Traveling=stress

So- the lists I have been making for awhile are still just lists. At first I was blaming it on having stuff to do in the last few days when I was getting stir crazy. Now I am figuring out it was probably because I do not want to face packing cause it means facing traveling.

I know it will be fine. The trip will be over before I know it. I will only have to deal with a few hours of craziness on the plane and the payoff will be five weeks with family. It will be seeing my son start forming relationships with his grandparents. He is at an age now that he will start remembering their faces and the way they spoil him. I will get to see my daughter build even tighter bonds with my best friends kiddos, which I love.

Tomorrow morning brings a coffee with my friends... Probably the last trip to the Brot Haus before I leave in three days. Then my hair is going darker...woohoo! I am excited to have my hair doe and go back to where I am comfortable... I love my hair dark. Maybe it will be the refresher I need to get me motivated to start packing.

It will be so crazy tomorrow that I am thinking it won't happen til Monday...which is not bad since I have nothing on my schedule Monday. It will make the day go faster. Cause Tuesday is crazy busy... A Thanksgiving party in Hais class in the morning... A Thanksgiving dinner at the Mahanys... And I am SURE some panic and chaos tossed in there the night before we fly out...

Will update tomorrow...



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Location:Lehrberg DE

Ramblings from a coffee house in Ansbach

What I wouldn't do to have friends here. I love my sunday mornings at
coffee, by myself. But lately I have been longing for my friends. My long
term forever known me friends.

I would love to be curled up on the little
chairs in the corner sharing some besten and marmalade with Ande, while we
sip our cappuchinos. Have the conversation that we both have been dying to have but cannot seem to work into life with 5 kids between us- a nine hour time difference- and busy lives of stay at home mommas!

Or sit for hours with Holls just catching up on life
outside on the benches... All the ten years we have each lived this military
life- knowing what each other is dealing with but never discussing it cause
life just gets in the way.

I can picture Am and me sitting here... Giggling
over what our kids did recently. Both not only relishing the friend time...
But the grown up time too.

What I wouldn't do to be sitting here with my
momma- telling her about the different pastries we are trying and listening
to her slaughter their names!!

Or just sitting here with my sis. Listening to
the stories of her life... Her adventures- the crazy case she just did in the
OR... Just looking at her and taking in all the details of her face that looks
so different from the little girl/little sister I adored growing up.

My cousin
Rita would be fantastic to sit here with too. This amazing woman who I
think of as that little girl I would put on my lap and swing with in our
backyard... Has become this amazing momma (soon to two) and wife. Maybe
she could spend the time here telling me all about how to cook like her or
sew like her... All the domesticated skills that bypassed me.

My mother in law
and I have sat here a few times. We have come here with my kiddos and
my friends. I am blessed with a mother in law who is a good friend. I
can chat with her about life and especially military life. She gets it. She let's
me go on and on, sometimes thinking how ridiculous I am being I am sure,
then is my voice of reason. She reminds me of the things that really
matter.

I have a lot of special people in my life... such a blessing. But these are the people I miss more than anything cause they are not a physical part of my life on a day to day basis.. But only two weeks and I will be hugging quite a few of these people! YAY!!

Countdown

Super excited and super overwhelmed. This last few weeks has been insane. I have been constantly going. Last week included 40 hours at the hospital waiting on this adorable little man to make his arrival. I will have to do an entire other post about that... just let me say that his momma is amazing- he is gorgeous and it will go down in as one of the single most precious moments in my life!

A great part of the week included a coffee with ten lovely ladies. There were ladies who had been here three plus years and one that had arrived the day before. There were officers wives, warrant wives and enlisted wives. There were new Army wives and long term Army wives. There were mommas and ladies without kiddos. It was fantastic!

Then of course- there was trick or treating... I had a cute witch and an adorable Dumbo. It was nice to have the entire family together this year! We went with the Chattins and Bartletts. It is nice being on post cause it is a big social event- you run into everybody you know!





Sunday is looking like a trip to a fest in Rothenburg. That is be a lot of fun. I am excited to head to the states for 5 weeks but also bummed I will miss the Christmas markets. And Lee will be gone next year- so no more markets as a family- which sorta stinks.

But- only 22 more days til I will be landing in NC. I will be in a house with family. I will get to see my inlaws and relax a little. Then two days later- still jetlagged I am sure- I will be on a plane to CA. Three glorious weeks there!

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