Soon!!!!

Eric will be home SO soon. Due to OPSEC (Operations Security) I won't say the exact day, but soon!!! This morning, I went shopping with my little BFF (Carissa, duh!) and bought a new outift to wear when he comes home. I was getting so giddy. I'm like a schoolgirl! When I sit back and think about it, it is SUCH an amazing feeling. Usually the "butterflies" fade within months of dating. But, military spouses are lucky. We get to feel the butterflies a lot. After he is in the field for a week or month, when he gets back from deployment...it's remembering those beginning feelings all over again. When seeing him is the only thing you can think of. When he reaches across the front seat of the car on the way home from the 'Homecoming' and grabs my hand...Swoon!! I suppose I love him a little bit.

I am super excited for the kids to see him again. Carissa has grown so much, and Robert is such a big kid now! Eric is going to get such a kick out of them. Carissa walks around saying "hi dad, hi dad." I wonder what she will say when she actually sees him?!?! And Robert...well, there is only so much a Mom can do. He is getting older and needs his Dad more. I don't speak "football." Eric does.

Pictures and lots of excitement to come within the next week!! Check back!

03/24/2011        the day he left...