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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Holy heavens
It just hit me that DH will be back from deployment within a month's time. He has missed so much of E's early development and I am so excited for him to see her. I'm really hoping the transition goes fairly smoothly, from being E and me to "the family." And I really hope the dog remembers him LOL What has been y'all's experience, post- deployment? TIA!
Re: Holy heavens
We haven't dealt with babies, but we've dealt with dogs! The dogs remember very quickly and have always been anxious to welcome us back into the routine. They'll feel more secure if you stick with your routine and NILIF. Rudi missed me so much after my first long TDY that he tinkled when he saw me, so now we try to do greetings outside.
As far as humans go, when I got back from deployment, I had a tough time remembering things. I'd go buy eggs, bring them home, and then couldn't find them. I did that three times in a weekend, leading to a pretty epic meltdown. Simple things, like putting refrigerated items in the cupboard.
H expected me to jump right back into my predeployment routines and assumed I was feeding the dogs every morning when I woke up. I thought he was doing it because he recognized I was struggling. Yeaaah, no. After two freaking weeks, we realized they'd only been eating dinner, no breakfast. We know now to have painstakingly detailed conversations about our expectations.
I was really jumpy when I came home. Someone had decorated my garage with balloons and streamers, and as I was walking out of my garage, a balloon blowing in the wind freaked me out so much I hit the ground.
I'm really worried that this will be me. Something to keep in the forefront of my mind then. Thanks for the other advice. D is a tinkler too so I guess they will say hi in the garage LOL
Yay so exciting!
I can't help with the kids area yet.
For DH's deployments the dogs have just gone crazy. For one deployment, he saw our dog for the first time at my parent's house about a month after he got home and our dog flat out tackled him and was going nuts licking him and loving him.
The same dog this most recent deployment was so excited he did not know what to do. He didn't go over and say hi to him really. He just started running around in circles jumping on the couch, then off, then on, then off, then running to me as if to say "Did you see...Daddy's home."
This is really strange and maybe TMI but our dog started to eat my under ware..even brand spanking new ones that were in the hamper to be washed before I ever wore them. In 5 years, had NEVER done this until about a couple days after DH got back. I have no idea if it has anything to do with DH getting back, but I thought it was weird that it happened at the same time.
He didn't pee when DH got back, but he started peeing when he would get punished. This is something else he had never done in the 5 previous years we had him. Again, I don't know if they go hand in hand, but it's weird that it started when DH got back.
We got a new dog about 3 months before DH deployed last time. Because of a school he was in and other workups, DH had probably only spent 3 weeks total with him before he deployed. So we were a little concerned about how he would be once DH got back. He was so excited and jumped on him/in his lap and just started loving on him and there haven't been any changes since.
He won't be, no. He wasn't there long enough to accumulate more than he left with.