The Kisses Are Almost Gone... Hershey Kisses That Is!

As you can imagine... excitement is starting to fill the air around the Chapman house! We're anticipating Daddy-O's arrival by the end of the week now and the boys' jars of Hershey Kisses are almost gone!

We have a homemade calendar posted to fridge which we are X-ing off the days after dinner every night. Benjamin is thrilled. It's a big cause for celebration and we have made up a new song about it almost every night... tonight's rendition was "3 More Days til Daddy's Home"... that's it... we just repeat it over and over again in a sing songy kinda way! With lots of smiles and excitement of course!

We've been enjoying the nice weather and have been spending some great time outside. Today the boys were so exhausted they were both in bed by 7:15 p.m. We've had a few nights like that recently and it's been kind of a nice break. A big advantage to no nap for Benjamin. And the fact that the sun has been going down earlier makes it so easy to move bedtime up earlier. Some days it makes for an earlier morning the next day but usually we're getting up for some reason or another anyways. And every morning now, I smile as I rise and think "This is the last Saturday, Sunday, Monday, etc. I'll have to spend without my hubby in Iraq!" (Of course, technically, he's already out of Iraq but you know what I mean).

Speaking of Don... he called Sunday afternoon. We only talked briefly (a lil over 7 minutes) due to the fact that he said they were getting ready for formation and there were two other guys still waiting to use the phone. He said the next 36 hours or so would be long. Their bags were packed and they would be moving to a staging area then eventually onto customs and then begin their long journey back to Ft. Lewis, Washington (state) with probably a couple stops on the way.

He said I probably would not hear from him for at least a day or two and so today was rather quiet. No e-mails from him and, of course, no phone calls either. That is a good sign! He's got to be moving out! Moving on! Moving closer to home! woo hoo.