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I have a lot to post about. First off I have heard from Kris, he is doing OK. I can't tell you to much of what he is doing because of OPSEC. I do have a mailing address for him, if you would like it let me know and I will email it out to you.

Kris and I have chatted a few times on facebook and every time I hear from him it, makes my day. We usually get to chat for approx 30 mins, and he likes to hear stories about the boys. One of his favorites were on morning before my trip to my mum's house, I had out one of those c shaped travel pillows. Kyle put it around his waist and asked to hold Baby Josh. He was imitating me using the bobby pillow. I thought it was so sweet. Kyle is turning out to be such a good big brother.

We spent the last two weeks at my Mum's house. We had a great Easter, I will post more on this later.

Joshua is getting big. He really likes to be upright. He likes to lapstand. My only issue with this is that his little legs are turning blue when he does this. Has anyone else experienced this? Should I really concerned? I am going to mention this at next weeks well baby visits. Joshua is going in for his 4 month appt. Kyle is going in for his 4 year appt. Wow how time is flying by.

Thanks everyone for being so supportive. I have needed it. Your words cheer me up.

Thats all I have for now I am working on a few posts for this week so check back.

So Hard.

So I am missing Kris pretty bad. I haven't heard from him since he landed in Kuwait. Its hard when I am hearing from some of my friends that they are hearing from their husbands everyday. I know they are excited to hear from them and want to share the news, but sometimes I wish that they would keep it to themselves. I want to hear from him so badly, when they tell me that they have been hearing from their husbands and then ask if I have heard from Kris, it hurts when I have to say no. I have one friend that keeps on pestering me on why I think he hasn't called. I want to just burst out in tears. I wish she would just drop it. How do let her know that I just don't want to talk about it?

Also since I am the FRG (family readiness group) leader, I have been fielding the calls from other wives that they haven't heard from their husbands. What do they really think that I can do about it? Do people think that I can just call up my own husband and get theirs to call them? I am in the same exact boat as they are. If truth be told my husband probably has less down time then theirs.

Sorry for my rant. I just need to get that off of my chest. Let me know if you have any suggestions on how I can deal with the other wives. I know that a couple of you have been in my position before.

Laundry

This morning while stripping the sheets off of my bed I debated on whether I would wash his pillow cases. Is that kind of Gross? In the end I did strip them, as somehow in the middle of the night my husband seems to scrunch up the pillow slip. so half of the pillow is sticking out. I have no idea how he does this, but every night he does.
So tonight I will sleep on clean sheets, without the smell of my husband. And so the year of being lonely begins.

So Sweet

So I am going to post a few catch up posts since I have been slacking for the past few months.

When my mother was staying with us over Christmas/ the birth of Joshua. Kyle went into my Mothers room, and climbed into bed with her. Usually we would discourage this behavior, but he didn't do it to spend the night with her, he brought he a flashlight. He showed her how to use it. And told her it was for if she got scared. I thought this was so sweet.

Again

So Kris has deployed again. This is his 4th deployment to Iraq. I think I am handling it OK. I guess I have to now that I have two children to take care of. Saying good bye was hard. When Kyle told his daddy that he loved him it broke my heart that Kris was leaving us. Over the past year Kris and Kyle have gotten pretty close.

I made Kyle a daddy doll (action figure that's what Kris wants me to call it). He has been carrying it around. Last night we went to go pick you dinner Kyle had to bring his "my daddy" along with him. When we were leaving the house he said that my daddy was cold so he put him up his shirt. He took my daddy to bed with him last night also. Its really sad to think about this. Kyle made me kiss my daddy this morning, and is now downstairs playing with my daddy in the basement.

I am going to ask you all again to please pray for Kris' safety. For my sanity, and for the year to go by quickly. Thanks.

Bad Bad Blogger

So this year I have been a very bad bad blogger. Sorry. I hope you all can forgive me. Lately I have been pretty busy. Not just running around after Kyle, and being a new mother again looking after Joshua. I have been sleep deprived. I have been house hunting. House buying. Appliance shopping. Furniture shopping. And FRGing.

Yes you read that this year we decided to buy a house. I called a realtor teed up some times to look at houses, and fell in love with the 4th house that I looked at. A week later we made an offer, and it was accepted. We were concerned, as another buyer put in a offer before we got ours in. Can you believe that? In this market two offers on the same house in the same week.

Well I guess ours was a better offer, and we won. We close on our house this week. I am very excited, this will be Kris' and my first home that we own. So since this new house does not come with a refrigerator, I had to go buy one. I never really paid much attention to prices on fridges, buy they are expensive, but we can live without one.

Also since our house that we are buying is bigger than where we currently live, we will be needing new furniture. First on the list is Kyle's room. His new room is smaller than his current room, so we have decided to downsize his furniture. We went bunk bed shopping this weekend. I haven't ordered it yet, but I think I have selected one. His current furniture will be going into our guest room. What a novel idea, having a guest room. This will be our first guest room since we had Kyle in 2006.

Next on the list of things to shop for will be more living room furniture, computer desks, and maybe a new TV and hot tub. Lots of things coming up. I will post pictures of the new house soon. I just want you all to know that I am very excited, and I am very sorry for being a bad blogger.

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