Update

Okay it's been 2 weeks since Bill has been home and we are loving every minute of it. When we had the reintegration briefing we got a Give Parents A Break voucher for this month only and boy was I happy. Tonite is the night that the kids go to the CDC and the AYA for the evening. We get to drop them off from 6:30 to 11:30 tonite! I can't wait. Bill and I are going to go out for supper and probably go and pick up a movie to watch in piece and quiet for the evening. Since all of our sitters are gone due to PCSing and our last Airmen leaving 1 of March we are left with the Parents night out until we can find someone else. But that's okay. I'd rather leave them there while we find someone else suitable for the job.

Yesterday we came home with a Wii and talk about having a blast. We let Jordan pick out a game that she really wanted for the Wii and she was shocked to find out after getting the game that we were getting one. She had a blast with her new game and then came Tristan's turn and we let him bowl. He had a great time and was so excited that he had to tell Grandma about it over the phone. Good thing that Grandma could understand him because his mouth was going a mile a minute. After Bill and I got the kids put to bed it was mom and dad's turn at the new game. Bill and I bowled for 3 hours straight! I kicked Bill's butt on all of the games and he was bound and determined to win at least one game but that didn't happen. After telling him that 5:30am came early and that we needed to go to bed. But I was informed that he is going to kick my butt the next night but we will find out tonite what the real deal will be. I will post more tomorrow to let everyone know who won that game.

Sorry that this post is short but I have work to do before we go out tonite. I can't wait! Finally we get to have a supper together in peace and quiet with no kids!

He's Finally Home!

Monday
Well this week started off great. Monday the 4th of February the 22 Family got together for our last dinning out while our spouses were gone. It was nice to meet up again and just hang out and share all of the excitement that we all had about our husbands coming home. Excitement was in the air but no one had said anything to their kids so they wouldn’t get heart-broken if plans would happen to change. After an evening of excitement and the kids all wore out it was time to go home and finish last minute cleaning before Bill came home. After the kids went to bed I went to town attempting to finish things. I stayed up until 3am and had to get up at 6 to get Jordan ready for school, when that alarm went off boy I was not a happy camper but I had to get things going so I could keep myself busy so that time wouldn’t go by so slow.
Tuesday
Got Jordan ready and put her on the bus and came home to get ready myself for today was going to be another busy day planning with the 22 Spouses of how to decorate and where to get Helium at for the balloons. Thank god we had planned to eat first and then go looking for Helium off base. Talk about a pain in the butt trying to find things in Germany that you could find any place in the US. I so miss the states some days. But anyways, we had found the Helium and had that taken care of. Now the decorating. We had ordered banners, balloons and things to keep the kids busy until their mommy and daddy’s arrived. We decorated the Hanger that our husband would meet us at and went home for a night of no sleep. Stayed up again until 3:30 and got up at 5:30 to get things ready because this was the day that Bill was coming home. Kids still had not been told and I went on with the day as usual.
Wednesday



I got Jordan ready for school and sent her on her way and Tristan got ready and I took him to get a hair cut and back to the nanny so I could finish with everything else. I’m glad that I sent Jordan to school because they delayed the landing for 3 hours so that would have been torture on the kids. I picked Jordan up from school at 11am and still didn’t say anything until we got to my friend Kim’s house and I made her change into her t-shirt that we had made. After making her read her shirt she realized that daddy was coming home. I thought she was going to run me over she was so excited. So Jordan was taken care and my nanny was bringing Tristan on base to meet up with me to go and get daddy. I got his t-shirt on and we went into the hanger. I told Tristan after we got inside and he had seen everything from the balloons to about 200 people waiting to see there special someone. He was then told that daddy was coming home and he was running around telling everyone that his daddy was coming home. This little boy’s eyes were about the size of baseballs when he heard that dad was coming home. Finally about 12:30pm they announced that they guys were now waiting outside the door to meet everyone. The hanger doors opened and everyone was trying to find that special someone. I had lost Tristan and thankfully he was within arms reach. After charging through of 100 people we finally got reunited and boy did it feel great to see him again. The kids were ecstatic and at first Tristan didn’t know what to think and gave his daddy a huge hug and then back to mommy he came. But that didn’t last very long, after all of the reuniting Tristan was back in his daddy’s arms and didn’t want me anymore for awhile anyways. Jordan just about made her daddy fall because she had hugged him so hard and she was running towards him. She couldn’t get their fast enough. So we picked daddy up and home we went. The kids have not left his side since he got home and Tristan the first night fell asleep next to Bill and then had to be carried into his bed. But before he fell asleep Tristan told his daddy that “he never wants him to leave again”. Well that’s okay for now but he will have to leave again but hopefully not for a couple of years. And with the way that our luck goes, we will get back to the states and he will be hit with a 1 year tour to Korea and that means us being separated for a year, no family can go with. But by then Tristan will be older and hopefully will understand it better but we will have to wait for that one.



