Hello, November!

We had a fun little Halloween here filled with way too much junk. The kids had a blast and I think even the hubby and I had some fun ourselves. I’m so glad we’re over that hump and now rolling towards Thanksgiving and Christmas. As much as I love Halloween, even I was getting a little tired of the decor. Now to rip all of my stuff down outside to prepare for Christmas lights. Yes, I’m already thinking about it! I figure I’ll start in a couple of weeks. lol I’m a lunatic.

I just can’t get over how quickly time goes lately. It felt like it was just Monday and now we’re heading into Friday. I got to thinking yesterday that had the hubby’s schedule stayed the same we’d be preparing for a 7 month deployment in a couple of weeks. So thankful that was delayed and we’ll get to spend the holiday season together. We really lucked out. Instead we’ll be doing that in the spring and it will be for EIGHT months. Oh my lord .. I don’t even know how we’ll manage. I mean, I do. But I don’t. You know? I’m a pro but at the same time it just feels so daunting. Especially when someone made the comment recently that 8 months is “like more than half of the year!”. Yeah. I know. I had thought of that but I didn’t need the reminder. It is a hell of a long time but again, not so bad. It could be worse and it is for many other military families. So I’ll stop whining and think of the good things. Like money. I’m trying to tell myself that it will give us a good opportunity to pay down some debt. I was just a little disappointed when the deployment was delayed just because of that factor. I’m really looking forward to the extra cash and having one less mouth to feed. One of these days I’d like to erase the mistakes of my younger days by not having to pay so many other people every month. Seriously … ugh. Stupidity. If I had a time machine and the wisdom that I have now .. oh boy. We’d be in luck! I’d like to take that person that I was (that we both were) back then, stick our heads in an American Standard toilet and slam the seat down hard. Really hard. lol Pain equals wisdom, right?