Just some thoughts I have been having...

• I miss John. He has been working long hard days that have now turned into nights. 6 sometimes 7 days a week 12 or more hour days. I miss him a ton, sometimes it feels like too much to sacrifice. Then I think of the women(and men) who give up their spouses to go fight for our country. Months and Months they can be gone. I don't know how they do it. I hope I never have to experience it, but am so THANK-FULL that some people do. Here is a shout out to Ty Burningham and Matt Willey. You are amazing...THANK YOU for leaving your families and fighting for our country. Thank you to Krystal and Sheri who give them up.
• I don't like dentists who continue to do Donald Duck voices even though it is obviously not making my kid smile, rather freak out. I don't like dentists who tell me what I already knew before I walked into their office...if the tooth dies, it dies their is nothing we can do. Seriously wish you would have told me that over the phone. So glad we have GREAT insurance to cover mental dentists. (I do love all of you WONDERFUL dentists and dental students (and their wives) who read our blog.)
• I love how Deeken has learned to raise and lower one eyebrow. I like how he starts to dance when he eats something he likes or hears music. I love that he has learned how to sing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam." Man, I gotta learn how to put a video on here.
• I love it that Josie knows my voice. I love it when she smiles at me. I love it when she is hungry and knows that I am going to feed her and gets excited to see me coming.
• I am starting to look at Micah the way my mother looked at me when I was little. I would catch my mom just staring at me sometimes, and wonder what she was looking at. I can't help at just stare and my beautiful Micah and the beautiful young lady she is. I wonder if we will be as good as friends as my mom and I are when she is my age.
• I love that Noah is excited about four square. He wants to play it all the time. He brags that he plays with 5th graders. I love that he doesn't seem discouraged that he is not the best player. But enjoys it when he makes it to server.
• We have lived in Spokane over 5 months now. A little less than 7 months to go. Am I scared or excited to move again? It changes daily!
• John is an AMAZING man and deserves much better than me. I am so grateful he got in a few hours of sleep last night and let me have the day off. I went shopping by myself! I went through every aisle I wanted to in Target and at a leisurely pace. You can not imagine how wonderful it was...or how many times I looked around to see where my kids had run off to. Thank you honey. You deserve a day off too. Maybe in March we can get Brett and some of the boys to take you go-carting again. I love you honey!