Back again

I have been away from the puter for a couple of days, but I am back. The kids are already feeling much better. They have been enjoying the warm weather and so have I. My husband wound up calling me almost every day for a week, it felt so good to hear his voice. He would call me a 2 in the morning and inevitably the first question from him was always was "what cha doing". The answer was always sleeping and he would always chuckle at me. In the last couple of days I have had to deal with my oldest child flunking a class in 5th grade. So far he can't play any video games (which kills him) and I have taken all of the toys from his room. My son is a little mad at me right now. Oh well.

felling better today

I had a brush with the flu, boy did I feel like shit. My husband called me again at 2:30 in the morning. I am feeling like the luckiest woman in the world. This is the most I have heard from him sence he left. I don't have to much to say tonight just checking in.

My lucky day

I received another call from my husband at 6 in the morning. He seems to be in a pretty good mood. He told me today that I am to get fertility testing done to see if we can have a child. He is tired of me wavering on wanting to have another child. My husband is not biologically my children's dad but he should have been. He has no children of his own so I will do what I need to do to make this happen. I was on cloud nine. I don't normally hear from Jeff in so many times in just a couple of days, don't think I'm complaining. I would spend all day at the computer if I thought that Jeff would talk to me more. In this deployment Jeff has only sent one letter home and I get a call about once a month. I know that he has a job over there, but I have a job here to. He protects our freedoms, and I am working with some of the next generation of soldiers more than likely so that they can see the good and the bad in dad's choice of careers.

Got a call

I received a call from my husband at 3:00 in the morning. He has regained some of the hearing in his left ear. The eardrum wasn't shattered like was first thought, but still has some hearing loss. Aside from that he is doing fine. He misses the kids and I. We are under the half way point in this deployment. I will be so glad when this deployment is over, we have lost to many good guys in the last 3 years.
The kids are looking forward to 10-12 days of spring break with their great-grandparents. I try to keep the facts away from my children as much as I possibly can. Sometimes I succeed sometimes I don't. It is hard sometimes to keep the information from them as they see me upset and crying. I know that they are old enough to understand, but I want them to still have faith in the people of the world.

another day another lifetime

Took 2 of my children to the dr's today. Talk about a blast....NOT. Turns out that my daughter and oldest son have upper respitory infections. Of course they will be fine, but it is hard to hear my daughter coughing so hard it sounds like she is trying to hack up a lung. My middle son is mad at me because I had said I would take them all to the indoor pool today. Didn't happen of course but he blames me for bub and sis being ill.
I still haven't heard anything more from my hubby concerning his hearing loss. I had talked to the read detachment they said that if my husband can't hear he should be on light duty, but he hasn't contacted me. I know he is busy doing his job. I am used to not hearing from him for 3 to 4 weeks at a time when he is ok. I was hoping the military would at least keep him close enough to instant message me even if all it said was "I'm ok". His being injured even in a small way has made it hard to not think about the danger he is in every second of every day. My husband's company has lost at least 6 guys sence they left in oct. of last year, they have had numerous injuries. Up until now I have felt the pain of the other families and been able to shut it away. With Jeff getting hurt I can't just make it go away anymore.

good evening all

Well I made it back today I guess that is somewhat of a start. Right now I have 2 sick children. I have to deal with Blanchfield in the morning, yeehaw. I have been somewhat of a funk latly. My husband called a week and a day ago to tell me that he is deaf in his left ear. He got to close to a mortar round. I have been worried out of my mind about him. I am so thankful that it was something as small as his hearing, but at the same time this is the man I love I don't want him to hurt. I was hoping that my hubby would call and update me today. The dr's are saying that he should recover some of his hearing in 2 to 3 weeks. I haven't told our children it is bad enough that I worry. My 9 year old son would be balling if I told him his dad got hurt. The kids keep asking me how long until dad comes home and all I can give them is a ballpark time. We have a cute little chalkboard that allows you to write in the days left "until our hero come home" ours says to many.

A first time for everything

This is the first time I have ever tried to create a blog, please bear with me. I have so many things that I want to say. For those of you who don't know my husband is a 502nd infantryman in Iraq with the 101st airborne. This is the second year he is in the desert. It is not easy for the kids and I.