Another Deployment

Okay its another deployment for my Husband/Partner and the sad thing is ... is that Im thinking what is going to get f'd up this time as far as our family lives go. Wont get into details about what happened with one of his past deployments, but i'm sure you all are smart enough.

Ne ways its been a week now that he has been gone and just under a week that we (me my two wonderful boys and two dogs) have been left to fend for ourselves in our new home in a new situation.

I guess I should start off with introductions, okay here it goes. This is my Family!

Lets start with me, prior military 97-05 USAF loved it missed it wish I were back in it, at times. Right now I have to focus on my family life. I met my husband while we were stationed at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany we knew each other for 6 months got married in Dec 99, just a little court wedding, close friends that we considered family (family was state side and couldnt make it out). Had and made many memories in Germany but the most rewarding was the birth of our first son Jr. Thought we were ready to leave Germany boy were we wrong!

We realized that when he was stationed at a base in GA, I never even hear of the place, OMG talk about culture shock I just wanted to be back in Germany and in a ways still do. We are here and things are going we bought our first house in 2005 we just sold it to get a bigger one to accomidate or growing family. We had our second child in 2008.

Jr my first child loves the fact that he is a big brother but often reminds me that he wishes his baby brother was older so they could play. They play but he just wants to get to rough you know how boys are. I love him to death he is the greatest thing since sliced bread honestly! He is an awesome awesome child I am blessed by the love, kindness, and careing personality he shares with everyone, especially his brother. He is the biggest help in my life and I hope he continues to be stong and forgive me when I light a short fuse. I'm here to say I appricate his understanding of how baby brother has to be first at certain times. Such a big boy hugs and kisses to you baby!

JJ, the second most chunky lovable child! He was born 2008. And can I say he was such an easy delievery compared to my first. I just hope that dosnt mean he will give me the most problems, UH OH! Well when he was 9 months he was diagnosed wiht liver failure, thankfully this was caught at a point where he will be fine as long as he is on medication (steriods, which cause side effects) We just hope and pray every day that he will be able to be weaned off the medication and live a healthy normal life. At the time when this all happening with JJ my husband was traiing with the Army to go on yet another deployment. I was able to work with the Red Cross, advice given to me by my sons doctors because they were not sure what was wrong with him or which way things would go for him, a very scary thing to have to deal with by myself. So I was all for contacting the Red Cross and getting my husband home for the support I needed.

It was the hardest week in my entire life and I can relate to those who have a sick child its not fun especially when you dont know what to expect. I beat myself up alot trying to figure if there was something I had done. I would ask the doctor over and over is this something I did or is this something I should of caught earlier. Constant if I, should I, what if, if onlys.....Im just blessed that we are at a good point now.

I also have two other family memebers that I have to let you all know about Kuma and Yoshi. Kuma is our Yellow Lab who we got from germany who had to be flown to us cause he was to young to leave his mama. His daddy was also a dog we had before but I had to find a new home for when my husband was on a deployment and I was in the military with a new baby and adjusting to being a mom for the first tme. I foung the perfect home and decided I had to take a piece of our beginning to the nextpart of our life ;)

Yoshi well he is really new to the family I got his as an early Christmas Present for me and my Kuma mainly Kuma. Kuma and Kaila (Beagle also from Germany, who we found a home for beacuse she was to honery and needed more space to run and smell and dig) well we kept the first one out of the litter Baloo and around June of this year decided to give him to my sister. My sister and Nephew are in their new home with a yard with a fence and he loved Baloo when he meet him and I wanted to keep him in the family. Plus he is autistic and I thought this may help in some way. So they have included our little Baloo in their family ;)

But Kuma has been kind of sad about the whole thing so we decide it would be best we find him a friend and so we got Yoshi.... not quite sure what he is but we got him from Pets Mart you know where you rescue a pet. He is our little special rescue dog. We love him but he is only about 1 so we are still working on house training.

Well thats us in well a rather large nut shell ... I'll keep yall posted!

Till next time....keep youre loved ones close and savor the days you have .... let go of those things that can be forgotten for a moment to create a life long lasting memory with those you Love. ~LAC~