First Full Day

So today is my first full, actual day without my husband. He is on deployment in the Marine Corps for who knows how long. My guess would be seven to eight months. If anyone outside my ‘circle’, if you will, ends up reading this, let me say this is more for my and my husbands benefit rather than anything else. So rambling is possible.

Thank goodness my mom is here. Had it not been for her I would not have made it last night. I slept alright with medication as per usual, but it was still rough not having my husband next to me. I miss him. My heart hurts, but I know there are a lot of good things to come with this deployment. Bittersweet has been used many times.

Prior to him leaving, we had agreed to do a modified photography project I heard about on a forum that I am a part of. The project has you taking a picture each day for one year. Well I missed out on the start of it, but I decided to take one picture every day for this entire deployment. I intend to post them up here at LEAST weekly for each day, if not daily.

So, that's all I have for now. I am not a huge blogger, but maybe I will get more into it. Below are the pictures for yesterday and today.

Jan 21, 2009

This is Jeffrey. I picked him up for my husband when he broke his elbow. Later on we got another bear for him that we named Jessica. That isn't how he spells it but I don't remember. Anyway, I snuggled up with Jeffrey for my first night without hubby and thought this was cute. It reminds me of him... silly zombie book!

Jan 22, 2009

Yes!! Those are our new house keys and garage opener. I picked them up today and I am soooo excited! The house is clean (which it wasn't when we first looked at it) and I just can't wait to get in there. YAY!!