{"id":20840,"date":"2013-12-04T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20840"},"modified":"2013-12-04T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:43:02","slug":"deployment-day-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we drove around town tonight and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice all the lights and Christmas decorations. They are in stores, along the streets, and Christmas music is playing everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the Christmas music, my daughter has been playing it since Halloween. This is my favorite time of year. The only time when I am able to tolerate winter. For some reason, being cold in December makes sense. Being cold in March doesn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>With all the lights, decorations, and music I couldn&#8217;t help but think about how much I miss our whole family being together this month. We were apart last year until the day before Christmas, and we were apart two years before that.<\/p>\n<p>Decorating the tree, making cookies, and trying to eat all the leftovers without dad is sad. Although, I know for him there will be no tree, no decorations, and no leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas just isn&#8217;t the same without our family together. My older kids are getting old. I&#8217;m realizing that we might not have many more Christmases together with just our a family. I realize there is nothing I can do about this Christmas, but I want this one to be our last as a family apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/tree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20841\" alt=\"tree\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/tree.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/tree.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/tree-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/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>As we drove around town tonight and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice all the lights and Christmas decorations. 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