Goodnight #63

Just goodnight #63.....from me and Jasper to The Dude in Cammies....

Skype Night

Just another typical Face Time with The Dude in Cammies, although he is obviously NOT in cammies, but sometimes he is, but tonight he isn’t…..but I did see his cammies as he joked about how when we hung up he was going to go get his uniforms ready.  He has to get his ‘in town’ uniform ready and then roll sleeves on his cammies for when he is on base. He is visiting some schools tomorrow on behalf of the base so he has to wear his blues.  I told him I could watch him roll his sleeves so it would be like he was at home……he said, “no!” lol He chit chatted with each of the kids, I walked around the house so he could see and say hello to each of the furry kids as well. Jasper barked his head off as usual when he hears his voice….Leah did a courtesy howl, Tank acts like he doesn’t care and Bella gets all yippy with her barking. These furry kids are just too funny! Soo glad we have facetime with our phones and can pretty much see each other and chit chat whenever we want to. Hopefully this summer we can be living under the same roof again….but until than we have facetime/skype time or whatever time…… 

Yep, we have this even stateside.....

The cammies waiting to get the sleeves rolled....

Good Morning & Good Luck

The Dude in Cammies HATES being in the spotlight.....i think he secretly likes it a little, but he does also hate being that center attention guy at the same time....so i took some funny pictures this morning and had fun blowing up his phone when he woke up to hopefully relax him a little and lighten up his mood....so here are just a few that i took in the library this morning and sent to him before i went to my classroom.....

He HATES this face with a passion!!!!!

Goodnight #38

It is now March....tonight is the 38th Goodnight by phone.....keep smiling.....keep staying happy.....one foot in front of the other.....I feel like I just did this for a year.....oh yeah, I did, just to start all over again, smile, stay happy, one foot in front of the other.....repeat....maybe for 2 years this time....and try to be sympathetic to the wife who is complaining about her husband who works nights......or whose husband is going to be gone for 3 whole days this week, how will she ever manage, or the wife who thinks she is loosing it because her husband has a 6 week school to go to or the wife who is saying they are getting out if their bonus isn't as big as last time and he's never even deployed where he has to carry a gun and shoot people.....the list is endless of complaining wives......geeez, I would just like to live on the same coast as my husband. That is what we were hoping for. We knew the gun club would move him, we were just hoping it would be SC or VA where we could see each other atleast every other weekend or so, not the whole opposite side of the US of A!!!!! Oh well.....smile, be happy, one foot in front of the other.....and I'm not complaining.....I can do this life, i just get so annoyed when i have to listen to people complaining about their husbands or boyfriends being gone for just this little itty bitty time frame.....they are so lame.....

I Will Try To Stay Calm....

I am not a live in snow person....but I will try to remain calm as snow heads our way again.....this is the SOUTH!!!! My Mitten Man is not here to save me from the white stuff that is coming.....but I will try to stay calm and hope I don't have to drive anywhere!!!!

Funny Face # IDK

Just sending a funny face from work to The Dude in Cammies phone for him to wake up to. 

Sunday Sillies

Just sending funny pictures to my lonely husband on a Sunday afternoon to  hopefully make him smile......

Snow Day 2

I was making funny faces for The Dude in Cammies who happened to be in the desert while we were having snow days.....yep, he was just a bit jealous....me out in the backyard with my phone taking selfies in the snow and sending them to him who was standing outside in the desert with nothing but sand and rocks....

Black & Brown Make Me Frown

I was wearing black and brown today. When i wear black and brown Vicki always says, "Black and Brown makes me frown!" So i sent this picture with Vicki's little rhyme to Ed and Vicki. Just in case they were missing me.....

Not Used To This!

Totally not used to this! Empty closet.......empty drive way.......and Vicki is the one heading out to the next duty station!  This is just all kinds of backwards!!!  His vehicles have always been left behind when he leaves, only his uniforms have left the closet, and Vicki scouting out our next duty station?!!! Yep, just all kinds of crazy!!! But they made it to Alabama!

