{"id":20771,"date":"2013-11-21T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:31:12","slug":"deployment-day-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three weeks since he left. The days fly by but the weeks are creeping. In all the years with all the TDY&#8217;s and deployments this will be our first Thanksgiving apart in eighteen years.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t really big Thanksgiving celebrators (if that&#8217;s what you call it). For years we didn&#8217;t even cook a turkey, we had pizza.<\/p>\n<p>When we lived in West Virginia our Thanksgiving pizza tradition was replaced with a Thanksgiving hunting tradition. We won&#8217;t be hunting this year as I have no desired to clean a deer by myself.<\/p>\n<p>I think my boys are bummed about it, but they have a good idea in spite of it all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of my boys. They&#8217;ve all stepped up in one way or another. I know this is hard on them, really hard.<\/p>\n<p>They miss their dad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20783\" alt=\"hunting\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/11\/hunting1-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My husband has been deployed to the Middle East for 274 days.\u00a0 These are my real thoughts expressing my heart during his absence.\u00a0 I appreciate your prayers and kind words as we cope, adapt, and carry on without him until August 2014.\u00a0 To read from the beginning, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/tag\/deployment-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three weeks since he left. 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