so it's the night before i leave to go to washington and i'm so super excited, i can hardly stand it. i'm not looking forward to riding on a plane for three and a half hours with a four month old but i'm sure i'll manage. it's late here, there was a huge thunder storm and i don't think i'm going to get very much sleep. i'm spending the night at ( Read more... )

nothing much has been going on here. me and gabriel are haning in here without mitch. it's been almost three months already. that seems like a lot until you think that i've still got another year to go. then it's just depressing. stupid extension. we just got over a really nasty stomach bug that had us both puking a whole lot. i got over it within ( Read more... )

so i'm here at kyra's. i've been here since last sunday. it's been a pretty good trip, full of ups and downs like any other time i'm with kyra. for the most part, it's been fun though. we've gone shopping, eaten out and got gabriel's picture taken with the easter bunny ( Read more... )

me and gabriel are sick. i actually had to take him to the emergency room a few days ago because he was wheezing and so congested. turns out he has rsv, which is an upper respiratory virus that is dangerous to babies but usually clears up on its own with older children and adults. so he got a breathing treatment at the hospital and they sent me ( Read more... )

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mitch is heading up to iraq today from kuwait. it sucks, but i knew he couldn't stay in kuwait for very long. i'm actually ok with it; i know he'll be fine and nothing will happen to him. already we have drama going on with this deployment. it's too long and stupid for me to explain because it's one of those things that's little but has been blown ( Read more... )

mitch has been gone a week now. i'm hanging in there. i'm not doing too badly. and yesterday was my first full day all by myself with gabriel since my mom left on saturday. it was a little overwhelming, especially since he and i are both sick with colds at the moment. i ended up balling my eyes out last night but i'm ok now. me and mitch have been ( Read more... )

i got an e-mail from mitch today which made me super happy. he's still in kuwait and they're just sitting around doing nothing. i have no idea when they'll be heading up to iraq, i just hope they'll be safe when they get up there. i'm really scared about him being there this time. it's so much more dangerous now and he'll be in baghdad which is ( Read more... )

mitch left for iraq today. even though i've been through a deployment before, it doesn't make it any easier. i cried my eyes out when i had to say goodbye to him. i'm so sad and angry. it's just not fair. he's going to miss out on so much this next year and he doesn't deserve that. he should be home and able to enjoy his son's first year. it's so ( Read more... )

gabriel had his first doctor's appointment yesterday. he did really good, except for when they had us strip him naked--he didn't like that too much, lol. he's lost five ounces, but they said that's normal and he should get back up to his birth weight within the next couple weeks. i also had to get my epidural blood patch yesterday because when they ( Read more... )