trying to update

I don’t know how long I will have to write. Nicholai is coming to the end of his nap and I’ve been watching him move around on the monitor so I don’t know how much longer he will stay asleep. I have so much that I want to write… I’ve been preoccupied with knitting. I got a book to teach myself how to knit for my birthday from my sister. I had mentioned to her that I wanted to learn to hence the book. And now… she is hinting that she wants something I’ve made for Christmas. Knitting is not as easy as it looks…. and I’m working on a scarf and I can tell…. it’s going to take me atleast a month at this rate to even have enough length, let alone put the fringe on! I had no idea that knitting was so involved or took so long. I def have my work cut out for me if I’m going to get this done before I leave for Jersey again.

Vacation was good and bad. The whole windsheild mess is still going on. A claim has been filed and now I just have to wait and see if the company will pay us back. I’m thinking they won’t… because there is no police report but there was no way I was going to pull over and call 911 and wait for them to get to me and file a report when I was still 2 hours from Jersey and it was just me and Nicholai had already woken up a couple times. So I just kept on driving.

Gah… deployment fairy.

Nicholai is still sick. He ended up having an ear infection right before we left for Jersey. Well we did the antibiotics that I was given and by the time we got back from Jersey he was coughing and had a constantly runny nose. So I take him back to the ped and now he has broncholitis and a double ear infection and was wheezing. So we got a new antibiotic, a steriod to help dry up his lungs and our own nebulizer. We just went back to his ped today and his lungs sound better but the double ear infection is still going. He has been sick now for a month and we still have 3 more weeks to go until something happens. Hopefully!! Because if this antibiotic doesn’t work they want him to go in 3 times a day for 3 days for shots to clear up his infection. And I don’t want to put Nicholai through that. I don’t want to go through that and I don’t want to have to watch Nicholai go through that with Chris deployed.

I can’t believe that we are 50+ days into this deployment. I looked at my ticker the other day and I remember thinking I can’t wait to get to 50 days and now here we are…. over 50 somehow?! In a little more then 50 days it will be Samhain already!! I’m not even ready to celebrate, and I have to do Chris’s care package for Samhain still. Time is going by so fast. And I will admit I had some rough days, during vacation especially, but for the most part I’m really doing ok. I can still drive and sing to the music, I laugh with Nicholai all the time. I still have yet to have that break down I was waiting for, I still haven’t cried. It’s crazy. I thought it was going to be so hard, and yes there were hard days but that’s all they were…. just a day here or there.

Dear Deployment,
We are SOOOOO going to kick your ass!

I have so much more to write, I have to change my ticker, I have to add a Samhain ticker, I have to load some pictures…. ahhhh another day I guess.