Well it would seem to me that I have gotten a promotion that I wasn't really looking forward to ... I liked where I was but I get to move up again. It's not really bad, but I prefer where I was. Tammy is staying with us but she got a full time position at another place; it seems that her spot & my spot switched! What an interesting thing for me ... really interesting. I am wondering now if I am getting the pay raise with it? (to shorten that, we are still waiting for my last pay for the last promotion!)

Seems that one of the friends that I have decided to call today. This was another major shock to me, some thing that I was not expecting. I was out looking for a movie (Doom) that my kids & I are going to watch ... came back & amazingly found the call on the caller ID. What an amazing thing to happen. I called her back, no answer ... then she called back & we talked. It was interesting, seems she called because she got my e-card hoping all was well ... go figure. Sink & drowned ... but she gave me some good gossip. LOL Oh well, life goes on. We will just have to wait & see what happens. The way I see it, you have to call because you want to & not because you got a card that was sent up to send a while ago. (I am horrid with getting regular cards, so I use them ... shot me. I send them & I set them up in advance. Keeps me from running late.)

I tried calling my sister today. No answer ... not a shock there. She prob won't answer the phone for a while when I call because I haven't talked to her in a while. She probably sitting in VA stewing about why I haven't called her ... LOL Part of me hasn't called because it's the same situation over & over. The other part simply hasn't had the time. No honestly ... I haven't had tolerance to listen to her bitch about her husband's ex wife. Let me tell you ... the woman could write a book that would keep you interested. UNTIL it went into repeatation. Then you would go to sleep! (1 ... 2 ... out like a light) All in all, she's a great person ... if she stayed of that one topic.

My son's teacher seems to think she has the answer for all his problems. This is getting to be a mild line between humour & insaine! She calls me weekly with "ideas" to help my son ... yet they do not work. Instead of just listening to what I have to say. After all, I have only raised him, cared for him for his ENTIRE life!!! I wouldn't have the slighted idea how to get him to do his work ... yet we just have to try this & that. The bouncing from this to that is what is messing my son up. (Probably why we wanted to cut off his finger?) All in all when you are working with a child you have to remain steady & then you can find out what really works with them. Otherwise you will fail not only yourself but that child. She is working on failing my son. This meeting will put an end to that. We are going to do this & we are going to stop bouncing from this idea to that idea. Because any child needs to have a steady ground ... not a bouncy ground! "Thanks & have a nice day."

My husband left today for the field ... once again I am a "single" mom for about a very short time. Don't get me wrong, because I have been a real single mom ... I know he's coming back. But I get the whole deal without dad being around. Let me tell you, after being a single mom once already, this is a walk in the park. But it is still hard & difficult. I am use to having him here ... & he's not. With working, this is one step we haven't taken in a long time & we are doing it again now with older kids. I guess it's good to do a little time because it could be worse when it is a lot long.

In the end, he will come back & I will here "I cannot believe how you did this with out me." (& with a job, too.) He's sweet about that. But to be honest, I know I miss him, & that I want him here. I can survive this ... & pretty much any thing that is thrown at me.  That doesn't mean I want him gone. "Been there, done that" way to many times. That is all I can say when it comes to this.

Thing I love the most is the phone calls when I don't expect them, the little things he does. Which is hard in the field, but he always manages to find a way. (I never expect him to call ... he's always to busy.) I got this amazing charm bracelet when he was in Iraq ... sorry ladies you may have gotten flowers but to me this beat them all. A charm for him, & then one for each of my kids ... I cried 'til I couldn't cry any more. Those are the "little" things I love when he is gone ... things I never expect but love when he does them. If he does, then he does but he sends cute little text messages too ... LOL Cute but I love him. (I do the same to him)

All in all ... I want this over. Pity I cannot twitch my nose & it all be over with. Him walking back though my door, but life doesn't move that fast.

Magic doesn't work in that fasion ... & if it did, we would be in a world of hurt!