Aug. 29, 2007

Well, today is the first day I've thought about having to send Phil back and man does that stink! He encouraged me to get out of the house for a pedicure, so I uploaded some pictures and had Walmart do the one hour processing thing. I bought him a brag book and a frame so he can have a picture of his family either on his desk at work or in his room. Then I spent a few minutes filling the pages of his brag book with pictures from the past couple of weeks. Of course, I was crying the entire time, in the Walmart parking lot.

I am really going to miss having him around. He's been great about burping her, feeding her bottles when I need to sleep, doing laundry, holding her, doing dishes, cooking dinner, bringing me water, basically being my cabana boy. It's been wonderful! I don't remember him having been so helpful before, since he was working all the time, but I do know he did a lot of stuff around here that I never gave him enough credit for.

Anyway, mom is leaving Nebraska to come here tomorrow. She'll be driving and will make it sometime on Saturday. I think part of Phil wants mom to take him to the airport, so we don't have a mushy goodbye in the terminal, and so he can keep up his tough Army guy thing while in uniform. I don't blame him at all - I know if he says his goodbyes at home, he'll have the drive to the airport to let it all go..... in fact, when he left last November, he left the house like normal in the morning, and so did I. It wasn't until I went to pick up his car from the airport that it sunk in that he was gone. And then it really sunk in. This is the hardest part, but once we get through it, we'll be on the downhill slide for this deployment. Instead of counting down the days until leave, we'll be counting down the days until he's home for good.