OMG... That's all I can say...

The past couple weeks have been the craziest ride ever. I have been on an emotional roller coaster. Maybe lots of things contributing to this but it's really affecting me. I am trying to keep smiling, trying to keep up the new year, new cheer attitude but it's turning more into new year, new fears...
Let me start by saying Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The girls were dismissed early Thursday and Friday. And they are out of school today and tomorrow.

Last week, there was a huge earthquake in Haiti. Port Au Prince was destroyed and they are as of today estimating the death count to be about 100,000. Seabees from Gulf Port, MS are being sent over, the news says. Many of them fresh out of boot camp. They were interviewing this chief who was saying there was no way to prepare them for what they were about to see. Their job is to clear roads of whatever may be in the way, including bodies...

I bought and watched a movie last week called the Hurt Locker. It was a very good movie. About an EOD team, very dangerous work that only a group of lunatics would want to do. Between that and the news of the Gulf Port Seabees and their tasks, I am in awe of our military. What they must
endure for the greater good. It's amazing to me. I have a space in my heart for each and every one of them.

I sent Malt-o Meal in a care package for 2 of the guys with my hubby. One of them got moved to a different part of the country. The wife of the other one tells me yesterday, he loves it but he doesn't know how to make it. She makes it for him. I am like (to myself) he's a Seabee, he can build, he can fight, but he can't make malt-o meal??? Scary... LOL

This is one Monday that passed very quickly. That is a very good thing. I am really looking forward to the end of this deployment. That's an understatement. I have been able to talk to the hubby a bit here and there the last few days. We went a few days with no contact last week. Found out it was because of a sandstorm knocking out Internet and phone connections. That was torture!

Valentine's Day will be here before you know it. I have a few cards I have found that I really liked to send to the hubby. Gift? I don't know. I want to give him me... Too bad I can't ship myself in a box with a big red bow tied around my waist.