Well its been a while since you have heard from us but I must say it has been a crazy month!! "D" day as I call it or deployment day has come and gone...I just spoke with T this morning and after 8 days of traveling and layovers he has finally made it to the FOB he will be at all year. We had heard some bad things about the place but he said will all the native workers they have had coming in every day to build it up its actually exceeded his expectations...he was quite thrilled to find the plastic flushing toilets and a john deere gator he has "borrowed" for now :) we all know T well enough to know not to leave things like that unattended but I guess his coworkers havent figured that out yet!!
Saying goodbye was a very difficult thing to do, T and I have had to do it before but this is the first year long stent he will be away from L. L is still a little young to understand why he is gone but he is adjusting ok...he does great during the days because he understands me saying dad is gone for work means he wont be here during the day but he will continually ask for him at night because work means he should be home at night. Bath time and Bed time are the hardest because those are usually T's things he does with him but it is gradually getting better! We enjoy watching the videos he left for L and have been able to skype with him some which L loves and thinks is so cool to see his daddy in the computer!
While this month has been busy this past week or so has been crazy. We have had two natural disasters hit, almost 3 weeks ago we had a tornado come through town which did not physically hit our house but it did pick up our "shed", broke one of our big trees in the back, and took one of the shutters off the front of the house and smashed it into T's car so we have an adjuster coming out tomorrow to assess the damage. We then got the "great flood of 2010" last weekend. It has actually been pretty bad, we luckily live almost a mile from the closest point on the river, which the neighborhood beside us was evacuated but we luckily sustained no damage. L was out of school all week and they still havent decided on next week whether they will have it or not. Then there is my car...the day T left L and I packed up and headed home to enjoy some distraction and time with grandparents to help keep us busy the first few days he was gone. While home my parked car was hit in front of my parents house. The girl seemed to be a bit out of it because she side swipped a lexus before hitting my SUV head on. Her insurance company told me it was fine to drive on home so I did but unfortunately found out when I went to get an estimate that I should not be driving it. Her insurance had to provide a rental car (which might I add is sweet, its a 2011 and I have never been able to smell new leather in any car I have driven haha) but I was quite mad that they didnt take the time to notice she had done some serious damage underneath my car when she plowed herself under. But luckily we made it here safe and my car is now hanging out at the body shop waiting to be fixed.
We are trying to stay busy because it seems that the busy days are the easiest. I start back for summer school next monday and L will be hanging out at my friend Kristin's house with her little boy while I am at school, but we are looking forward to the end of June when my class is over and we are able to enjoy the summer!!
I have T's address and will be sending out a package to him today but if anyone would like the address to be able to send him some words of encouragement email me and I will be more then happy to send it to you!!
