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Woo Friday!
How was this week for you ladies?
Are you glad it's over?
Mine was great, but I am so glad it's done with because my Dad is coming to visit tomorrow. 
I can't wait for him to see our house and just hang out with him. H will be on TDY for most of it, so it will just be him and me. I haven't spent much time alone with my dad in a long time. It should be interesting.
I am officially on Spring Break, which was nice but didn't come without a ton of homework. *sigh* I have so much to do for my grad-level class that it is unreal and really intimidating. Oi. If I can survive this, I can survive anything I guess.
Re: Woo Friday!
Yay for a visit from your dad and boo to lots of homework.
I called out of work again today because I'm still dealing with this allergy/sinus thing...but no fever this morning so that's a step in the right direction.
Tomorrow night is my SIL's bachelorette party. It's supposed to be low key...we're just meeting at a local bar.
Yay for Dad's visiting!!!
This week was a week. I came home at lunch yesterday and didn't go back to work. I felt like death, however after a 4 hour nap and a good nights sleep I feel like new!!!
Working today. Going up to our parents for the weekend for a crab feed and just to hang out with family. Should be fun!
This week was all sorts of confusing, and I could never remember what day it actually was, so I was very happy to realize it's Friday. Friday is the only day I work right now, but I work from home and it's ridiculously easy and slow so it's not even like I'm working,
So last night I realized how clever my H can get while on the other side of the world. My phone doesn't always tell me when emails come through, and he gets frustrated when he wakes up and is emailing and I'm not there, and he doesn't always want to go get a phone card to make sure I'm ok. So what does he do? He realizes that he can use our online monitoring with ADT Pulse to arm our alarm system on me, thus scaring the crap out of me. After I search to make sure both of our remotes are there (because scared me thinks someone broke into the house when I was in the bathroom or something and stole our alarm remote) I realize that it's just H telling me he's up.
What a jackalope! I'm like you...I would totally think someone broke in and stole my ADT remote.
Yeah, that would freak me out. Ugh.
Started off my Friday with a prenatal massage and breakfast from Chick-Fil-A; now I'm all content and sleepy and trying to work. Not having much luck. Tonight having dinner at my parent's house with my aunt and uncle that I haven't seen since my sister's wedding 3.5 years ago.
Nothing much planned for the w/e; looking forward to sleeping in and not waking up to an alarm clock, need to give my car a deep cleaning and install the car seat base. May enlist K to do the grunt work on that; I cannot imagine trying to get all the nooks and crannies right now.
Thinking about taking a nap at lunch; it is rainy out and I'm feeling oh so sleepy.
I think I would hurt somebody from long distance. Ick.
It wasn't so bad because the system just armed, didn't go off blaringly loud or anything. But it's definitely that scary WTF moment for a minute wondering what's going on.
I'm sort of glad that this week is over. On the one hand it was really difficult, but on the other hand DH was home with me most of the time. Next week is Spring break so I'll be home a lot but without DH during the day. Yesterday was a trial but I made it through. We had a private funeral for DH and I and brought the urn home with us afterward even though we have no idea what to do with it.
Tonight I'm supposed to go to dinner with some FRG ladies (they're pretty much my closest friends in the area) and it's the first time I've seen any of them since everything happened so I've got my fingers crossed that everything goes well. I'm excited and apprehensive at the same time.
This week sucked. I am so glad H will hopefully be home this weekend. (It was suppose to be today but plane malfunctions pushed it back two days). Yesterday was by the worst day this week and it ended with me scheduling surgery later this month for my knee. Tonight I am going to drink and take a bubble bath. then if i can get my knee to feel a little better i might try to mow the lawn before H comes home otherwise he will have to do it.
The Dogs and Us
Stella, I'm so impressed by how strong you are. Many prayers still going out to you and your DH from me. xoxo
Weekends don't mean a whole lot to me since DH isn't home anyways. The girls and I went to a playgroup this morning and had fun. They're both napping right now and I'm trying to get stuff done before they wake up. I would really like to nap along with them though! I just have to make it to 8:30pm tonight when my doula (who is also a massage therapist) is coming over to my house to give me a massage. Can. Not. Wait.
This. You are amazing.
Yay, Friday!
It's been a weird week. Started with Mom and Dad in town visiting, while DH and I are trying to figure out this whole paleo thing (which isn't compatible with how my parents eat, so meals were fun). And then this morning I had my counselling appt, followed by the abortive attempt to get decals. Timing might not have been the best on that...
And tonight, DH has duty. Bleh! But, a buddy of mine who's husband is deployed, is coming by and we're going to make plans for our Relay for Life team, which has me pretty excited. We'll head out for Pho, too, which is, so far, the only meal out I've figured I can reliably do on this diet. (even steakhouses tend to put butter on everything, and dairy is out - at pho I can ask them to use no noodles, and it all works out OK) So, I'm looking forward to a night of no cooking...
I just got to my moms and now I'm waiting for the people to call me for my interview. I set an alarm on my phone and can't remember if I set it for my time or eastern time. Ah well.
Stella - hugs
This. You are amazing. Hugs.
My Mom's ashes are in the closet at my Dad's house. He takes a little of her to different places and puts her ashes there. There is some of her in her bff's garden, and as soon as E and I get our garden figured out this spring she'll be there too. I don't know if you guys are living somewhere where you will be for a very long time or if you have a place you can do this but maybe buy a tree that you like and plant it, placing a little of the ashes under it? Just a thought.
LL, the hits just keep comin', huh? Good luck pushing through. One day, you will look back on this time and be very proud of all that you are doing for YOU! I know that right now, you are simply trying to get through each day. But, you are doing good things for yourself!
This is our last weekend in the States. I've been busy on my "farewell tour". It's been fun seeing friends and hanging out, but I am getting so freaking sad. This has been, by far, the most difficult of our moves. Part of it is how far away we are moving, but more so, I think, that this was our family's first home. I have so many memories of DH, LO and myself in our house and in the area. LO is struggling too. When I go somewhere without him, I always remind him the "mama always comes back". LO has taken to talking to "Baby Smudge" and saying that "Baby Smudge is sad, mama back-back". I'm not sure how he's going to react to DH deploying this spring. Ugh.
But, I'm supposed to have dinner with one of my dearest friends tonight. This will be our first kid-free outing ever!! (She has a little one who is four months younger than my LO.).