Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Staying busy..

      For 8 years I built a life with my soldier. We branched out away from home, we rely on only eachother, raise 2 boys together, and every decision we make is as a team. When you take the soldier away to attend to his duties...then what? The first couple weeks everytime I would pull up in my car seeing my husband Mustang parked when it shouldnt be there it should be gone with my soldier in it. I would sit in my car and cry bc I couldnt believe that he was 7,433 miles away from me. How was I going to do this alone? People kept saying to me "Its ONLY 9 months." but I struggled to do a day, then go to bed alone. How was I going to do "only" 9 months? Before my soldier left he told me I needed to stay busy. At the time I thought "I still have 2 kids OF COURSE Im going to be busy." I hated feeling in a slump when as my soldier would say "We dont have a choice." So I had to pull myself together. Before my soldier left Dylan and I made a huge list of things we were going to do while dad was gone...
This list had some big things like going to an amusement park, the zoo, travel home to see family, go to a circus, and little things like Eat ice cream for dinner, pillow fight, build a fort, cook marshmellows on a fire. The reason for the list was to stay focus on staying busy, not so much about the things we were going to do.
We did LOTS of things...

Went to the Cheyanne Moutain zoo to see the new Elephant Exhibit...
Went to Monkey buisness, Jump N Jacks, House of bounce...

Had playdates...

Soccer...

Ate shark at the balloon glow...

lots of park time and picnics...

Gymnastics

started 2nd grade...

Had friends over...

Track..

Baseball...

 Sports camp...

Had a visitor for a few weeks this summer...


 fishing
Easter...

Went to Pikes Peak...

park fun...

Went home to Iowa and spent much needed family time...

Amusement park in Denver...

Saw Great Grandpa Killion

Went to the circus...

Someone turned TWO! 


Went to Garden of the Gods for walks and bike rides...
more fishing.

Just to name a few. Lets just say we were BUSY!!!! Through the 9 months... Mike lost his grandma, his sister had their first baby, Mason started to walk, Dylan passed the swim test to go off the diving board. Dylan lost his first baby tooth, Dylan got glasses, Mason was cleared from Cardiology, Mason got braces for his feet... On top of extra things we did we had daily therapys for mason, doc appointments, baseball, track, sports camp, gymnastics (both the boys), mason had kinderjam,
Did we stay busy? YES! 
Did it help? Maybe! 
LOL 

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