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Saturday, February 12, 2011

December Part 4 (The Good Part)

So December was a very stressful month if you didn't get that from my first three parts. And then there was Christmas too.

The holidays were good considering my husband wasn't here. We did get to Skype with him Christmas morning so he got to see the kids open all their gifts. And then him and I were able to open gifts together like we do every year as the kids sit around and play with new toys.

Oddly enough though, Christmas wasn't as depressing as Thanksgiving was for me.

What made it bearable though was this:

Yup, you guessed it! R&R. Three days after Christmas my hubby returned home for his two week R&R.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

December

So with December, brought it's own issues. Some old, some new.

I was still technically recovering from surgery. I still wasn't suppose to be driving but decided to anyway. I tried to take it easy - I really did; but life just sometimes didn't allow that to happen.

After about 4 weeks; I was allowed to start wearing a tennis shoe again. But ONLY tennis shoes, with ties. Do you know how limiting to your wardrobe it is to only be able to wear tennis shoes?

Luckily since I had planned on still being on crutches for the entire month of December, all of my holiday shopping was done. Of course that didn't stop me from buying more things here and there; but for the most part I was done.

But with the shopping done; it only left wrapping to do. Of all of the things holiday related - I least
expected wrapping to be one of the most depressing for me. Let me see if I can explain.

My husband and I have this kind of ritual. We sit down together to wrap presents several times throughout the month. My husband; he tries; but he is a very slow wrapper.

Wrapping is one thing I am definitely better at than him (and Wii Tennis) and I like to rub it in as much as possible. So at the end of each of our wrapping sessions; I like to tally up how many presents each of us has wrapped. It's normally something like 22 to 9! LOL!

Since there aren't too many things to boast about being better at than him; I take full advantage of this opportunity - especially since it only comes once a year.

But he wasn't here for any of that this year.

There was one night that I begged my friend Tiffany to help me wrap (and her wrapping tendencies are very similar to my husbands). We had fun but it just wasn't the same. Nothing can ever replace my husband.

To be continued....

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to the love of my life!

Since we can't be together, I thought I'd post pictures of us together during our honeymoon in Hawaii!

Love you honey! Hope you enjoyed our trip down memory lane!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Early Morning Calls

I'm very lucky that I get to Skype with my husband at least once a day as long as they aren't out on missions. Some of our conversations can be quite amusing.

Would you like to see why?

This is what a typical conversation with my hubby looks like during the morning (our late evening):

He wakes up and calls and we listen to the morning wake up call together:

He washes his face; I watch:

He brushes his teeth; I watch:

He shaves; I watch:

He drinks his morning coffee; I watch:

He blows me my good night kiss; I return with his good morning kiss:

Oh how I miss him! But even 6000+ miles away - he always knows how to make me smile!

(Thanks to my hubby for being a good sport as I snapped away taking pictures during our call the other morning!)

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Doctors and Countdowns, Oh My!

Tomorrow we continue our very long journey to hopefully finding some answers. If you missed it before or are new around here - you can read a little about it: here, here and here.

We go to see some of the best doctors in the state tomorrow and while I know I won't have any answers tomorrow, I'm hopeful that those answers will be right around the corner and we will see a much improved upon school year for my oldest son next year.

I know I've been hit or miss around here lately, but I'm really hoping to get a true update on our chaotic two weeks up sometime this week. Please bear with me as I attempt to figure out ways to deal with the stress and emotions, which seem to be coming at me left and right these days - all of which I'm sure many of you are experiencing as well.

(I know that's very vague. But I promise when the time is right, I'll give more details.)

Also - I haven't given an updated countdown recently. Today was day 91, the start of week 13! I'm so excited to see the days finally start to tick away. We are nearing day 100! And as I said before, Renee got me into celebrating every 25 days. This time I have plans in the making to spend a day at the spa! Massage, mani and pedi - here I come! (Really, I'm using a gift card from my birthday back in March but I'm using it to celebrate)

I really can't believe we are almost a quarter of the way done! When I put it into those terms it doesn't seem anywhere near as daunting. I can't wait to have my hubby back in my arms again!

PS. To my hubby: Missing you like crazy love! Love you mean it!

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Unthinkable

I can't begin to explain how much I miss my husband tonight. Some horror has struck my neighborhood tonight and really has me shaken up. I'm not going to go into details tonight - maybe not ever. At least until I know for sure I have all the facts straight.

Oh how I wish he could be here holding me tonight......

And not to worry anyone - my husband is fine, I'm fine and my kids are fine.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I Miss.....

Here are some snippets from a recent chat with my husband:

3:02 PM me: Miss your smile

Miss when you squint your eyes

Miss your touch

Miss your scent

3:03 PM

Miss you in bed with me

Miss your arms around me

3:04 PM Miss taking showers with you

Miss you rubbing my butt

Miss you scratching my back

3:05 PM Miss sitting around the fire with you

Miss playing cards

3:06 PM Miss your kisses

Should I keep going?

anthonylloyd1: you can it's making me smile

3:07 PM

me: Miss having to pick out clothes for you

3:08 PM Miss you folding laundry

Miss cooking with you

Miss snuggling on the couch with you

Miss watching Friends or House or Deadliest Catch with you.

