Our date night and beyond

Let’s start this one out with a recap from our “Date Night”. We dropped the kids off at Give Parents a Break and headed out for supper. We had a place in mind so we went out there and decided that we didn’t feel like sitting and waiting for a while for our food so we left and went out to eat the Thai place that we all love so much. We got there ordered our delicious food of wontons along with the main course. It was delicious! Glad that we went there because it hit the spot for both of us. It’s been awhile since we had eaten there so it was worth deciding against our first decision. After we got done eating we still had over 3 hours to kill before the kids had to be picked up. Now what do we do? Well we decided to go home and play the damn Wii. Seriously people, how many married couples do you know that go out for supper and then go home and play the damn Wii??! Not a whole lot I’m guessing. But we went home played the Wii for a couple of hours and then started to watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith. I get a kick out of that movie. Before we knew it, it was time to pick up the little monsters. Bill thought for sure that Tristan would be asleep but I thought other wise. We picked up Tristan first and low and behold that mom was right! He was wide awake and was excited to see that we were there to pick him up. He made a puppet and did some drawings to help pass the time. Thank god for the CDC! But of course it all depends on the care takers also. If it would’ve been someone else in that room from the other CDC I would not have left him there. After Tristan then came Jordan and she was so hyper that I seriously didn’t think she was ever going to go to bed. But as soon as we got home the kids went to bed ASAP and mom and dad headed to bed after they were tucked in. All in all we had a nice and peaceful evening with just the 2 of us. I can’t wait for the next date night!
Sorry if I’m jumping around but I should keep up with this a little more often rather than all at once. This week has been another busy week. With us being down to one vehicle until Bill’s gets fixed it has been early mornings for us. When I mean early, I mean early but in a way its good because then we can get up and stay up and bedtime is even earlier. We have been waking up at 5:30 every morning this week and it’s killing me but I have to stay awake and not go back to bed after Bill is dropped off at work and Jordan at the bus stop. Monday we were suppose to have company for supper before she left for Korea but that didn’t happen. Scheduling ended up not working out which is okay I guess. I was making a great supper that night but that’s okay. I still made it and boy did it taste good! I made Chicken Lasagna (Thanks Tricia!), Classic Creamy Cheesecake or something like that from Pampered Chef, and of course Salad and Garlic Bread. The kids loved it and wanted more of everything and Bill enjoyed it because he hasn’t had it in almost 6 months so it was an excellent supper for us, it’s just too bad that Nikki didn’t make it over. We will always remember her and the kids will miss her dearly now that she is in Korea.
On Wednesday we went out for supper with our friend Mark. We took him out to eat for he is also moving to Korea in less than a month. We would’ve had him over for supper but I wanted to go out and enjoy having an adult conversation with just the 3 of us and have no kids running around and climbing all over him. I managed to find a sitter but since we don’t have our Airmen anymore we have had to resort to a teenage sitter. Thank god for our Nanny Lisa who lives next door and helped out the sitter. I’m not big on getting teenagers just because we have had bad luck in the past and just prefer the Airmen that we get since Jordan especially likes to give them a hard time. I picked her up at 6pm and got home and the kids I swear had lost their minds but I’m sure it’s because someone new was in the house. Lisa came over in the nick of time to settle the kids down for Kailyn and we snuck out the door. We met Mark at the restaurant and got to the table. I can’t believe we went out for supper twice in peace and quiet too. I love to cook but going out is nice especially when it’s just the 2 of us or even when we got out with friends. After sitting down and enjoying our meal of course one always wonders what the kids are up too when you aren’t home and if they are behaving. But I was told not to call because Lisa would handle it for us. Boy, am I going to miss her when she leaves. Hopefully it’s in 2009 and not this summer. Just as we suspected though, Jordan was a little stinker and had to test her boundaries. Kailyn called Lisa to see if we would mind that they kids had popcorn and a movie before they go to bed and she said that it was fine. Jordan decided to tell her that we don’t make her share and that she gets a bag all to herself. But that’s not how it goes in the house and Jordan being the Drama Queen that she is played it as much as she could. Finally Kailyn got smart and called Lisa again and Jordan got on the phone and was told that if she didn’t listen that she was going over to Ms. Lisa’s house until we got home and then she would be in even more trouble come that time around. But I guess kids will be kids but she is testy. I wonder where she get’s that from. LOL After we got home from supper we got filled in on what took place and decided that we were done with teenage sitters for now. Tristan was of course excellent and didn’t give anyone a hard time. He was still awake when we got home though, which is what we expected and Jordan was sound asleep. Thank god because it would’ve been nothing but drama for us. But we did have a nice time getting to go out and enjoy supper with a friend before he moves. We will have to remain in touch because I need a new purse from there. Can’t wait to send him my first list shortly after he gets there.
Now comes the weekend. We were thinking about going to Ramstein this weekend but that got bumped back to the following weekend since my husband is such a nice man and volunteered to be on standby to give his troops some down time. Not everyone is like that though. But I’m glad that he is looking out for them. Granite they also have had 2 weeks off also he wanted to let them have a little longer break especially since there was a couple that stayed back and had to work all the time. He had to be to work at 8am and I have no clue when he will be home but since he is gone I’m stuck at home without a vehicle. I have things to do and I’m not use to staying home on the weekends. I’m use to running around all the time just to pass time. I don’t know if it’s just me or what but I’m having a hard time adjusting to my husband being back home. I love him to death but I wasn’t expecting to go through this. I like my quiet time or so called quiet time and I’m not use to being home every night and on the weekends. I’m use to running errands and go to the gym and hanging out with friends during the day. This is very challenging. Did or does anyone else have that or felt that when there husband came back from downrange? I feel bad because he’s the one that’s supposed to have these issues not me but it’s the other way around. I got set in my ways when he was downrange and now all of a sudden I have someone else here invading my space or what ever it should be called. Hopefully this passes soon and I’m not so moody. So honey, if you read this I’m sorry but I need some advice and I hope you understand. But I will figure something out because I’ve been very moody these last few days and couldn’t put my finger on it until I talked to a couple of other spouses who are going through the same thing I am. They didn’t think it would be them either but hopefully it will pass in a few days or a week and I will be back to normal. Until next time have a great weekend!

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.