{"id":21072,"date":"2014-01-06T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=21072"},"modified":"2014-01-06T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:19:58","slug":"deployment-day-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #68"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not having a birthday is so much better.<\/p>\n

Today I decided to stop trying to be everything and decided to just be.<\/p>\n

There was a lot of stuff that needed to get done that didn’t get done. Tons.<\/p>\n

But when I tucked my girls in bed, my nine-year-old said to me,<\/p>\n

“Today seemed like the days we had when daddy was here, fun.”<\/p>\n

I kissed her on the cheek and promised her tomorrow would be the same.<\/p>\n

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He wanted to make his leftover dinner seem like a restaurant dinner. Don’t worry that’s grape juice.<\/p><\/div>\n

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":"

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