Today was actually a pretty exciting day, in its own way. The day started with a 6:45am phone call from Ben. He is now officially in Afghanistan, though (contrary to what I said yesterday) he hasn't quite reached the end of his travels yet. When I posted yesterday, I forgot that he told me before he left that they were going to have to make a stop in Afghanistan to get some classes knocked out before they officially arrive at their new home for the next 12 months. It shouldn't be too much longer til he's finally done travelling and can get settled into a work routine, much to his relief. Routine is how he deals with being deployed, so it's been driving him nuts that he has thus far been deprived of anything even remotely resembling a routine.
Our other bit of excitement came at the kids' bedtime, when we got to cross the seventh day off on our deployment calendar (please pardon the not-so-great photography):
If one wanted to be technical, we don't officially hit the one week mark until around 4:30am tomorrow morning. However, since Ben did leave so early in the morning, we went ahead and counted the day he left as the first full day. I know deployments are never an exact science, and there's always a chance that he could end up being gone 53 or even 54 weeks by the time it's all said and done. But until I know otherwise, I'm happy to say...1 week down, 51 to go!!
Goodnight everyone...see you on day 8!!
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