{"id":20945,"date":"2013-12-19T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=20945"},"modified":"2013-12-19T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:11:35","slug":"deployment-day-50-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-50-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas cards. I love getting them. Even the annoying ones where the people list off all their awesome accomplishments for the year and gloss over the bad stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I usually send Christmas cards (photos), but I haven&#8217;t for the past two years. Last year we had just moved into our house and I couldn&#8217;t find our silverware, let alone a family photo. And this year&#8230; well, you know.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that because we&#8217;ve moved and I haven&#8217;t sent cards we aren&#8217;t getting very many cards this year.<\/p>\n<p>I never really realized how much I like getting cards until they stopped coming. (By the way- this isn&#8217;t a post to guilt all of you who know me to send me a card, seriously)<\/p>\n<p>Then it got me thinking about how there are probably people like me who like getting cards, but now aren&#8217;t getting one from me.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Christmas card sender- it isn&#8217;t too late to send them out. Who cares if they arrive after Christmas? There are probably lots of people who would love to see a picture of your family, an update, or even just a simple Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In other news we are out of tape to wrap gifts. My kids have started using packing tape to wrap presents because we have plenty of that&#8230;.<\/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>Christmas cards. I love getting them. Even the annoying ones where the people list off all their awesome accomplishments for the year and gloss over the bad stuff. I usually send Christmas cards (photos), but I haven&#8217;t for the past two years. 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