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Sunday, November 06, 2005

All moved in and other things

well as the title suggests, we are all moved in to our new room and it's everything i hoped it would be! we have a kitchen all to ourselves with a big fridge, big sink, a stove AND an oven, YAY!! soo much nicer than a normal hotel room! we had a nice treat last night also, a couple of James classmates cooked us dinner and desert! we had yummy steak, mac an' cheese (home made, not the box kind), green beans and a jello no bake oreo pie!! it was delicious!

i'm still so excited for my bro and his girl, i wish i lived closer to them so could spend time with them and all that fun stuff. something that i still haven't quite come to grips with being a military wife is that i will more than likely never live close to my family. of course that doesn't mean i'll never see them, it just means i won't see them as much as i would like to. that makes me sad simply for the fact that as my brothers and i grow up our relationships have changed so much and i miss them more now when i'm away than i did when we were younger. my parents fall into this category as well. i'm hoping that as i adjust more to this idea of the military that it won't be so hard, not to say that i won't still miss my family but maybe it won't hurt as bad as it doesn't now.

anyways on a lighter note James and I are going to go see the movie Jarhead tonight. it looks pretty interesting so maybe a review of it will follow soon!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The distances gets easier, but it is never easy. :( Jason and I were just talking about Christmas. We are a full 24 hours drive away from his family, and 15 away from mine. So even when we have the time off, it's still impossible to leave our cat for all that time, spend all that money on gas and use the miles on the car to see both families. We just can't make it work no matter how we figure it! We even considered spending another holiday apart so that we could see everyone, but I've had about enough of that! So we have to choose again. Even though it's been seven years that I've lived far away, I still have this idealistic picture in my head of families actually getting together at Christmas! It's hard to let that go. But it's even harder on the parents. *sigh*

Anonymous said...

hey! Glad to hear you guys are living in something a bit more comfortable! hopefully, the time will pass quickly and you can get on with life and stop living out of a suitcase. I know that gets old :-/
As for the military life, yes it is hard. yes it is rewarding. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's not.... but, life is truely what you make of it, God has blessed you guys with eachother and families that love and support you, so everything else doesn't really matter that much in the grand scheme. It is hard to accept that though when you are miles and miles from anyone you know and love.
Just take it one day at a time, and savour these days, even the tedious ones. Someday, you guys will look back at all of this craziness and have great stories and laughs to share about your wild military days. You know we are always thinking of you and praying for you like crazy! We love you so much!
Wish we could see you more, that is for sure. It is so unfair that we get closer to our families, the older we get, all that time spent at home growing up with them, and NOW is when we want to be close to them. it's crazy isn't it?! *humpf*

Leah said...

Thanks for all the support guys, I'm definitely needing it right now! We're very blessed to have such a big family and good friends that love us as much as you all do, it's much appreiciated.
And on the Polland thing, we probably won't know or be able to say for sure, rather, until we actually get to Germany. But we will certainly let you know when we find out.