Practice.

I like to consider Mojave Viper training my practice run at deployment, it's a 5 week period where I kind of got a feel for what our schedules will be like with daddy gone and how life will be. I wish I could say I did okay, but I really don't think I did lol. I mean getting sick, having sick kids, calling an ambulance, and over cooking every single night (I hate left overs!) is pretty much going to fall under the "I failed" category.

Well I mean we are all still alive, but holy damn! I never get sick but the day Daniel left I was sick with the flu, of course both children were soon to follow! We all got well then BAM here comes a bug again! This time causing my poor Sassy girl to have a febrile seizure. (If you didn't know, febrile seizures are brought on by getting really hot really fast or coming down from a high fever too fast, they are hereditary, and they should both out grow them!) Thankfully she was okay, it just scared me half to death, I spent most of Thursday crying. I know her fever came on suddenly but looking back I could have noticed when she was "too sleepy mommy" for pizza. She's just so hard to read sometimes because she is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO dramatic. Daniel had his tonsils removed back in December and she still tells me her throat is either hurting or better, I have had her checked and that child's throat is fine lol.

One thing I have realized is it's SUPER annoying when people send their sick kids to school, I mean really. Do you feel the need to get rid of your child THAT bad for 3 hours that you're willing to infect an entire preschool class? I need to find some immune system boosters for my little sheltered kids lol.


A good thing I can say is we definitely fell into a routine and passed the time. So I guess I can't count this as a total fail, but it's pretty close haha. We plan to stay extremely busy while daddy is gone. Hopefully 7 months will fly as fast as this 5 weeks have and we have daddy back safe and sound!

I feel like I should say, I was a little skeptical of the people my husband works around, he seemed a little uncomfortable in the platoon for the longest time, but I will give them all props for coming together for me when I needed to try to contact Daniel about Myleh at the hospital. There just aren't enough words to express how much that meant to me. <--This could be considered a good thing too.


It's not easy trying to swallow the fact that there's a deployment looming on the horizon after 4 years. I'm beginning to question my sanity because I feel like I shouldn't be so worried, but I really am. I can't quite put my finger on what but I am already stressed. I wish this deployment would just start so I could get it over with, does that make sense? I think this time leading up to the D day is the WORST! It's like impending doom that you think about constantly.

Ok, I am all out of words.