Day 5

Day 5 - better late than never, right?  I realized that I had forgotten to post just as I was settling down in bed, and I figured a good night's rest was just as important as chronicling the nothing that happened yesterday.  Maybe I'll see if it'll let me backdate, so it at least *looks* like I remembered!

And nothing is pretty much what happened.  I got up and got the kids off to school, then took care of all my computer nonsense (e-mail, Facebook, etc).  I did actually make it out of the house...I went out to lunch with a friend of mine who's going to be heading off to the West Coast with her husband this weekend.

We're still working on getting our daily routines set up.  The kids are each making a paper link chain, one link with a note to Ben on it for each day of the deployment.  I'm starting to think that by the time this deployment is over, our house is going to have been taken over by paper links.  We also have our deployment calendar where we note any cool things that happen - parties, concerts, etc.

One developing routine that I'm not sure I like is that Gabriel has been ending up in my bed at some point every night, usually around 4:00am.  I've been trying to get him to tell me why he refuses to stay in his bed all night, but all he'll say is that he doesn't like sleeping in there alone.  I know it's because Ben is gone, but I'm not exactly sure why he's expressing it this way.

Today's picture is from the kids and their wild imaginations.  They decided to be superheroes last night; they had the superhero Olympics and everything.  Without further ado, here are Supergirl and Super Luigi:

See you later here on Day 6!!