Right back up again

Thank goodness!

So, today was insane. We had a rough one to start out. Icky rain and inside staring at each other and all that jazz.

Thankfully, the rain cleared and we went outside. It was good for everyone. Bedtime came and things went smoothly, it was atually kinda scary! Just in time for a new routine in PA, eh? HA. I'll take it.

As for today...Memorial Day. Totally surreal that my husband is spending it in Iraq. I mean, he's not there as a soldier, but.... he's still standing up for his country, and we're so proud of him. Memorial Day has always been important in my life. My father was military, and we have so many friends who are active duty and reservists. But this one....this one was weird. It was so much more real and so much more meaningful.

After going though almost a month of this deployment, I can honestly say that I can't even begin to IMAGINE what military families are going through! We only have to do this for 4 months, and we get to email him and talk to him almost every day. We even get to video conference once a month.

It's starting to actually worry me. What this country will be like for my girls. The disconnect that so many children will have to their parents who have been deployed. All of the therapy tha they will no doubt need for having to grow up worrying about parents in the war zone 2 and 3 times. These are kids that my girls will be best friends with and marry and have their own families with.

I'm nervous. It's not good. No matter what I think of the war and if we should be there, there's got to be a better way. These poor people are having their lives totally ruined...and yes, it is that bad.