Today started out terribly. I won’t got into details, but let’s just say we’ve all had better days around here.
I finally gave up around 4pm and decided we were headed to the library. A room full of free books makes everything better, right?
The library definitely turned things around for everyone. We had a great time and the kids checked out almost 100 books!
I can only hope this will make up for all the science lessons we haven’t been completing lately.
For the past two years I haven’t slept much every night. The good thing is that I don’t really need a lot of sleep, but lately I haven’t been able to fall asleep until after 2am. Since I like to get up before 6am, this is not a good thing. Waking up later puts me behind for the entire day.
My mind just doesn’t want to turn off at night. At some point I’ll probably reset due to exhaustion, and I’m hoping that time comes soon!
The girls had fun messaging their dad on Facebook today. They love all those silly smiley faces you can send via chat.
We decided to send some real life smiley faces over chat too.
All this randomness to say, if your day stinks- get out of the house. Sometimes you just need a change of scenery!
My husband has been deployed to the Middle East for 274 days. These are my real thoughts expressing my heart during his absence. I appreciate your prayers and kind words as we cope, adapt, and carry on without him until August 2014. To read from the beginning, click here.
Serenity says
I have been reading this series since the beginning but never commented. My dad was in the Air Force and went to Saudi during Operation Desert Shield, twice. Until I followed your series I never understood how hard it was on my mom. She had to handle all sorts of things without my dad and I never truly gave it much thought. Last year my husband went back to school for an RN to Paramedic. He was hired as a flight nurse and they also have to be medics:). It was a truly crazy year and I whined and cried the whole way through. I remember talking to my mom about my stress many times and now I feel incredibly foolish ( as I should). Sure my husband was only off about 10 days that year BUT he was home for an hour or two most days. And when he was flying in a helicopter it was not over hostile territory (unless you consider Detroit hostile:). I called my mom the other day and told her about your series and how much it has made me appreciate her . Thank you for writing about this. Thank you for the sacrifice families like you make so that we can be free!