Friday
So Friday is here and now we are getting up early so we can greet the rest of the 22 Family coming home! Bill ended up having a Re-integration meeting and Jordan and I stayed back to welcome the rest of the family home. It was great to see that everyone is now reunited. It’s been a long 4 ½ months for us. But we have managed to pull it off. Thank god for the Chief’s wife Thuy for getting the 22 Family together and having a special bond that I will forever cherish. With her and the rest of us this has been a great experience and a very short deployment. We would get together at least 5 times a month and have suppers, play games and even go shopping and out to lunch. Everyone made sure that we weren’t staying home and avoiding everyone. With this being said I am wrapping it up and looking forward to Bill and me going out for supper without the kids. Thank god for friends that don’t have kids. With everyone that I have met over here it has really became one big family, one that I will never forget. Kim, if you read this I want to Thank You for everything that you have done for me and the bonding that we have done with our families. Thank You just isn’t enough. You have been there when times have been rough for me and have helped me out with my kids so much that I really appreciate it. Thanks for taking my phone calls at 2am when Tristan has been sick and taking care of Jordan for me and with everything that you have done. I don’t know how to every repay you for what you have done. Thanks! P.S. I will post pictures soon!
And WELCOME HOME 22 AMU! BEND OVER AND FEEL THE STING!

Finally!

Okay so I figured it’s been awhile since I last posted something so I thought I’d update it a little. Bill will be coming home soon and I can’t wait! I’m ready for a break and to get him back home so we can be together again. The kids have missed him dearly and Tristan asks every night and even in the middle of the night about when daddy is coming home. These last few weeks have been rough but we are almost there. Thank God! We had our last get together for celebrating the day they left and we all had fun. Let’s just hope that he is home in the beginning of the month rather than the middle but I won’t complain because he will be on his way home.
We managed to make it through the holidays even though it was quiet. Kim and her kids came over on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We had a good time and the kids all played well together. Kinds of surprising considering the kids are together almost every day but it has also helped pass the time along. I’ve managed to stop calling my family because I’m also sick of dealing with everyone else’s damn drama back home. I have enough drama here for my whole family if they would like it.
Since Jordan went back to school I’ve managed to start going back to the gym and I’m enjoying it now more than ever. I just wish that the pounds would keep shedding instead but we will see how this week turns out. I’ve adjusted to what I’ve been eating and I very rarely snack on anything except for a small dish of yogurt ice cream at night once in a while. It’s amazing how much better a person feels after they’ve been to the gym and for me it gets all of my frustration out of my system. I love it!
And oh yes, can you believe it since Bill has been gone we’ve managed to make only 1 trip to the ER. If it wouldn’t have been for Tristan and his bead that he stuck up his nose we would’ve been alright. Leave it to a little boy to do something like that one. What a joke. The Bitburg after hour’s clinic wouldn’t see us so we had to go off base. We went to the Krankenhaus in Bitburg and they wouldn’t see us so instead we had to drive our happy asses to Trier to the children’s hospital there. Got to love being over seas! But to top that off, they wouldn’t even see him in the children’s department so we had to go up to the ENT floor and be seen up there. I was not happy by this time and Tristan thought it was hilarious. I’m glad Kim came with me so I had some help because he was everywhere while I was trying to fill out paper work. But we got the bead out with no problem and the little sh*t did it again the next day. Didn’t he learn from the first experience but I’m glad I could get that one out. Jordan never did anything like this one but I guess they each have their own way of expressing things. Jordan was obsessed with cutting her hair and Tristan is obsessed with putting things up his nose. With that being said I’m off to get ready for the gym. Need to relieve stress and burn those calories

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Still hasn't HAPPENED!

