{"id":21077,"date":"2014-01-07T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=21077"},"modified":"2014-01-07T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:05:47","slug":"deployment-day-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/deployment-day-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment Day #69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a great day. We got all our school finished, the kids played, read books, and generally had a good day.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had bags of leaves in our backyard for two months, or so. For some reason I decided that today was the day to get them to the curb. So my big boys took care of it. And since we are from Florida one of them thought wearing a hoodie would be sufficient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21078\" alt=\"379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2014\/01\/379758_10202121793660572_1005457868_n-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There he is curled up under my desk by the heating vent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really cold here. Since I get cold at any temperature below 72 I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m not going outside until April, maybe May. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how that is going to work, but that&#8217;s my plan.<\/p>\n<p>I finally feel like I&#8217;m over the funk I&#8217;ve been in for the last few weeks. Nothing has really changed except my attitude which I guess is all that needed to change in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll open my birthday presents tomorrow&#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>Today was a great day. 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