Not much thinking going on today. Been too busy. Had to do some running around for the daughter. I guess even tho they are grown, they still need ( and probably always will ) our help once in a while. You see she closed out a bank account about a week ago and opened up a new one in a new bank--before she thought about those rebate checks coming soon. Soooooooo, I had to open up her old account in the old bank -- which was only 40 miles away, "oh well mom never has anything to do" is what she thinks. I keep thinking and Ritzy keeps asking "are they ever going to leave the nest?!? She had moved out but is back, the boy has never left and it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon. But I am ok with that for now since hubby is gone, I would not like to be here alone, don't misunderstand, i like my alone times but i certainly don't want it all the time. I keep telling my kids if they don't start their families soon, me and their dad are going to be too old to babysit. The grandkids will be babysitting us ;-)....Ritzy tells me that some of his friends are reading this,,, to them i would like to say "Hi" &... well, i would appreciate it if you all would keep an eye on him for me,.......make sure he is behaving himself ;-) ...hmmm after writing this it looks like there was more thinking going on up there than i expected. have a good day !!

Today started out like any other day. I got online and started reading the news for the morning, checked e-mail, checked to see if hubby answered my e-mail from last nite. (You see every nite before i go to bed i e-mail him cause that is the time he is just getting up and ready to go on his shift at Camp Bucca. I am very lucky because he has an office and we can e-mail pretty often.) Well, anyways i received an e-mail from him and saw it had a picture attached, so i downloaded it expecting it to be a picture of something there at the camp---but he had written a short love note, took a picture of it and sent it to me. At first i smiled really big, but then the tears came, because I remembered how much i miss him. It's the really "seemingly" small things that mean a lot when we are seperated. I tell myself that there are thousands of other families having to go thru this and it breaks my heart. I don't know when it will happen, but i keep praying for an end to this war so our troops can come home to their families where they belong, because i don't believe this is the right war to be fighting. I miss you Greg.....

Well here goes, I thought I would just try this blogging, looks like a good way to vent and just publish your thoughts. I have been keeping a journal but this looks like more fun. I have plenty of opinions about what is going on in our country today. My husband is a member of the Oklahoma National Guard and is currently serving in Iraq at Camp Bucca. I really miss him. I can't wait till this deployment is over in September-October. We will miss our 25th anniversary this year in July, we also missed our 20th anniversary because he was on active duty supporting Operation Noble Eagle 5 years ago. He has reached 20 years of service during this deployment and I threatened him if he even thinks about re-enlisting . I am tired of this military life! I want him to myself for the rest of our lives. I know I am a military wife but i do not support this war or the reasons we were fooled into it. I do support our military and their families wholeheartedly though, and am so proud of them for doing what was asked of them. It's been 6 months and i still have my "bad" days when i think this will never end. It's hard when you live in an area where you are the only military family around. People around here have no idea what it is like, they say well-meaning phrases like "it will be over before you know it", or " he will be back soon" etc......well the problem is ---- what do i do NOW!?!....when i am feeling so down. That's usually the time i go to the journal, or here now that i have finally figured out how to do this ;-).