Day 7 - 8

I have been kind of slacking in the picture taking department the last few days. There has been so much on my mind and if you know me then you know it has been about my husband. My mom left last night to head back to Atlanta and is safe and sound. Though I had a pretty rough night last night. It was the first actual night alone since Nate left for Iraq. I cried, I sobbed, I blubbered at myself and I talked to some wonderful people who helped me through it. Although I still miss him so much, I know that this is all part of it. I just need to keep moving forward and keep myself occupied until he gets home.

So tonight after feeding and playing with the puppies I headed to Wal*Mart. Now I love Wal*Mart and I love Sams Club. I went to both. I got a bunch of stuff to put into Nate's next care package and I got the camcorder. So I -may- interchange between movies and pictures depending on how things go.

Tomorrow the maintenance crew is coming by to fix a light and the locksmith is coming to fix our front door... around 7am. Hopefully I can have the girls pretty calm and napping by then so that they don't have them underfoot.

Then after that I get to head over to the shelter to work on a website for them. Apparently theirs is frozen and they kind of have no clue about websites or how to do much on them. So I offered to help out where I could.

And that is about it. I did get to talk to Nate for a bit this afternoon and as usual, I loved every second of it. Apparently he is sick, which I am not happy about (more so because I can't be there to help make him feel better). Also he is suppose to be going to speak to his CO about his re-enlistment. He said that just about everyone who signed it gave him stellar remarks and that the rest gave him the generic remarks just to get it off their desk, so to speak. But either way, the really important folks put down some wonderful comments about him and he sounded pretty excited about it. I am so proud of him!! I can't wait to hear what the CO has to say to him.

And speaking of CO, I have a brunch this weekend at the Co's wife's home. Its for all the wives who's first deployment is this one. A get together to make new friends and so on. I... am... NERVOUS!!! I do not do so great in large crowds and there are suppose to be about 25 or so people there. AH!!! But no matter... I am forcing myself to go, get out of the house, and meet these people. After all that was one of my big arguing points for moving into base housing to begin with, to be closer to the unit and other military families.

We will see how all that goes. Until next time!!! Poof!