Home!

Well, after much hassle with United Airlines, my husband is finally home again. He just finished up his “two-week”(ha, ha) annual training (AT) and got home sometime after midnight last night. Due to the fact that he’s an officer, he and one or two others had to go up early for AT this month, meaning that his two weeks in South Dakota were actually three. Factoring in the days he spent up there a couple of months ago to prepare for this AT, it ends up being a month away from home. Then, United Airlines lost his luggage on the way there, and then they had a huge computer glitch that left many stranded last week. This affected his flight home, which was supposed to be on Friday, but ended up finally getting him home late last night (or early this morning, depending on how you look at it) after an all-day excursion through several airports yesterday. I had to laugh over his description of his dealings with United Airlines which he wrote about here. I’m spelling out the name United Airlines as often as I can in this paragraph just so everyone knows that it is United Airlines that did not make for happy flying for my husband and his colleagues – coming or going – that’s two strikes!

Anyway, I am so glad D is finally home. Though I know he’s not gone as much as he probably would be if he were active duty, sharing him with the Army gets old and it’s hard being essentially a single mom when he’s gone. Which seems to be a lot lately. He is with the Army Reserve now, and when he was with the Army National Guard, we used to joke that the whole recruitment thing about “one weekend a month and two weeks a year” is very funny, indeed. It’s a lot, a lot, a lot more than that. He basically has two full-time jobs – his civilian job and his Army commitment. But I really can’t complain too awfully much. I knew when I married him that he had this commitment, and the way things are today is vastly different than they were when we got married 13 ½ years ago. What he does is important, but it does drain family time. But it also makes the time together more precious.

So, he’s home, the boys are thrilled to see Daddy again, and I think Boo still remembers him! :^)

On the home front, VBS started last night at our church, and Tuesday the boys also get to start the VBS at the church down the street which holds theirs in the morning. Busy, busy week ahead. The boys and I went shopping this morning so we can send in the supplies they are collecting for the summer missionaries who are here to work throughout our Association this summer, and the boys were adamant that we must do it this morning.

Happy Monday!