I went less than a month since my last entry! Getting better!
I'm taking a 30 day hiatus from Facebook. I found myself being less social because of it. When I wondered how someone was doing, instead of texting or calling them, I'd just scroll down on facebook and check out their status. Done and done.
So it's been a week and I still have a habit of automatically typing facebook.com into the browser, although I'm not logged in. I deleted it from my phone (as that is where I normally check facebook) and haven't really missed it. Matter of fact, the boys and I went to eat tonight and I found myself being annoyed when my husband grabbed his phone and was on facebook. It doesn't normally happen that he is EVER on facebook, but someone sent him a message and he was reading it. Not that I got pissy about it, but he ended up apologizing for doing it.
Friday was mandatory fun day for my husband's company. They ended up doing a BBQ at the local park. I became very annoyed when I found out that my husband's station was the station tasked with all the preparations and providing all the food. The whole company donated money for the meats that were bbq'd, but as for side dishes....the wives of my husband's station was tasked with making it all. I made 3 dozen deviled eggs and a HUGE portion of green bean casserole. My husband and 2 other recruiters from his station spent the whole time manning the grills, so that sucked. And when it was all done, all the wives from the other companies just packed up their families and left...while myself, another wife from our station all cleaned up the area.
Whatever.
Several months ago I filled out an application for my son to be able to go to Operation Purple summer camp. It's a week long free summer camp for military kids. Usually for kids who have a parent that is deployed or has recently been deployed. Kiddo's dad has been deployed 4 times, 3 times since the boy was born (including when he was born!), but his last deployment was 3.5 years ago, thanks to recruiting duty. I knew he wouldn't be top priority because Dad isn't currently deployed or a wounded warrior, but I was hoping he'd make his way up the wait list.
AND BAM, on Friday I got the phone call saying he was off the wait list and if he still wanted to attend, I needed to fill out some forms and fax them in!
I'm so excited for him, but so nervous for him. He's never been separated from us for that period of time, except for when he was with my Mom. I know he'll be ok, and I know he'll be super busy the whole time that he won't have time to miss us. And I'm doing my absolute best to be so excited for him...but I know 100% that I'm going to bawl my eyeballs out when I drop him off. Plus, it's 7 hours away, so that's gonna suck! I'll be a big mess that whole time he is gone.
But super excited for him, and I know it'll be an experience he'll cherish forever.
I'm getting to go to my first professional football game! Granted, it's pre-season, and it's not even teams that I especially LOVE, but free tickets are free tickets! The husband is getting them through work...living in a mostly civilian area, they love to give free tickets to military members and their families. I've been to Yankees games, Mets games, Islanders games, and tons of other things. Anyway, we're seeing the Giants vs. the Steelers on August 9th. So excited.
Oh, the kiddo is up for his next belt in Karate. His karate academy asks up to fill out a behavior chart for the month leading up to graduation, as well as having his teacher fill out a paper reporting her thoughts on his behavior. His teacher filled it out right before school ended. Sensei hasn't been at the academy for the past 2 weeks, so there has been no testing, but he said he'd test the kiddo next week, since he'll be gone for summer camp the week after. So, he'll move up to Orange belt. He was also asked to move up to the next level of classes (Blackbelt Leadership Class), but I'm not so sure we're going to do that. Doing so would mean that we would have to buy sparring equipment which is like $300. We're not 100% sure we're ready for the kind of commitment since we're moving in 6 months and we're not totally sure there will be a place close to us that will allow his belts and stuff transfer over to a new school.
I'm headed to bed. Hope y'all have a great week!
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