The Last Box

Here it is, the last box we are sending Daddy for this deployment. We could not really send him anything that he had to bring home because he is getting ready to send all his belongings aside from his A and B bags back to North Carolina. We made sure we packed everything, lots of pictures and letters, snacks, a cd, new razors . . . you know all the important stuff. Some baked goods will go in before it is sealed (before we also included books, games, clothing, soap and anything else he needed).





As soon as this box is gone we are going to start planning for his homecoming. I have already ordered a big banner to hang on the garage door and I am going to make some fun countdown projects with the kids, meal plan his favorite dinners and hopefully plan a camping trip. We are all so ready to be done with this deployment, we want our him as far from the Middle East as possible and of course home with us for good! I am excited to be a normal (whatever that really means :-P ) family again, for my kids to know what it is like to have a daddy that comes home every night (they are constantly confused that other daddy's come home and are not gone for long periods of time) I am also looking forward to a break. When James is gone it is hard in all aspects but lately the emotion toll has been hard on me. I am so looking forward to a break, not from my kids really but from being . . . well everything and doing everything. And I am never doing yard work again . . . at least not the big stuff :P