Ok, I think we have to call this "Week 0," for a few reasons. First. Chris hasn't made it to Afghanistan yet. I'm not sure when her 'deployment clock' starts, maybe it already has, but really it doesn't matter because she'll get back when they are ready to give her back, which will be only approximately a year from now. The other reason is that this was spring break for the kids, and honestly I could have done without that for the first week of this little adventure.
It wasn't really too bad, though. Johnny did have an ear infection which turned into a cold which made him cough a few nights which kept me up, but honestly it wasn't like I'm sleeping great now anyway. But at least he didn't miss any extra school, I guess. When I send them back on Monday, I have to send a note explaining why they were absent for three days last week. I'm writing the same thing as I have for the past few months when Chris came home for a few days at a time and we kept them out of school or got them out early or brought them in late: "Military Leave."
Cara was, is, always will be a bit of a pistol. She generally requires a coterie of friends who she can rotate through (throughout any given day or, really, hour) so that she remains constantly entertained. We did our best. Cara and I also have an ongoing battle over that most favorite of household guests: stink bugs. When she sees one, you'd think the thing had made a go for her jugular. I kinda yelled at her the other night, so we had a long talk about it. She says she's scared, and I can really understand that. What I told her was that it's ok to be scared, but you have to work to put that fear aside a bit, because if you don't you end up giving the thing you're scared of way too much power over you. And aside from smelling awful, I've never seen a stink bug do anything. God, I envy them...
Anyway, we compromised: when she sees one, she's to calm herself down, calmly tell me about it, and then I'll take care of it. Hopefully, we can work toward a little more action on her part, but I'm just as happy to be rid of the screeching...
Flew kites on Sunday. Well, Cara and a friend and I flew them. Johnny sat in the car. Fun.
Trissolcus wasps!! Cara needs to breed them and unleash them and hope they return the favor. At the very least she should dress up as one and hope to scare the bejeesus out of those nasty stinkbugs.
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