{"id":21000,"date":"2013-12-24T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2013-12-24T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:26:48","slug":"deployment-day-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m definitely sick.<\/p>\n<p>Why this really matters, I&#8217;m not sure. Mom&#8217;s aren&#8217;t allowed to get sick. And when they do get sick, nothing changes.<\/p>\n<p>They still make meals, do laundry, shuttle kids around, break up fights, wipe faces, fix toys, pick up messes, and sweep floors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick enough to feel terrible, but not quite sick enough to sleep through Christmas. I&#8217;m doing all the usual Christmas cold sickness remedies, vitamins, lots of water, a only doing what needs to get done (which strangely takes the entire day).<\/p>\n<p>On a happier note, our package arrived today. We hurried home from a Christmas party to skype with dad so the kids could watch him open his gifts from us. In typical Christmas fashion he wanted the kids to open &#8220;just one present&#8221; today while he was opening his.<\/p>\n<p>How could I say no?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/christmasskype.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21003\" alt=\"christmasskype\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/christmasskype.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/christmasskype.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2013\/12\/christmasskype-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kids got to open one gift and that made their day. Well except Cora, who has entered the &#8220;every gift someone else gets is better than her own&#8221; phase of her life.<\/p>\n<p>The kids are getting excited about Christmas and I&#8217;m hoping that we can keep enough of our Christmas traditions to make things seem at least sort of normal around here. I&#8217;ve been dreading this day since I found out about the deployment, but I&#8217;ve realized that looking ahead doesn&#8217;t get me anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>One day at a time&#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>I&#8217;m definitely sick. 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