Monday, July 22, 2013

Goals

One of my goals through this deployment is to keep this blog, obviously I'm not good at doing that so I'm going to try. I want to be able to look back at this and think wow I didn't just make it through this I really did awesome.

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 The ship officially pulled out of port today. So it's official and there's no going back. I got some pictures of them leaving from other truman spouses on FB. I'm kind of glad I didn't go down, I think it would be really hard to see them leave.

Photo: Mailed off Andrews first care package today for his birthday next week! If anyone wants his address let me know :-) 
 
I mailed his first care package this morning. It won't be there in time for his birthday but it'll be just a couple days late. There's lots of fun things in there but I don't want to post it cause he does get internet access sometimes and I wouldn't want him to look on here and have the surprises ruined. 
 
 
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Hunter is so sweet, he went upstairs and got some fake flowers out of my craft room and brought them down to me saying happy birthday mommy over and over. I love him.








Here's an article on the ship leaving earlier today. I did already get a phone call from him and I'm hoping to get another tonight. I'm ready for him to come home already!

So back to goals. I need some. Obviously like everyone else I want to lose weight but mostly just become healthier. I want to do a bunch of crafts. I have so many ideas! I love pinterest! I want to travel a lot. I'm going to the farm this weekend with my favorite people besides Andrew. I want to got to TX, NC and AZ for sure and visit family. I want to keep my house cleaner. Also be less lazy. Learn to be more patient with Hunter. I'm trying to figure out some more goals but I still don't know. The biggest thing I'm going to learn but I don't get a choice in it is to become more independent. I have been with Andrew since the day I turned 17 so I haven't really been alone ever. So I'm going to be independent. Exciting, Right? Oh, and get Mr Hunter potty trained!

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Getting this over with!



Our last family picture- Hunter was already sad, once he saw the sea bag by the door he knew what was going down. Also he only slept for 2 hours cause we let him stay up till 6am having family time.
 
Photo: Hunter doesn't want to wake up to say good bye. Guess that's what we get for all staying up till 6am. Ready to get this over so we can crawl back in bed
Hunter passed out on the 2 min car ride there. 


Andrew left for his deployment today. And as much as it sucks and it was awful saying goodbye I am so grateful to finally have it over with! I have been dreading this day for such a long time. It made me literally sick every time I thought about it. We even had the fake leaving back in February which was so hard and then they delayed it the day before they were supposed to leave. He's definitely leaving this time. But that means we get to get this over with. Bitter-sweet maybe? I don't know. Overall though today didn't go as bad as I thought it would. I would say the worst part was pulling Hunter off of Andrew while he was screaming and kicking cause he knew what would happen once he let go of Andrew. After they drove off in the van I had to carry Hunter back to the car while he was screaming and yelling at me saying he was mad at me and daddy was mean for leaving. But that is all done with and now we get to move on and get this over with. 

Andrews birthday is in a little over a week so we got him a care package put together and ready to ship in the morning. We even made him some of his favorite cookies. 

I love my little family so much and I am so grateful to be able to snuggle with little bear tonight!


Day 1 down!!