taking FJ to the grocery store today in the hope that I might get some people to cut me slack and help me out, but then I decided to go to the commissary, so there isn’t a lot of sympathy to be had there. We’ll have a fun day tomorrow though, and we hope you do as well. Love and thanks to all of you!!
*also, adding to the list of thank you’s to FJ: the garbage man, who always stops and waits for me because he knows I forget to take my can out until I hear the truck because trash has always been Real Jared’s thing, and the woman working at the library who served 20 years herself from Vietnam through the first Gulf War
we take FJ to the recycling center with us!!
we went over to our friend’s house to help her sort through boxes of stuff because she’s moving. You wouldn’t BELIEVE the goofy fun you can have with random stuff you find…or maybe you would….
We took the boys in for haircuts and FJ was due for one too. He was so good that he even got a lollipop!
Our oldest son, sleeping in his tent on the bedroom floor, with a picture of his dad tucked behind his pillow.
Yesterday he told me that “daddy isn’t just gone because he loves us.”
“Oh?” I replied
“He’s gone because he loves our whole country and he wants to keep everyone safe from bad people”
From the mouths of babes indeed…
Turtwig(I think, I’m not so good with the Pokemon stuff) thinks FJ makes a perfect “hang-out”.
it was a fairly decent day.
We got a late start because Real Jared was able to call us! Everyone(well, everyone who can talk) got to talk to him and it was great, the boys really loved it. We headed to the base to go bowling but the Funspot was closed! Hey, it’s a federal holiday that almost everyone on base has off and kids are out of school, so let’s close. I understand it, but it made my life more difficult and that’s what’s really important here, right? 
So we drove into town to a different bowling alley, only to find that there was a 45 minute wait for a lane. Geez, does everyone in this town go bowling on their days off or what? The counter help gave me directions to another bowling alley so we headed out, again. Third times the charm because they had a couple lanes open. The boys bowled a game while I sat to the side with the baby and FJ. I don’t know if it was because of Veterans Day or because I had 4 crazy kids with me, but we had 3 people send their thanks to Real Jared and one gentleman very kindly took both of my hands in his, looked me in the eye, and thanked me for everything I do holding down the fort at home. It was a nice moment, and something I really need from time to time. The older gentleman working behind the counter and I struck up a conversation. He is a veteran, and like most men in his position, pleaded ignorance when I thanked him and shook his hand. “In my day”, he said “serving your country is what you did, it was your duty and the price you paid for the privilege of living in a free country”. Amen my friend, amen.
A few video games, picked up a couple half price pizzas from Papa Murphys(Tuesday is military discount day), and we went home for some dinner. Played, ate, dropped Donovan off at home, drove back and put the kids in bed. Not to shabby…
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