Angela ships out today. She leaves at 1900 hours and will arrive in Iraq around the same time tomorrow. She'll have a couple days to adjust and then I don't know exactly where she'll be but she'll be doing convoy security.
I am terrified and doing y best to leave it all to God. Which is a lot easier to say than to do.
Just wanted to say.

Another day, another thing goes wrong....

Dustin took today off to work on the steering on his truck. He got only so far and now he's stuck. Or was at two p.m. when he called home. I was hoping when he said he was taking off to do that, that it would all be so easy. Should have known it wouldn't be!
More later.
He fixed it! Then he came home for about thirty minutes and left again to go to class. Now he's home and we're about to go to bed. But hey, tomorrow, I have an appointment and we have grocery shopping to do and someone promised me he'd take me to Hobby Lobby!

Halloween 2008

So, it was Faith's first Halloween. I'm not much of a costume or Halloween kind of girl, but my baby girl will know how to have fun. And besides, her costume was too cute not to use it.

This was not her costume. This is her Halloween day outfit. It was so she could be cute all day. Plus, I just got a whole bunch of clothes and this onesie was part of it and you can't really wear something like that more than once.

These socks were in the dollar bins at Target. They were so cute. She wore them all day. Grandpa said she was the cutest pumpkin he'd ever seen. Of course, she's the cutest everything anyone has ever seen, so it's not too much of a stretch for her! LOL

She was a ladybug and just so cute.

Getting Colder........

I love, love, love this time of year. A little Valley Girl, I know, but it's true!
Winter air is so crisp, so pure, you can almost smell the spices of the season. Aahhh! I love it.
Plus, pregnancy has this *wonderful* side effect of making you so hot you want to die and winter fixes that right up! It's a good time to be knocked up. Almost like I planned it........
My lovely immobile daughter has morphed into the creepy-crawly baby that always wants her mommy and can now get to her anywhere there's an open door. Right now she's mad because I sent her down to type. She has nice cute clothes, but I'm scraping the bottom to find different warm clothes for her.
I've started on her room. Well, I cleaned out the closet anyway. And managed to go through all of her clothes in storage and found out she has a complete wardrobe for one and two and the beginningd of a good one for three and two whole outfits for four. She also has a decent amount of clothes for 6-9 mos. The only problem is that she has one outfit for 9-12 mos. But since she can styill wear some of her 3-6 mos clothes, I think it might take her a bit more than a month to grow out of the stuff she's just barely grown into, giving me time to find and buy more clothes when I need to.
Oh and I'm looking for a crib, hopefully with a mattress and preferably for less than a hundred dollars. Or if you find this better or sooner, bunk beds with mattresses. Just keep an eye out and let me know, would ya?
Love y'all

October, October

Dustin has a motorbike. It's not a motorcycle because it is a bike with a motor on it. It's really neat and he's really cute about it. It has broken in different ways on him twice now. Boy, was that fun! (Imagine an eye roll here) But it works now, so all is well again on the home front.
Faith has a tooth now. And the next one is coming in right alongside it. It's so cute and I'm so proud! Now, if she'll just sit up! LOL
Hey, we'll FINALLY have hard-copy pictures of Faith whenever we get them from the store. Yay! I know, it sounds a little silly, but it is actually a great feat for us. Now I need to transfer the ones from the computer to a disc and get THOSE developed. And finally start a baby picture album. Sometime before the next one arrives, hopefully.
Oh, and I now have the sinus infection that my beloved one so graciously passed on to me. If only I had some vacation time I could take!
Anyway, October is off to a stellar start! Here's hoping the rest of it turns out a bit better........

13 Weeks

So Dustin is super sick. Doesn't think he can go to work tomorrow. And he is. Sick, I mean. But please, Lord, let him go to work tomorrow. I need him to. I need the space that has been missing for the last five days. He's been sick since Wednesday, just in case you're rusty on your math.
When men get sick, they are whiny. Or at least Dustin is. I literally want to shoot myself between him and Faith. And they're jealous of each other. When one is getting my attention, the other whines until I manage somehow to share it. I suppose that this is to help me learn how to deal with two babies at once.
Too much to ask that this wait a little bit, huh?
Later

Some Things I Know

So here are some things that I know.
Death comes for us all. That is a sure thing. There are variables to when, where, how and such. But there is no avoiding death.
Death will touch you. If you live five years or fifty, you will have known death in some form or another. Someone you know will die.
Life is about conflict and peace, love and pain, hope and despair. Without both good and bad sides, there is no point to anything.
Two people connected to me have died this week. One, a loose connection and the other, much closer. A friend's grandfather and my grandfather's brother. Odd that I never met either and yet, they managed to touch me, each in a different way.
Hurricanes will come. They are an unstoppable force that cannot be avoided. And yet, somehow, each year, we are surprised by their force and destruction.
Hope everyone's okay after Ike.