Counting Down

We are into our final days of waiting to see if John will be deployed with this new unit out of Chisholm, MN. We are supposedly finding out by this Friday, but this is just killing me. It is so frustrating to just sit and wait for the phone to ring.

John keeps telling me we will find out sometime during the week, but it is the military and they are not ones to put your emotions in front. We had a long talk this afternoon about the timing of this and I would rather have just had him leave with his old unit. Now it will be sometime between now and next year.

It was at that moment that I realized if he was still with his old unit his departure would be in just over a week. I am nowhere near being prepared for this deployment, even with over 8 months of knowing and getting mentally prepared. The good thing about all of this, the kids have not mentioned a thing about it since the day we told them.

Although the day involved talk of deployment, I spent the afternoon with Max, my oldest, hanging out and making a very special trip to meet some very special puppies. We went to meet 6, four week old, Yorkshire Terriers. They were the most adorable puppies you have ever seen. I have never been privileged enough to see a puppy at such a young age, but a relative of a co-worker has been breeding puppies since a very young age and invited me over to his home to meet the little bundles of fur. Max was surrounded by 4 little pups who crawled right into his lap and fell fast asleep. It was such a great day. After the meeting, Max and I, at his request, had lunch at White Castle.

It is after days like today, that you realize how much your children have grown. The manners Max had when entering a strangers home, made me just beam with pride. He was kind and gentle with the puppies and talked when spoken to, not just got shy and turn away.

When we got home, he went to find his brother and sister to see what they were up to and the house was quiet and peaceful.

The night ended with the kids eating dinner and sitting down to watch a movie and John and I, for the first time in a long time eating dinner alone with a conversation about life. It was a good day! Just six more to go to hopefully an answer!