Time sure has a way of passing by......



I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything. Life continues to be crazy as the countdown continues on its downward spiral.



Lots has gone on in the month of March and the first weeks of April. Anthony continues to have ear infections and a runny nose. He has seen the Ear Nose and Throat Dr on several occasions. It has been determined that the best way to stop the constant infections is to remove the adenoids and tonsils, the Dr will also put tubes in both ears to release the fluid that has accumulated with each infection. Thankfully this will not be done until after Allen has returned home.

Abigail continues to be her funny, silly self. She loves her gymnastics class as well as her water safety class. She is getting taller but refuses to put on any bulk!! Anthony will be bigger than she is by the end of the year!

Allyson....well she is Allyson. Truly her mother's child. As moody and anti social as they come!! haha She is highly intelligent and can hardly wait to start school. She tested into Soaring Eagles Elementary, it has an accelerated learning program. I hope it is everything I have read about and then some. She is very excited about starting school, a little upset that she won't be riding a bus to school. We will have to drive her, since the school is not our "home school."

As for me.....I am here. Trying to get through school and trying to deal with Allen being gone. At some point you would think this would get easier. This isn't the first time we have been apart, nor will it be the last. Yet, after all this time it is still hard. Days are easy to get through, between the kids, college, the dogs and housework I can fill a day and never think twice. The worst are evenings, nights, and mornings....you spend your quiet time alone, you go to bed alone and in the morning you wake up alone. Through it all you wait. You wait for a phone call, an email, or a date of when they "might" be home. You hang onto the moments you get; the sound of him laughing on the phone, the way he says "I love you" before he hangs up the phone. Still you wait....

You watch your babies do things you know would make him laugh. You cook his favorite meals...because you like them too. You sleep in his t-shirt since it makes you feel close to him. You mess up his side of the bed just so it doesn't look so lonely.



People look and wonder how I, as an Army wife, keep it all together. The truth is....I don't know. I just do. I am not the only one that manages to keep things in order. There are days that I don't even want to get out of bed. Not because I don't want to face the day. I just don't want to go to bed alone, again. But in the end, I get up, I put on a smile and I get through it. Everyday that passes is one day more that we are apart, but it is one day closer to when we will get to see each other again. We have managed to get through 173 days there are 23 days left on this roller coaster named, deployment. We will get through the next three weeks like we have gotten through all the ones that have passed, on faith and love.