Dirty D Word

The dirty D word has been flying around our house a lot lately. I don't like talking about it, want to stay in my little bubble of denial! All of my fellow military friends know what I'm talking about....deployment.
It's kind of hard to not talk about it. Especially since I want to start blogging daily again and don't think I can do that without talking about Tom and where he is. I was reluctant to put it out there. I have no desire to put it on Facebook because I'm not very good at unfriending or denying friend requests to people I wouldn't normally keep in touch with. I'm sure we all have those friends on there. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Anyway, My blog is way more personal and I figured if you read my blog, then you're close to me an my family in someway. So here it is...Tom's deployed. :-( he left on June 22nd, spent a week at Fort Benning in Ga. Then left from there and made his way to Afghanistan. He'll be spending the next 6 months at Camp Eggers in Kabul. We're very spoiled with how often we've gotten to talk to him and I'm not sure what we'd do without Skype and my iPhone! :-) (there's an app for that!) Tom's doing well, getting adjusted and settled in with his job. The people he's working with seem to be great so I'm pretty relieved in that regard.
The boys are doing well too. I'm not sure how much they totally understand but we talk about it and I'm keeping them busy and distracted with lots of fun stuff that I'll be blogging about. We spent a week at the beach with my family and now we're in Pa for a few weeks. I'm not sure if it's better to keep them distracted or me. :-) but so far it's working.
We miss Tom terribly! I know we've been lucky with the lack of our deployments! Its part of being in the Army. Im not complaining! But I am pretty happy it's only 6 months!
Get ready for more blogs from me and lots of pictures! Tom will appreciate being able to check the blog instead of me crashing his email with pictures and videos of the kids. Hahaha!
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