Upsetting news

My husband came home with upsetting news last night. He is at the top of the list for a deployment to Afganistan. I know this is a fact of life as a military life but it still upsets me because the past few years he has been on 4 deployments and lots of mini deployments. We are on shore duty now so usually it is not a worry about deployment. I know a lot of other wives out there are going through the same thing and some have even lost their husbands, so I shouldn't complain.

I just feel sad and I just don't want him to go this time. This shore duty was partially chosen by us, so that he could get to know the kids again. If no one else at his command volunteers for this then he will be selected because he is most junior at the command. We ahven't mentioned anything to the children yet because I don't want to upset them unnessecarily. When and if we know more details then we will have to sit them down. Right now I am just praying someone else wants the extra pay for going over there, enough to volunteer. Selfish of me I know, but it is what it is.

Katherynism's

My 5 year old Katheryn, received a 35 mm camera for her birthday. Of course she is used to my digital camera and having an never ending film supply. She went through the 24 shots very quickly, and now she wants to to shopping and buy more "clicks" for her camera. Her distinct way of describing things always tickles me.

A good day

Today we celebrated two of our daughter's birthdays. Normally we celebrate each birthday individually, but we have had party after party recently and we being military only know a few people at our new station and my almost 2 year old doesn't care when her party is. I say overall it was a raging success. We had two other families here with a total of 11 kids not including my own. 17 kids can eat a lot of cake! I say 17 although we had 18 because the baby is still far to young to eat cake. Pinata time was probably the highlight of the party. We had two pinatas and boy, I think we have some future major league players in our midst. They busted those things to high heaven. 2 cakes and 5 gallons of ice cream did not last long! It was such a hot day at 107 degrees that as soon as the pinata scavenge was over, they were back inside sucking down ice water and ice cream just to cool off.

At the end of the day my children were happy and exhausted which means they might let their parents sleep in a bit tomorrow although I doubt it. This weekend has been one event after the other. Last night we went on hot air balloon rides at a Balloon festival. Granted we were tethered and only got to go up about 15-20 feet, my children were still thrilled. This morning before the party they got to go to a church carnival. VBS is coming soon and they can not wait to be green comets and red rockets.



I like this new duty station. We have met such a nice group of people at church and we have wonderful neighbors to boot. I wish our time here could be longer than the 3 years we are assigned. The best thing about it is that my husband will not be going on long deployments while we are here. It is nice to have another adult around. 7 months or longer as a single parent is rough. It takes a mental and physical toll on you no matter how few or how many children you have. I know my thoughts are rambling. It is difficult to stick to one subject on a first blog because you question should you just plug right in and bare all or should you only give up to date blogs? I think mine will be a bit of both. More like an online thought filterer. If that [ filterer] is even a word. Well I suppose I will sign off for now. If you read it and are bored to tears, sorry! If you read it and wonder why I am still sane? Well the answer is by the grace of God and a having a wonderful mother as a role model of the virtue of Patience. god bless my mother. She deserves it and many other wonderful things.