Gone Again

So R is gone, again. I was doing the math the other day and in the last 9 1/2 years he has been gone a little over 5 of them. Between Deployments, training and TDY. I will not turn this into a poor me post. I feel bad that he has missed so much of the kids growing up. He is missing E's whole senior year, he hopefully will be home for her graduation. Then he will go back and miss taking her to college.

Mean while back at the bat cave, life keeps going. We are busy with football games, practices, work and unit activities. I hate being so busy but it does make the time go by fast. Before I know it he will be home for R&R and then not long after he goes back we will be gearing up for their return. Such is the life of an Army family.

Who blogs anymore????

I love to read my friends blogs. I am the first to admit that I really am not a great blogger and sometimes wonder if anyone even reads it.
Now there is this face book thing. I do have a face book account or whatever they call it, but to tell the truth I really don't have a clue of what to do with it. I read stuff people put on there but I can't really get into it. For one thing I am on the computer all day and the last thing I want to do at night is get online with my slow computer and try and figure out how to use it.
I kind of feel strange even having the thing since my teenage daughters are into it. Plus the fact that R would throw a fit if I came home from work and went and got on the computer. Maybe when he goes back to the sand box I will try and figure it out.

Wow here we are almost to the middle of July! I can't believe how fast time goes by, even more so when you want it to go slow. R will be leaving again for the sand box. I have such anxiety about this. I have known too many people that's lives have change dramatically with a deployment. I made the comment to a friend of ours from Germany that was here a few months ago. I told him that every time R goes on a deployment I feel like we are playing Russian roulette and adding a bullet to the mix. I hate to have these feelings but I can't help it. I am a very superstitious person. So I look back on the other deployments and what has happened. I know I need to suck it up and drive on, and I am sure I will, I always do.

So we are trying to just enjoy all the time we have together and our Summer. We are maximizing our lake time and camping time. Plus just the being at home together time.

Another me

I love Summer! I love to hang out at the lake. I love to go camping, of course this is mostly due to the fact that we have a camper. I love to have people over for BBQ's. I love to swim, ride bikes (both kinds). I love that it stays light so late.

But even though I love all these things it seems like I never have enough time to do everything I want to do. This is probably due to the fact that during Summer the laundry loads increase and since I never want to be in the house the house work just piles up. This is truly the time when I wish I had a wife! Not in any perverted way! Just someone that would do all the stuff I don't want to make time for. Wouldn't it be great to come home from work and have dinner on the table? Go to your closet in the morning and all your clothes are ironed? Never search for a shirt, shorts, ect to see if they are clean? No you just open up the drawer and there it all is, nice and clean and folded. Going to the fridge and or cupboard and finding it full of food. Never running out of toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, shampoo, conditioner, Q-tips, toothpaste or any other basic things?!

So my thought for the day is "I need a wife", as the song goes, "another me in my life."

18 already??

So my little girl is graduating a week from Sunday. Where does the time go? One minute she is a little bundle of joy sleeping in my arms the next she is a young lady ready to go out on her own.

I am ready for her to go, I think. Some days more than others. I am a firm believers that the reason teenagers act the way they do is so it will be easier for you to let them go. I will admit that some days I would help her pack.

Of course she is the first to leave and I am sure since I will still be busy with the other two it will be easier. I still have 10 years till the little man goes. I laugh at myself and think I could almost be done..............but I wouldn't trade any of them.

Here is one of her Senior pictures.

Antoher Year Older

So Saturday was my birthday. I usually don't get upset over birthdays. No big deal getting older. You know the saying like fine wine I just get better with age. Well this year it was different. I don't know if it is because this is my last "30" birthday or because it coincided with a full moon and R was in the field.

I don't think I look old, I don't feel old. OK some days I feel old and some days I think I look really old. But for the most part I think I am doing OK.

Since R was in the field my girlfriend took me out to dinner and then we went out for drinks after. OK she had some drinks and I had water, now there's a sign of aging!! We did have a good time and I am glad we went. Just another reason girlfriends are so important!

No time to blog

I read several blogs, and it is funny that they are all saying the same thing right now. They are still around just to busy to blog. Usually I read blogs everyday but do not post very often. I guess I just don't think anything that I have going on in my life anyone would be to terribly interested in reading.

I'm busy with work at my new/old position. It is going great. It took me a whopping 3 days before I was back in the swing of things. The kids are busy, but things have slowed down a bit with them. I am still stressing about S graduating this year. E is working and getting ready for Dance Team tryouts. S is still full of energy and tests my patients daily. Hubby should be home today after being gone for two weeks. He will be home for about 6 days and then back out the field for 8 days. He will be gone this year for my birthday, which he tells me doesn't count if he is not here for it. So yeah for me I don't age this year!!! I won't age next year either since he will be deployed!!!

We thought Spring was on it's way here since we were have 65+ degrees but then mother nature decided to change her mind and we had snow late Friday night!!! Not to much but it was cold all weekend. I am so happy we have a fire lace. Nothing better than sitting in front of the fire place and watching movies all weekend!!