3:09 PM anthonylloyd1: i miss....

3:10 PM anthonylloyd1: you rubbing my head while you read a book

miss cooking breakfast on the weekends

miss you yelling at me to stay on my side of the bed

3:11 PM miss you coming up behind me while I look out the front window

miss watching you try to pick out clothes at night

miss kissing you good bye in the morning

3:12 PM miss cuddling up to you at night

3:13 PM miss kissing your neck

miss you handing me my towel when I get out of the shower

3:14 PM miss cleaning the dishes after dinner

3:15 PM miss our quality time

miss holding your hand while I drive

I was crying by the end of it then, and I'm crying again now as I re-read all of them.

It's amazing all the little things you take for granted until you don't have them.

I miss you love! Hurry home!

Friday, May 21, 2010

It's Official....

He's there. On the boat. More to come later....

For now, I gotta get some sleep.....

Sunday, May 9, 2010

We Have a Visitor

Please excuse my lack of posting and commenting for the next few days as my husband is home on pass from the mob site for a couple days. I'm going to soak up as much of him as I can while he is home since all I'll have soon is Skype and email.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

All Is Good

Yes, sometimes all it takes for me are flowers.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I'm Feeling A Little Lighter Today

I'm sorry I haven't really been posting much. Although I'm irritated with myself for being sorry. When I started blogging again I told myself that I wouldn't pressure myself to have a post every day or even every couple days unless I had something I truly wanted to share. I didn't (and still don't) want to spend countless hours thinking of what I'm going to blog about next. I don't like or need any added pressure in my life these days.

Which gets back to the whole reason behind this post. The past couple weeks have been hard. I've really struggled with getting use to SF's new work schedule. Yes, he's still home - but a lot of times I still feel like a single parent. These days he's gone before we get up in the morning and there are some nights when he will still be taking working call at 11:30 at night! And considering this is the same man who use to turn his phone off the second he walked in the door - I'm struggling.

I get it! I really do. I understand that it's a necessary evil. But that doesn't mean that I like it or that I even really know how to deal with it.

And what I realized last night is that I can't continue to hold it all in. I need to vent. I need to get it all out. I use to hold it all in because I didn't want to take something I had no control over and blow it up into a huge ordeal which inevitably would turn into an argument.

We only have a few months of time left together and I don't want to argue it away. I've heard from many other military spouses that the last few months are before deployment are spent arguing and bickering over little things. I was determined not to be one of those. But I failed.

Hopefully now that everything is out in the open, we'll better be able to handle it. My shoulders are feeling a little lighter today as I woke up realizing that I've learned a valuable lesson. Yes, my life is changing around me and I have no control over it but it doesn't mean that I have to be quiet about it. I'm still allowed to have anger and frustrations and I'm still allowed and should be voicing my concerns over it. Holding it in doesn't help - it only makes it worse.

It's been a hard lesson to learn and hopefully I won't have to learn it more than once.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

A Perfect Ending to an Awesome Weekend

Toadmama is always proclaiming that her hubby is awesome - so I have to let everyone know that I have a pretty awesome hubby too! While he may not have all the fancy tools and may not make these, and he doesn't search for fodder for my blog - he sure does know how to cap off an awesome weekend.

But first the weekend (mine starts Thursday evening as I don't work on Friday's). Thursday night, Toadmama came over to hang out for TTT. We couldn't go anywhere since SF (aka my hubby) was out of town and the kids were sleeping so we hung out at the house with a few beverages and talked. It was great to catch up in person.

Then Friday evening I hosted fondue and wine night at my house. I really wish I would have remembered to get the camera out and take pictures. April, Jamie and Janelle came over with a variety of cookies, fruit, pretzels, pound cake, chocolate, breads, cheese and wine (and other drinks) and again the four of us sat around the table eating and laughing our asses off! A good time was had by all!

Saturday I packed the kids and drove to my best friends house in Pennsylvania to spend the night. The kids had an awesome time hanging out together (even though G got sick that evening) and Amber and I had just as much, if not more fun. Of course we had a ton to catch up on and we were up til almost 4am playing Wii bowling.

Needless to say, it was a little rough getting up Sunday morning to drive home. But we did it and got home around noon. SF was finally home as well and we laid the kids down for naps and promptly took naps ourselves!

So by now you're probably wondering what my husband being awesome has to do with all of this...especially since I didn't see him most of the weekend. Well, after dinner and after the kids were put to bed, SF ran a hot bath, lit the candles and told me to go relax with a book in the tub! Which I did! How awesome is that?

It was a perfect ending to an awesome weekend spent with family and friends.

OBSCENITY ALERT:

This Blog is my outlet. It's where I share my thoughts and feelings. It's a place where I can vent. Not everyone thinks alike. People don't always share the same religious or political views. Some people (like me!) occasionally think in more “colorful” terms than others. Sorry, but I'm a big girl and can use cuss words and talk about not-so-mainstream stuff if I want to. If you find that sort of language offensive / shocking / annoying, you may want to stop reading now. Life as a military wife ain't always pretty. It's my life, though, so don't say I didn't warn you.

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