{"id":20788,"date":"2013-11-23T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20788"},"modified":"2013-11-23T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:32:23","slug":"deployment-day-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #24"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realized one of the things my kids were missing is fun. In our house Dad is the fun one. He makes brownies for breakfast, takes them to Chuck E Cheese for no reason, and will rent and watch movies just because they asked.<\/p>\n

In fact, my kids look forward to me traveling because they know they’ll get an extra dose of fun.<\/p>\n

Even though he’s been gone for 24 days, he was at training before that with a short break in the middle, so we’re really going on about two months.<\/p>\n

To try to make up for “fun dad” being gone I started weekly dinners out. Now I have to admit this is mostly for me so I don’t have to cook and we can eat vegetables, but the kids look forward to it and I let them vote and pick the restaurant.<\/p>\n

So if you are reading this Commander, all your special deployment pay is going towards our weekly dinners, this week they picked Outback. \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

After we went to dinner we went shopping at Target. I had a few things I needed to get and instead of rushing in and out of the store, like I normally do we lingered and I let them spend way too long in the toy aisle making their Christmas wish list, looking at books, and trying out the electronics.<\/p>\n

It was a really fun day.<\/p>\n

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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, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realized one of the things my kids were missing is fun. In our house Dad is the fun one. He makes brownies for breakfast, takes them to Chuck E Cheese for no reason, and will rent and watch movies just because they asked. In fact, my kids look forward to me traveling because they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[785,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-20788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-military","7":"tag-deployment","8":"tag-deployment-2013","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20790,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions\/20790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}