SO, I meant to post something sooner than now. (two 1/2 months later), but I forgot how to do it. And THEN, I forgot to do it at all!
Life is good though!
Very good.
We have received orders to go to HAWAII! We will be leaving sometime in November. Our kids have never seen the ocean, and boy are they going to get a good look now! It will be quite the adventure.
Paul has been gone for 5 months now, and will be home in 39 days!!!!!!!!!!! We are soooo giddy and excited and all that good stuff!
I was fortunate enough to be able to fly down and see him over labor day weekend and spend four wonderful and glorious days together with the love of my life!
It was funny to me, that as I drove to pick him up that first morning, I was SO nervous. I kept telling myself "Why in the world am I nervous about this?!?! I have been with this amazing man for 13 years!!!!!!!!!!!" and yet, I was still nervous. Paul was too.
What an awesome thing to get to hug him after so long without him. I fully understand that many people have gone a lot longer than that without seeing their spouse. I also Know that longer separations are in our future. However, it was wonderful and exciting!
Confession: I had been waiting in the car for about 10 minutes, watching many soldiers walk by, before Paul came out. I did not recognize him at first glance. He was in uniform, just like everyone else, and has lost weight, and it only took me a second, but it was enough to make us both laugh.
He looks so great. Every day he is sending sweet text messages telling me how grateful he is for me and how much he loves me. I never knew that being around a bunch of dorky guys would bring out the romance in my husband that I never knew existed :-) ha ha
He constantly amazes me. I am so in love with my husband. This is a good thing. With every cloud always comes a silver lining also, and we are seeing those. Yes, there is still a cloud, but it's a tolerable cloud.
I'm including some fun pictures of me and my hunny from our Labor Day reunion.
I must also mention, that it is the first vacation we have EVER taken together ALONE since having kids. We have gone to a couple business meetings and family things. But we have never gotten this much alone time in a row. (and I still had to turn him back in every night to his platoon)
It's kind of sad really. But it reminded us that we should try to do this more often than once every twelve years!
