{"id":20844,"date":"2013-12-05T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20844"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:36:44","slug":"deployment-day-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent some time in the car with my seventeen year old son. It isn&#8217;t very often that I have alone time with my older kids since they both work and have a pretty full social life.<\/p>\n<p>I like this kid.<\/p>\n<p>Not just because he&#8217;s a lot like me, we can sit in silence for extended periods of time without it being awkward or thinking something is wrong and then pick up a conversation out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the one who has shown the most levelheadedness since his dad has been gone. When I get upset with the kids he&#8217;s kindly asked me to consider why I&#8217;m upset.<\/p>\n<p>The other day he came home from a meeting and I was upset with him because his bathroom was a wreck. When he walked into my room I let him know how disappointed I was in the room.<\/p>\n<p>After I was finished with my lecture he didn&#8217;t say anything. I asked him if he thought I was being too hard on him. He told me that it was hard to walk into my room and get reprimanded before even saying hello.<\/p>\n<p>He was right.<\/p>\n<p>He could have stormed off, yelled back, or just shut down. But he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This kid isn&#8217;t perfect, in fact he&#8217;s given me more than a few gray hairs.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m so proud of how he has handled all of this. There are so many bright spots in this deployment, I hope to share them all before it is over.<\/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>Today I spent some time in the car with my seventeen year old son. It isn&#8217;t very often that I have alone time with my older kids since they both work and have a pretty full social life. I like this kid. 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