waiting

You know what really just sucks?

Besides deployment...in general?

Waiting all day for a phone call

That's no fun

Then you get the phone call...its later at night and he has to be at another meeting in just a few minutes

You only get about 2 minutes on the phone but since I'm super nice and giving I decide to give my 2 year old a chance to say hi to his Dad

I'm just super nice like that

To bad I wasted that entire first minute trying to convince my son to say "hi" to his dad instead of watch Dora the Explorer

In Dora's defense she is pretty cool...I mean she speaks english AND spanish

After the first failed attempt and wasted minute I spent the entire second minute saying "What!?!? I can't hear you " over and over again.

I'd like to say this was due to a poor connection ...country to country doesn't always work great

But we're actually still in the same state at the moment

Nope ...this was child #2..screaming in my ear the entire time

So that just sucks.... 2 minutes of conversation with my husband the entire day and I doubt I got a one entire complete sentence said to him

Phone conversation conclusion:

Kids-1 Parents-0

Lonely

The word of the day is lonely

A just said good bye to one of the most important people in my life for weeks and months and weeks on end kind of lonely

I kind you really don't understand unless you live it

That is probably why military wives stick together so close cause really we are the only ones that "get it"

Kind of like a really secret exclusive club that only the coolest of the cool people get to be part of

Never thought I'd say this but, "Man I wish I wasn't SO cool"

It's a hard thing to understand

It's a hard thing to live

It is so impossibly hard to drive away and not know when you'll see them again

To want to stay with him

Not to be misunderstood that I'd want to go with

If i was choosing a warm climate to go to I think I'd choose somewhere more like Mexico.

Iraq just doesn't sound that vacation-ey to me

I prefer sand AND water