Oct. 4, 2007 - Update Time
Time has flown by, and taking minutes here and there to blog just doesn't happen!! However, it's only fair to provide, "The rest of the story."
Fran came home on the 22nd of July. That day happened to be our oldest child's 20th birthday. The welcome group joined us for lunch at Chilies where one of them told the waitress it was his birthday. So, they sang to him and brought him a special dessert. While they were at it they brought Fran one as well. She'd figured out what was going on and was celebrating with us!
We kept busy for weeks after he came home. Finally the week after Labor Day we started trying to figure out what normal would be like. Since he is in the National Guard, it is not likely that he will get deployed again...or anytime soon, that is. We never expected him to be in the first place since he is not technically on active duty status. He only reports one weekend a month and 2 weeks out of the year. So, at this point, we have no reason to believe he will do anything more than that for the next several years. Before the deployment we'd never known the inconvenience to go any farther than not being able to coach our town's Rec Sports since he was gone a quarter of the weekends in a season. Deployment never occurred to us. While he was in Kuwait, he reenlisted for 6 more years. That will complete 21 years in and all the retirement benefits.
So, things are settling down as we anticipate the possibility of our oldest going off to Warrant Officer and Flight School possibly sometime in January......
.......Here we go again!
Comments
Oct. 29, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SandBetweenMyToes
Oh, my goodness. I had no idea that you didn't know your husband would be deployed. I guess that was really hard. I know you are soooo glad to have him home and life going back to "normal".
Letitia
