Back to the new normal

welcomeFinally!!!.....my hubby is home from school! We're slowly getting back into our old routines, or as similar to them as we can as we all try to adjust to a new job...in a new squadron.
We are now officially halfway thru the pregnancy as well, and last week got a chance to find out the gender.....drum roll please....IT'S ANOTHER BOY!
Our other boy is going to be one year in about 3 weeks, and we are hoping to be with family to celebrate. I have no doubt that he will LOVE digging into a cake all on his own :-)...yes I'm one of those people who thinks that is cute. You're only 1 once, why not?
With age comes character...and our son has it in spades. He does everything on his own timetable. He doesn't seem to think that walking is his thing just yet, but we still try. Every "milestone" has come on his terms....man I love babies lol! He's starting to notice that my belly is growing, and after 6 months of not breastfeeding and not seeming to miss it at all he now has tried to mouth them and has been pawing at them....sorry buster they are brokedown until the next baby gets here.
Life goes on lol....

4 day weekends are never long enough!

When you are in school a 4 day weekend is long and relaxing. You have no school, no homework, sometimes no job to go to, and all that is required is that u pick up after yourself and try not to drive your mother crazy in those extra days. Then you grow up and discover that they are not as fun now as they were then.
You spend all day before it starts anticipating it, the first day is awesome! The second day is good because you realize It's half gone, but that still means the other half is in front of you. The third is ok but you feel a little dread knowing that the fun will only last until tomorrow. Then we get to the last day, no joy to be found and it feels like work to even try to get out of your funk....that's where I am today.
My husband drove down to where the training is, but the minute we crossed the state line I could feel my mood change and so did my husband.
Our son screamed from the time he got out of the car until we were 10 minutes from home. I can't wait til this TDY IS OVER!

Celebration

My husband is home for the long weekend. This is the first time he's been home since he went to training in May, but not the first time he's gotten to see us. It's amazing how different it feels to have him home versus going to visit him where his training is.
It felt like it should have been Christmas the next day, the night before we went to pick him up. It was as if I hadn't seen him in months when it had only been a couple weeks. He was even more relaxed and goofy than I had seen him be since before he left.
10th month old boys have this amazing memory when it comes to their daddy I found out as well. He acted so starved for his.daddy's attention, you would think that mommy never paid any attention to him. His whole face lit up and before daddy even said anything to him he was giggling and moving, trying to get at him, even though all attemps were useless while in the carseat. He went down for a nap with the least amount of fussing I've heard in some time, and sleeps much more soundly. I guess even he feels better and safer when daddy is home.
Our new baby, that I'm 15 weeks pregnant with also wanted to do a little attention getting of his/her own with daddy and kicked me over and over again this morning. This is the first time during this pregnancy that I have felt the baby do that. I love our little show-offs!

motivation

I never used to have a problem being motivated to do things. I found, after I got married that the more my husband was gone, the less motivated I became to do the things that I normally would.
I have to find a way to get myself out of the "deployment funk"....but on the bright side he's not out of the country and we get to spend the whole holiday weekend together.
He has requested "real food" to be the menu for the weekend which is husband speak for all his favorite meals that u make when he is home normally...this, of course fans a woman's pride, which is nice every now and then!
He has also tried to be thoughtful and take me on a date by ourselves, but holidays being what they are, it has now turned into a family date where we will try to get our son to sit happily thru Eclipse and then go to dinner....it matters not that we have to bring the baby I'm just happy that my husband is willing to sit in on what most men consider girl movies just because he knows I like them...I believe that I am blessed!

our basset-chewy

iWe found our dog outside our house in Feb of this year. Our son was 5 months old and the thing that sealed the deal for us to keep him was that when our son would nap he would go lay at the foot of his crib til he woke up and then let us know by whining. The dog still is good with our son, who is now 9 months old, but we have come to find that he's one of the quirkiest dogs either of us have ever encountered
We caught him trying to climb into the livingroom window to sit on the sill like a cat, who is 1/4 his size, he promptly fell out but has tried again countless times since then.
He seems to be the only vegetarian dog in existence. He will eat watermelon off the floor, but if you drop meat he sniffs at it and walks off.
And now we come to the current time. My husband is obviously HIS human. While my husband is at work, even though I'm there, he whines and paces until he drives me crazy and I put him out. When my husband comes home though he magically stops. Now, my husband is TDY and the dog is beside himself. He won't eat very much, he whined the whole first week after my husband left, and the dog still thinks I'm chopped liver and that my only purpose is to let Jim out every now and then.

pregnancy and tricare

I had little difficulty with tricare when I was pregnant with our son, but this pregnancy has just begun and nothing is going well. I'm allergic to one type of medicine they prescribe for nausea, so I have to use the more expensive kind. I can't seem to get my meds refilled, which I was able to do before. I don't understand how narcotics are not only refilable and usually don't have a cap on how many you can take, but a medicine designed for pregnant women is policed as if it were made of solid gold. How do you fight something like this? What am I supposed to do when I get dehydration to the point that I can't take care of my son thee way I need to while my husband is gone? What is it going to take for tricare to realize that sometimes things can't work the way they think they should?

lets start at the very beginning...

...My life as a military wife started November 2008. My husband and I met online, as scary as some have thought that is I never worried about my husband...he gave me his commanders names and let me investigate him! How's that for honesty! In the nearly two years of marriage we have had quite a roller coaster ride. Honeymoon baby, miscarriage, immediately pregnant again, TDYs, a baby in August, family marriages, and fast forward to now...I'm 10 weeks and 6 days pregnant with our second child, who as luck would have it is due the day after Christmas!
With life happening all around I decided I needed an outlet. This blog is for all of you who are in the background, who support your soldier, are a single-married parent on occasion, and who get ignored by the establishment to which your spouses belong because you are "just the civilian wife".