I got the call

Nothing is more exciting when your husband is gone than the call letting you know when he is going to be home. Whether its a 30 day training deployment or a year long deployment to Iraq, that phone call telling you he will be home on this day at this time is always exciting. The past 30 days have been interesting none the less. This time around when John deploys the boys and I are going to stay in Washington instead of going back to Oklahoma. The past 30 days have given me a taste of what our year is going to be like. It has made me figure out how things are going to work while he's gone for that year. I can honestly say the strangest part has been cooking. Its strange to cook smaller meals. Its been hard because I don't know how to cook smaller meals. When John is home I always make more than enough food, so with him being gone I definitely make more than enough food for me and the boys. I can say a positive is our grocery bill has gone down. I would gladly trade that smaller grocery bill for him being home. So.. now that I know when he's coming home the fun of making sure the house is clean and in order begins. If I can just figure out how to make my laundry fold and put itself away that would be a miracle.