I guess I will start by saying that I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. This Christmas was so much better than last year. It would have taken a great bit to make it worse than last year. We had a house full and a ton of food. It really was a great day. For the first time in eight years I had someone from my family with me for Christmas. My sister ended up staying on the island and spent the day with me.
Having hubby home has been pretty great. He is on leave right now and my son is out of school so we are getting to spend a lot of time together as a family. It's a nice change of pace.
I have other news that I don't feel like talking about right now because I still have to figure out my feelings on the matter. Otherwise life is good a nd quite unexciting which is all good to me.
Life is good. That is really the only way I can describe it. Things are different. My friend asked me if things were back to normal and I had to ask her what was normal. Her definition of normal was "Marriage, husband, child, life...whats normal for you?" Now that doesn't seem to out of the ordinary, but having my husband home and a marriage that is not being stressed by seperation or upcoming deployment is not something I have had for almost two years. Now I'm sitting here asking myself what is normal. I mean to me it's more normal to have my son here with me and my husband somewhere else. All in all, we are adjusting though. I still have a habit of saying "My" instead of "Our" and thankfully he is very understanding and patient with it. It has been great having his laughter around and someone to hold. He has already made his way back into helping with the little things that you don't think about someone helping with when you have to do it all on your own for so long. I had to get used to little things like him getting me something to drink or throwing the clothes in the dryer. I kept telling him I would do it until he finally made me see that he likes doing things for me and it wasn't a problem.
He is adjusting really well to being home and no longer in a war zone. There are a few things that I never would have thought of that seem to get to him. Some of it is really hard to see and others he makes really funny. At first, everytime we went to leave somewhere, he would be reaching for his weapon. now he says he only does it when he's in uniform. Some of the sadder ones is the moments of intense alertness he has while driving down the road because he is looking out for IEDs or the fact that when a balloon popped last night at my sister's house, he and his two friends that just returned as well looked as though they were ready to hit the dirt or attack or something. We just joked that it was a good thing none of them had weapons because my son would have been in trouble. I know it seems a morbid joke and not very funny, but how do you deal with that intense stress? I don't think there is a code for it.
In other news, we now have a new pet. We have a most adorable cat. She was my sister's boyfriend's cat and they were going to bring her to the humane society this past weekend because they moved and their new place was too small. I have totally fallen in love with this cat over the past four months or so and wanted to keep her. I didn't think I would be able to because my husband used to have bad cat allergies. It would appear he has grown out of them because after several times of being around her with no reaction, he said we could keep her. I love having her around. She is not the most cuddly, but she is still nice to have around. She has a few quirks that make us laugh. The other day we gave her a bowl of milk and watched as she would dip her paw in the milk and lick it off her paw. She continued to do this for a wall and had us laughing. I asked my sister about it and she said that the cat doesn't like to eat or drink out of bowls and will do that every time. It still cracks me up.
I guess that will be all for now. I'm sure I have more to say, but right now I can't think of it. I do want to thank all of my wonderful friends for their support over the past year. Don't think that because he's home now, I'll be talking to you any less. I can always use good friends to laugh with.
He is adjusting really well to being home and no longer in a war zone. There are a few things that I never would have thought of that seem to get to him. Some of it is really hard to see and others he makes really funny. At first, everytime we went to leave somewhere, he would be reaching for his weapon. now he says he only does it when he's in uniform. Some of the sadder ones is the moments of intense alertness he has while driving down the road because he is looking out for IEDs or the fact that when a balloon popped last night at my sister's house, he and his two friends that just returned as well looked as though they were ready to hit the dirt or attack or something. We just joked that it was a good thing none of them had weapons because my son would have been in trouble. I know it seems a morbid joke and not very funny, but how do you deal with that intense stress? I don't think there is a code for it.
In other news, we now have a new pet. We have a most adorable cat. She was my sister's boyfriend's cat and they were going to bring her to the humane society this past weekend because they moved and their new place was too small. I have totally fallen in love with this cat over the past four months or so and wanted to keep her. I didn't think I would be able to because my husband used to have bad cat allergies. It would appear he has grown out of them because after several times of being around her with no reaction, he said we could keep her. I love having her around. She is not the most cuddly, but she is still nice to have around. She has a few quirks that make us laugh. The other day we gave her a bowl of milk and watched as she would dip her paw in the milk and lick it off her paw. She continued to do this for a wall and had us laughing. I asked my sister about it and she said that the cat doesn't like to eat or drink out of bowls and will do that every time. It still cracks me up.
I guess that will be all for now. I'm sure I have more to say, but right now I can't think of it. I do want to thank all of my wonderful friends for their support over the past year. Don't think that because he's home now, I'll be talking to you any less. I can always use good friends to laugh with.
I haven't written in a while because I didn't have anything to say. Today, I have the opposite problem. I have so much to say but I have no idea where to begin. I am just going to leave it with two words.
HE'S HOME!!!!!!