So its 14 days until Christmas and my house still has no decorations. As a matter of fact the containers are still upstairs in the spare room. Now that’s sad, but hopefully with a little bit of help from my friend Kim and her kids my house will be decorated by this weekend. Fingers crossed because it sure as HELL isn’t going to happen over night with me. I really need to get out of this mood and I just can’t seem to budge. Maybe I need a mini vacation but oh wait, that’s not happening either. Damn deployments! But that’s his job and someone has to do it. I’m sure if Bill knew that I still didn’t have the tree decorated he’s be on my butt about it, I’m sure he understands though and I wish the kids did too.
Tristan is still asking about his daddy and today has been one of those days where he has asked that same question over and over and over again. Does it stop anytime or at this age will he just keep asking the same thing? I guess it’s something for me to ponder on for awhile. And then besides the whole asking of his daddy, I can’t leave his sight for a minute again, thank god Lisa starts watching him again on Monday and I can get back to the gym and hopefully I will start feeling better and less stressed. I know that’s part of my problem with him and this whole Scrooge feeling.
Jordan on the other hand has also been something else to deal with this last week. She’s already had to go and stay at Kim’s for one night and at the rate she’s going I need at least a 2 day break. I just can’t deal with her right now. Is that bad of me? Am I a horrible mom for saying that or for that matter sending her over to a friend’s house on top of it to give me a break? I feel like the worst mother in the world saying that but I’m so burnt out that I’m to the point I don’t know what to do anymore and I really don’t like telling Bill because he has enough to deal with. I have told him a few things from time to time when I’m in one of those moods but I haven’t told him even half of it. But wait and now with Jordan, her fricken biological retard of a dad all of a sudden starts calling again and is going to send her a present this year. Jordan has asked him finally why he has never sent her anything, and when I mean anything I mean he can’t even mail her a fricken $2 card. Well we will see this year if he actually follows through. But get a load of this one; he wanted to send her a fricken IPOD Touch for Christmas! People have you seen the price of these things??? There over $200, and a 7 year old with an IPOD Touch, now give me a break! What kind of an idiot mails a 7 year old that for Christmas, you might as well wipe your butt with $200 and watch it go down the toilet because you know that’s not going to last very long. IDIOT!! But enough with that subject, I could go on all day.
Oh yes, lets not forget about the Christmas cards, I still haven’t started on those either. People, please kick me or something to get this going, at this rate I’ll be lucky if they are out by Valentine’s Day. I really need to get in gear.
Enough for now, I’m done going on and on about nothing. Maybe this could be considered therapy??HMMM…..I’ll have to think on that one too.

Scrooge....

Okay, so I realize it’s been a long time since I have posted anything but in all reality I’m completely clueless as to what I should even write about. The only thing different right now is that well, I finally put our tree up but needless to say it’s still not decorated. Anyone up for helping me decorate a tree and having a drink or two??? I’m not in the mood to decorate at all and I still have a crap load of presents to wrap which I haven’t even started on. Jordan has been bugging me about the tree but Tristan has been sick for the last week and I’m starting to get a cold. I feel like crap, no energy or for that matter I’ve been extremely crabby. I have been doing some baking but all the baking I did went off to the squadron so we could send it downrange and now I did some more baking and that is getting sent off to Bill on Monday. I have no more ambition to bake anymore. So with that being said, I ask again, “Is anyone willing to bake, decorate, wrap and well take care of my house while I’m off in never land?” I really need to get out of this rut that I’m in because pretty soon it’s going to start rubbing off on other people. Oh but wait there’s more, I need someone to do my Christmas cards for me. Stephanie, you are too productive for me. I took the easy way out and bought picture cards but I still have to pick them up. At this rate I’ll be lucky if they are out before Christmas. I think I need a good kick in the ass to get me started.
So with this little post that I just did, it’s going to have to do for I need some sleep and a little someone who won’t go to bed that needs my attention. Maybe since it’s a new week I can start being productive right?? We will see about that one.

Supper with the 22nd Spouses

Well it was your normal Monday like another except would end even better. Monday evening we had supper at JR Rockers with the rest of the 22nd Spouses and what a good time I had. It’s always nice to get out of the house and go out for supper with other people especially when you don’t have to cook. The kids had a great time and ran around like they normally do. Although T was a little stinker, they must have been having a drawing for a 4 wheeler because that’s all the kids kept going for was that damn thing. But they eventually found other things to keep them occupied. Not much was happening in the squadron to report but a good time was had by all, just socializing about how fast the two months have already gone by. But I have attached a picture of all of us having fun at JR Rockers Monday night. A great time was had by all and the kids, well they were tired by the time we got home.

Looking into the week I’m even more excited for yes Thanksgiving! The 22nd is getting together again not only for Thanksgiving but for the Countdown of our spouses being gone. It will have been exactly two months to the day! We will be shooting an AFN holiday greeting and AFN will be at our even for awhile taping it so the guys can see that we are trying to make the best of our situation. So while everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving this year please think of the troops that are deployed during this time of year. I know this year will be more challenging than ever for us. We have never been separated over these major up coming holidays before. I can’t wait to get them over and done with and soon after it will be time to start planning their homecoming! YEAH!! I can’t wait for that one. But enough said for now. Look for more upcoming photos from Thanksgiving.