Good-bye

I'm not going to be all mushy because I don't want to start that again. I already had to say good-bye to Marci and her family (my sister) and my Dad. ANYWAY, I fly out on Friday. Yup, this Friday!!! I'm going to visit Jayme (my other sister) to see her new baby and then heading home to make sure everything is packed. It still feels like I have so much to do. Wish me luck. I don't know when I'll get the internet working on base so I'll see you when I see you.

Too depressing

So due to the fact that I depressed too many people with my last post I am doing a more "fun" one by decree of my mother.



This past weekend we went to Idaho to surprise my sister Jayme for her birthday. We had a lot of fun. On the way back we stopped for lunch and in the same parking lot was a bank's water fountain display "thingy". Of course Sean wanted to go over to the water falls. So we took that time to snap some pictures.



This is my sister Marci and her daughter.



Three of the four sisters. It's too bad we didn't get a picture with Jayme while we were there. Good job to Kae, who snapped this picture.




Brandi, being a good sport and letting me take her picture




My three kids and Marci's one year old. You can tell they were pretty done with getting pictures taken by this time.






At the beginning of the "shoot", pretty happy except Van. And apparently I had a smudge on my lens. Oh well!

Over all the pictures all turned out pretty cute.

Bedtime

Bedtime is the end of the day. The days seems to rush by filled with cooking and cleaning, fighting and laughing, crying and playing, errands and checklists. Hugs and kisses fill the "in betweens". By the time sunset comes along it seems no matter how long the day might have felt, all of a sudden it has disappeared. The house settles down to rest and be quiet. I used to enjoy that calm, now I fear it. As bedtime nears I know silence is coming. I know darkness is coming. I'm afraid of the dark. It means that soon everyone will be asleep. Except me. Flipping through the channels trying to postpone my own bedtime. Knowing that I will be alone. I touch his pillow, missing him so much. Knowing that I can't help him, I can't hug him. I eventually fall asleep hoping that one of my kids will wake up and want to sleep in my bed, even if only for a few minutes. It's only been a week and a half. I miss my best friend. Goodnight. It's almost time for a new day to begin.

Stuff!

I posted about how all of our stuff was taken away. Well, here is the picture of all of our stuff. Believe it or not it is organized into three separate groups. Brandi very graciously let us commandeer her garage for two weeks while we went through it all. That is was our home of five looks like all laid out. Crazy!