It has come earlier than we expected but it has come. Pinwheels has received notification he is leaving for deployment before the year is out. A few details are different this time: this time is longer and in a different country. One thing that is the same: looks like Pinwheels will miss Christmas. It’s not [...]
I have been keeping Pinwheels to myself. He arrived home safely almost a month ago now and I have been mean and not shared his return with you. He arrived home a day late and rested so we had a great time taking him to lunch. We spent a few days just being a family [...]
Pinwheels has less than 3 weeks to go in the desert. 4 months is a long time and it’s almost over. Yay!
Peanut asked me every day for a week after Christmas if we were getting Daddy the following day. We finally made paper chains so we can keep track of the days [...]
Pinwheels has hit the halfway mark of his deployment. Less than 70 days to go.
Yay!
Sorry for the nonexistent posting. You know it’s bad when your deployed spouse is blogging intermittently and it’s more blogging than you do. So, I will try to do better.
The last 2 weeks we have been sick. The kids got sick first and then I got sick. Well, I started to [...]
I received a phone call from Pinwheels at lunchtime today. He has made it safely to his final destination. He arrived yesterday to find his boss (and friend) waiting for him. He already had a tent assigned where he sleeps and the food at the chow hall is very good. He [...]
Pinwheels left for his deployment on Monday morning. The kids enjoyed the ride on the train to the airport and they had fun looking at the airplanes but they don’t understand the complexity or dangers or what their dad is going to do. They just know he’s going to the desert to go [...]