... you're only a day away!!!
This is such an exciting time! I talked to Josh each of the past few nights. One of his good soldier buddies is with him and Josh uses his cell phone to call. It is wonderful to hear the excitement in his voice, eventhough there are a lot of yawns and you know that he is exhausted.
Josh said that Christmas was a bit odd -- just another day. They were allowed to leave post for dinner, so they went to a Japanese steakhouse - yum!! I am sure he tried to catch up on sleep, but when you don't have a pillow, I am sure even that is hard.
I spent the morning at the house. I did receive a wonderful surprise on Christmas Eve from my friend Megumi in Japan, so I had a great gift to open. My parents arrived at 11 and we headed up to Auburn to see Diane, Brian, Francesca, TJ and Ella. I had not seen TJ and Ella in quite some time (at least 7 weeks ago?). They are all doing wonderfully and have some amazing outfits to wear when they see Uncle Josh tomorrow! I returned home for the day and started making sugar cookies. My Mom had mixed the cookies for me - a double batch. About 1/2 way through the first batch of dough, I was ready to stop making them... I swear that dough multiplies! (Mom, you were right!)
My sister (Donna) is coming in this morning to help frost the cookies, deliver Cody's naptime apparatus (aka - a pack and play) and help with some other things. It will be great to spend some time with just Donna and she will be able to keep me calm and on track. I really don't have much to finish up before Josh gets home -- I have kept things moving right along.
Josh's family is leaving today to head up from Virginia. They "LOVE" (not) traveling through the great state of Pennsylvania, so I am sure the 232 miles through PA will seem like 500 to them today. The manager at the Country Inn and Suites is giving us a special rate for Josh's return. What a great little place that is and it's just around the corner from the house!!
I know that right now I am running on pure adrenalin!! I am beyond thrilled. The house looks amazing, if I say so myself. I even cleaned the garage on Christmas Eve!!! And even better, the garbage man just came for recyclables and he took the huge (MASSIVE) box of cardboard that I put out. Woohoo!
T minus 34 1/2 hours!!!!!!!!!
2 comments:
oh how sweet...do ever think 'it will be great to spend time with just Diane'...
LOL - Which one in my family wrote that?!?! :-)
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