Here We Go Again

One week down.

Yep. The countdown has begun again. Three years, one marriage, and one child later I am finding myself back at the very beginning. Rich is being deployed once again. . . he is in Fort Bragg, New Jersey right now but in two months he will be on a plane to Iraq.

Last week the family sent him off and said our goodbyes. It was all rather dramatic. No. . . not because I was sobbing, TJ (my son) was holding on to Daddy's pant leg, and Samantha was pulling him off of the bus. But rather, because Sam slipped, fell, and busted her chin wide open. She even chipped a tooth.

The drama has settled after a week. Sam is healing nicely, and I am trying my best to keep some kind of order and control about me. I think it will be the best way I know how to cope. Schedules, a neat house, routine. This is what is going to help me pass the time.

51 more weeks to go.