what I have to think about

I just added the new NoJoMo icons to my photobucket… I’m so excited. There are some really awesome ones! And some of them don’t have years on them so I can use them over and over again! YAY!

Nicholai is still not all the way back to his normal self but we are getting closer and closer. He still gets really cranky and still wants held all the time but he has started talking again, he has started eating solid foods again and he has started playing with his toys again. It’s progress in the right direction.

We had Kindermusik today and I’m kinda sad because the woman who teaches it is going to stop after this semester. She is pregnant with baby number 2 and pregnancies are hard on her and her husband is going to be deploying so she is thinking of going back home to Utah. I’m kinda sad because we have been going to Kindermusik with her since Nicholai was 5 months old and now I have to find a new Kindermusik to take him too and the others are all very expensive. *sigh*

I’m trying to think of things that I want for Christmas…. people keep asking me for my list and I can’t really think of anything that I want. Can I have my husband for Christmas? No… well ok, then I don’t know what I want.

I took Nicholai to Babies R Us/Toys R Us so that I could watch his reaction to the toys we walked past so I can start getting his list together too. 

I have to get some cleaning done today, I have to pack up the All Hallow’s decorations and get the fall decorations out and the winter decorations ready. I have to make a packing list and get Chris’s Christmas care package ready because it has to be sent out soon if it’s going to get to him on time. Every time I stop to think about what I need to do I realize that I have to add more things to my list then I have to cross off. Grrrr.

Chris got his dates for block leave after this deployment. And once he gets back from block leave they are going to jump right back into training for the next deployment in July. Ugh. And if he somehow doesn’t get put on that one then he would leave in early 2012. Ugh. Did I ever say that I was sick of the Army and want out? No. Well I’m sick of the Army and I want out! But we are stuck for the rest of our lives because I don’t think Chris plans on getting out in 2015. *huge sigh* Oh well… I married into this life and I will suck it up and deal because I have to, but I hate to think how much time I’m going to miss with my husband over the next 13 years of our lives. I will stand by him because I love him and I’m proud of him and what he is doing but I hate to think about all the years we are going to end up apart because of the Army, because of this war. SUCKS!