7 Days since daddy left......

Well tomorow is exactly a week since Jake left, and it's been a rough and tiring one. The first day being the most tiring one! It just so happened his flight was delayed and he left at 4am on the 1st.....which happened to be field day....which this momma had volunteered for thinking daddy would be gone! So of course the night before we stayed up talking, canoodling and, such and fell asleep around 0200.
0430 we arrive at the airport.
0630 we see him though security and give our hugs and kisses.
0700 home trying to fall asleep
0800 my head jerks from the alarm going off we are late field day is beginning in 30 minutes
0830 i get a dirty look as i am signing in and realize i don't have my i.d. run back to the car...
0900 i am volunteered to race my son in push ups....ha ha ha real funny! I pathetically push out 29!
1400 i explain to the kids mommy needs a nap so i leave and go home to nap for an hour and a half before the boys get home only for the phone to ring......
1430 my husband graciously allows me off the phone to let me get some rest....
1645 the boys come busting through the door at which time they are exhausted so we spend the next few hours cuddling and watching movies until dinner
2030 my friend who's husband is in Korea and i take our kiddos to movie under the stars. As i cuddle with my children under our big quilt on wetherby field along with hundreds of other Army wives i miss my husband dearly, but if this is how and whom with i am to spend it i am grateful.
So today it's been seven days and an eventful week. The kids had spring break and THANK GOD because i may have died of loneliness! We have had so much fun, hiking through nature trails at Laurels, the gun range with Brandi n Laurel, an Army wife and kiddos luncheon, baseball practices, gardening, and dinners out with friends. Tonight we decided after b ball practice to stay in.I loved that ;) we watched toy story 3 and made popcorn and chicken sandwiches. Ugh this will be a very long few months but i can only be grateful he is safely tucked away in a barracks room in Fort Lee, not the formidable Iraq or Afghanistan. On Sunday Father Tom made the mistake of announcing to the church that Jacob was deployed,  which sent the boys ( who were serving) into a bit of a panic. The poor souls were fumbling through the rest of mass. I explained to them we would never lie to them like that daddy is safe and sound! But the thought of deployment terrifies them, bad things happen during deployments. And during these things parents pretend everything is ok. They know though, they know that crying is a daily occurrence at school. They know their friends dad got hurt and anothers mom was killed. And so on. Tonight while talking to Jacob i heard Jonah say.."are you tired?" i knew what he was doing....looking for signs of distress, paying attention to the surroundings and making sure daddy is truly "safe and sound" as we say. That was the biggest thing when Jake was in Iraq, he was exhausted. He would commonly fall asleep on the phone with us, but we didn't dare hang up. I would quietly take the phone from the kids and sit there listening to his breaths. Because those breaths were magical and calming. They meant he was ok.