Lions and Tigers and Bears OH MY...well maybe not...

SO today we went to Charlestowne landing.  By we I mean my "sister" and her kids...technically Its my acutual sister-in-law...well its her brother and his wife and kids...but for the sake of NOT making EVERYONE"s head spin...lets just say we call each other family and love to do so! ANYways, she has 3 boys Jackson (5 going on 25 :0) love him) Luke (4) and Levi who is 3 weeks younger than Christian!  Noah who is the gargantuan sized 2 year old LOVEs them and the lils just hang together!!!  So we thought we would head to the "Animals" as the boys loved to see so much and see what we could get into!  boy did they have fun! and she got some precious pictures! 


SO now for a few ramblings of things i have learned...

I hate night time alone, its too quiet.  yeah during the day if I can get the kids to nap at the same time...which i usually am Not successful at...i enjoy maybe an hour of quietness but i don't like sleeping alone in the dark...i didn't mind it so much when i worked day shift because well..its just different...but hey, its alright.  i know it will get easier...9 more weeks isn't a life time...i know people leave for much longer and iknow he is leaving again probably but you know what...i don't ever have to like it...am I proud of him...OF COURSE....do i regret any of his decisions...NEVER....but i just don't have to like it...who says i have to be ok with it.

I honestly feel bad for and pity our society.  We have forgotten how to communicate.  i mean REALLY communicate...we have cell phone, texting, facebook, BLOGGING, skype lol, and everything at our fingertips...we have instant and full on commuication to anyone, anywhere,  any time we want it...and we STINK at using it!  we talk all day long...we use USELESS words to babble on about peoples days and stupid things and even the simplest I LOVE YOU isn't heard or even MENT anymore...I bet that its a HUGE reason why marriages fail....the reason why people from 50 years ago stayed married for EVER is because they courted each other and wrote love letters.  I have realized how intimate love letters can be....no i am not talking scandleousness here...but really expressing things.   someone personally i can hear someone say i love you a thousand times, i can read a text message, but if i see it on a letter, written down with ink and a pen it has the power of a thousand horses.  call me crazy but I made myself a promise that at the end of this 10 weeks (9 now) even when josh and I are together I will not stop writing him letters.  the art of pursuit is one that should never die...especially when married...maybe we would have a chance at long marriages again if other people caught on to this....just a thought.....but remember....

pull the pin and throw the grenade :0)