Leaving For Work By Myself

Yep, This was me leaving for work this morning....my first morning leaving for work all by myself!!! Ed and Vicki leave in a little bit for California.....I'm just a little bit sad.....He just got home and now he is already leaving again.....i just don't understand why the Gun club can't keep him here, or atleast somewhere on the East Coast!!!  The housing market has crashed here!!! We are stuck, so he leaves and we stay here and I'm mad!!!! I'm sooo tired of this tiny itty bitty part of the American people having to give sooo dang much while the giant part of the American people give absolutely nothing but get to vote on things that affect our lives and the security of our country!!! And now even our pay.....ugh, just getting worn down...

Driving Away....With VICKI!!!

I'm the Mom, the Marine Wife....it's my double job to watch the Marine and my daughter drive away and wave until i see them no more....and than of course wipe away the tear drops and walk back into work with a smile like i will see them tonight at the dinner table.  The life of a Marine Wife....i dare someone to try it for a day....well a day when they are away....well a day when they are away with a gun, while being shot at, in a foreign country, with no laws, and not allowed to shoot back at the people shooting at them, and not sure if the people they are with will be shooting them.....try it on one of those days....those are the harder days.....this is actually an easy day.....i could call him right now if i wanted to, but i won't because he is still on base and he can't talk on his phone on base and i need to get back to my classroom......  

Stopped To Say Goodbye

Ed and Vicki stopped by my work to say goodbye before they headed out.....

She said to hurry because she was freezing!!!!

They are heading out!

One last goodbye....

The Navigator.....She's doing my job....

They've got their Pringles.....

All of Ed's bags....

Vicki's bag

Another Last Kiss

My very last kiss before The Dude (not) in Cammies left for our next duty station.......hoping to kiss him again over Easter Vacation in April!!!!

Last Date

We went out on our last date. Tomorrow he leaves, again....this time for a long time.....a REALLY long time...but atleast he won't be getting shot at or driving roads where he can get blown up....he should have air conditioning and heat and be able to choose what he wants to eat, so that is good!  The housing market has totally crashed wear we live so it's not like we can just pack up and follow him to his next duty station.  We are stuck here in the house he built us.  There are 6 houses empty on our street. Our house will make number 7.  It is a 2 year duty station.  Thank goodness it is only a 2 year duty station!!!  Maybe the market can turn around and we can sell and break even by than. I am hoping so! This is NOT where i want to live forever and ever. I screamed and hollered, stamped my feet and all but threw myself on the floor trying to talk him out of buying a house because of this very thing.  It is just a VERY big piece of baggage when it comes time to PCS.  I told him this was not the time to buy back in 09. I begged him to take base housing!!!! This is EXACTLY what i did NOT want to be dealing with when orders came.  I've listened to wives complain about this very thing for YEARS!!! I told him when it came time to move someday that he would have to be the one to deal with realtor's and everything involved in taking care of renting a house. That i wanted absolutely NO part in it!!!  He promised he would or the kids and i would stay and he would go. But, nope. Here i am. Stuck doing everything and yelled at if i don't do something or don't do something right or fast enough. i didn't want this house because of all of this!!!! I would LOVE to be packing up and moving to a new location but it gets tricky when you have something as big as a HOUSE when you need to move 3,000 miles away and can't sell it or find someone to rent it.  So, the kids and i will stay atleast to the end of the school year and we will decide from there.  I think the kids and should stay here and he should fly home once a month and visit and  that way i keep my job and and we don't risk someone destroying our home or moving out and it sitting empty or destroying it and not paying the rent either.  I just don't see taking the gamble of going into financial ruin for an 18 month move. I am hoping he sees things just as clearly since he was so dang adamant on building this house and his words were if orders came and we couldn't rent than "i will go and you and the kids will stay here".  Which i told him way back in 2009 wasn't fair and that he better hope those orders weren't overseas because i would be totally ticked off at him if he leaves us behind for an awesome duty station!!!!  Which i am a little irked that we are being left behind for California, that is home for me, but financially the kids and i need to stay here.  It makes no sense to go move somewhere for 18 months with a super high chance of financial ruin and going somewhere with a 13% unemployment rate. Getting a job is pretty much out of the question.....so my income is gone.....we probably won't be able to rent the house for what our mortgage is, so another loss there....sooooo last date night for awhile.......we smiled, we laughed, and i hope he doesn't know how flippin' mad i am!!!!      

Another Season Has Passed

The Dude in Cammies left in the middle of Fall....We have finished Fall, survived Winter, cruised into Spring, and loved our R&R with The Dude in Cammies during Summer and now we are back to Fall!  He must almost be home!!!