Having Hubby home has been awesome. I am worn out though. I stay home more when he is gone but running errands with the man is awesome. Tomorrow we are heading out, even with ice, to have a night at a bed n breakfast in east Texas. I am excited and ready to be just me.

It is flipping cold. Hubby's truck's rear view mirror tells the temp. well at noon today it was ICE and 36 degrees. It has done nothing but get colder since. We are still leaving tomorrow though. We need a break and will be taking. After we get back form our night away we will be heading to my Dad's house for a few days. It will be our third Christmas and I am glad it is the last. I am tired of Christmas and wrapping presents. We bout the kids a family present that we are trying to wrap up and let each one open. My Dad bought them a TV to replace the one they use to watch TV. I hope they will be happy. I am off to pack and do laundry and shower. I still have classes tomorrow so it will be a long week for me.

R&R has begun and it is my birthday. I have had a most wonderful day. Hubby treated us to a pedicure and bought me an IPod. I am so excited. He is transferring all my music from my old machine so I can put it on my new machine and convert the files to whatever I need and away I go. I am stoked. :)

R&R still has not started. I am getting antsy. I can say I am almost done with the stuff I wanted to do before Hubby came home for a visit. I even waxed my own eyebrows today. It was a little painful, ok it was really painful. I am glad I do not have to do that everyday. Anyway, the Kiddos have an idea of when their Daddy will be here but not exactly when. Of course neither do I. I think I do but the Army has a way of playing with your thought process.

The Baby just told me I was his maid. He is not my maid but I am his maid. All because I will not go find his shoes he took off on his own and did not put back where they belong. I am HIS maid. I just laugh.

Well the days are creeping closer to R&R and I am so excited. I am not fearful like I was back then. All I can do is think about how wonderful it will be to have Hubby home for a few short days and when he returns back to the sandbox we will begin the official countdown to homecoming. I have no fears of not being good enough or what he wants. Through lots of prayer and talks with Hubby I have a new understanding of who I am and what I am. If he likes it and loves it then that is a bonus. I am off to shop with a friend so she can wear something to see a great man speak this week. I am so jealous.

I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I am alive and kicking. Some days I am kicking and screaming, but alive. Christmas break was wonderful but to short for me and to long for the Kiddos. They were bored and trying to kill each other by the end of the second week. The visit with my Mom was different adn I will leave it out that.

Hubby will be home soon, very soon for R&R. The Kiddos know a general time frame but not the date. I am excited and they are too. It is only a visit and I am trying to get myself ready for the goodbye at the end. I am going to enjoy the time we have and the fact that for the first time ever we will be going away for a night to be alone and do what the married couples do. I am off to fold laundry and do some homework. My online course is only eight weeks and will require me to bust my butt to get a better grade than I did the lst time. Yes the class with the horrible instructor I am taking over, this time with someone who is local and is part of the on campus staff. I heard he rocks and the head of the department has already put in a good word for me. So I need to go beyond what is expected of me. Of course, that could just be my over achieving self talking.