Progress on the Homefront

Well, the rumors are really flying now about when my husband and his fellow soldiers might return from deployment, especially since we got the proverbial stop mail date.  We’ll see if we hear anything official in the next few weeks, I expect we will.  I’ve made progress though, the garage is finally clean (well as far as I’m concerned anyway!!!)  The ongoing laundry crisis is kinda under contro.l  

Overall, I’m just excited that my husband may possibly be home, safe and sound, sooner rather than later. 

I have done a lot of thinking, though.  I decided that I’m not going to be telling the girls.  I know how often flight windows and returns change.  I’ve gotten a call as I was walking out the door to pick him up.  I think that would be too much for them to handle at this point.  It’s not like they can understand the concept of “crew rest” and be cool with the fact that dad won’t be home until tomorrow. 

Mallory has been sad this week.  One of the little boys in her class had his dad come home.  Mallory couldn’t understand why her dad wasn’t home.  She didn’t think it was fair that J’s dad got to come home and hers didn’t.  She cried for awhile, and no matter what I did or said, it didn’t make it any better.  I think she just needed to cry; like we all do sometimes.  Thankfully, she’s back to her normal self and she knows dad will be home sooner rather than later.  I’ll be keeping you all posted!