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I am having an unscheduled weekend.  I just love those.  Like, I’m passionate about them.  We have been gone the last two weekends in a row, so it feels soooo good to just putz around the house and get stuff done.  I worked on organizing the office/guest room because we are having guests in a couple of weeks.  There are still no books in the book cases since our water disaster, so it wasn’t too hard to straighten up.  Then the kids and I watched Avatar.  The man is on his drill weekend, so the house is quieter and there is a lot more organizing going on.  When he is here, we have a tendency to do fun stuff, but when he isn’t, I make the kids clean their rooms.  That’s just how it works.

I decided to make it my mission on Thursday to take pictures of things that are beautiful and that make me happy.  It was weird carrying my camera around to the different schools, but I have some pretty things.  The first one is not one that I saw that day, but it was a really nice rainbow after a storm. 
Next I have some lovely flowers that are blooming, and they made me happy to see the beauty.
The beauty in everyday things part is that some of those flowers were at a school that I go to, and some of them were in a parking lot at Costco where I got gas.
I also really love books and reading, and the school I was at that day was having a scholastic book fair and it was all I could do not to buy a book.  I love books.

I find that I am now appreciating beauty in the little things again.  When my husband was gone, I had a very tough time, and for a bit I was just barely surviving, not really enjoying.  Now that he is back, things are easier, and I am happier in general, and I am all of a sudden seeing beauty.  The other day, walking through one of the schools that I work at, I saw flowers on a tree and wished that I had my camera.  Today I was walking around another school and looked up and saw a beautiful landscaped yard of a house next to the school.  I have been walking that route for months and did not even realize that there were houses and yards there.  I am starting to really enjoy things again, and care about the hobbies that I didn’t care about at all for months.  It feels good to care.  I wish that I had some pictures to share of the little beauties, but I don’t carry my camera around with me from school to school.  I have too much other stuff that I am carrying around with me.  You will just have to take my word for it that there is beauty all around us.

This deployment has been horrible.  One bad thing happening after another.  I have just been hunkering down and riding it out.  We are finally settling down, and my husband will be home in less than 2 weeks.  Man it has been a long ordeal.  Things are going better, and I am looking forward to getting back to normal life.

I saw this on I wish Wednesday on blah, blah, blah, blog, and it is funny. This is what my husband will have to be driving when he is done with training and his knees give out, and his back gives out. (I’m just kidding, he may have to wait till he is actually old.)

Now that my husband is gone, we have decided to replace him. We have renamed this build a bear koala, and he is now going to go places and have fun with us in my husband’s stead. This weekend we went swimming at my in-law’s house, and Navy Dude came along. He seemed to have a good time.

Here he is ready for his water gun fight.

I’m hungry, time to eat.

My husband just flew out yesterday for South Carolina. This is the first leg of his journey to Iraq. I miss him already, and it is going to be a long year. He is planning to take a two week leave in March, which will be half way through his time, and the kids’ spring break will fall during that time so it will be the perfect time to have a vacation. Now we have to decide where in the world we should meet him.

My husband is now going to be going to Iraq for a year. He leaves in July to South Carolina, then to Kuwait in August. Looks like a little trip to South Carolina is in order. That sounds like a fun final trip of the summer before school starts.

Yay, I just finished running a full mile. I have been slowly adding on to my run each day, and today I was able to finish a full mile without stopping to walk. Now to keep that mile and slowly add another mile a piece at a time. It feels so good to have a goal achieved.

Last week my husband took the kids to the Bass Pro shops summer camp activities. It was pretty cool from how it sounds. They got pins for completing a bird watching course, and there are camping courses, a laser shooting gallery, crafts to do, s’mores in the evening. If you live near one, you should check it out.

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