Deployment News

Glen has now been on lockdown at Camp Williams for 7 days and we're doing okay. The first few days of him being gone are always the hardest and then we start to get into a routine and things get a little easier. We were able to go have dinner with him tonight and spend some time which was really nice. After the 10 day lockdown he will be working and having briefings on a daily basis, but he'll be able to come home at night. Yay! I found out tonight he may also have some time off before they leave to go to Washington on the 24th or 25th, still not sure what day exactly.
The kids are handling things fairly well. We were pretty busy with the last week of school stuff, Ammon having his tonsils out, and Preston having tubes put in his ears over the past few weeks so I think they were too busy to really think about Glen leaving, but now with summer vacation we'll see how things go. Preston seems to be having the hardest time. He woke up in the middle of the night as usual a few nights ago and I brought him into my room, but then he woke up again about an hour later and looked over to where Glen normally is and said "Daddy?" Then he crawled out of the bed and ran down the hall calling, "Daddy!? Daddy!? Daddy!?" It was enough to make my heart break. I finally calmed him down and got him back to sleep, but he definitely misses Glen. He's kindof a momma's boy, but if Glen is around, that's who he wants. Isaac has been acting out a little, but I'm not sure if it's Glen being gone or something else. Over all things are a little tough, but going okay.

The Benefits of Facebook

My morning routine consists of getting breakfast for the kids and while the oatmeal/pancakes/eggs are cooking I flip open my trusty Mac and open up my e-mail. Ugh, junk. That's mostly what I get from e-mail now and it almost makes me wonder why I even check it on a daily basis. Of course if I didn't, the junk would pile up so much that it would overwhelm even the hint of a good e-mail and I'd be sure to scrap the whole thing and miss something important. However, now I have another vice to check up on - Facebook. My purpose with Facebook is mostly to see how other people's lives are way more interesting than mine . . . most of the time. I have to admit, I hate invites to Farmland, Flowerland, Heartland, and whatever other fluff there is on Facebook. Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but I ignore them all, hope you don't mind.
I'm not the type to keep so up to date on Facebook that I post something every day or all day long. If it's 10:30, 11:00 at night I figure most people are going to bed and don't care if I tell them that I am going to bed too. However, I love to get a good laugh and Facebook can occasionally be full of them. It's fun to hear the quirky things that people are doing and that their kids are doing. I'm a sucker for funny kid stories. The thing I like best about Facebook? I love finding old friends! People's names will pop in my head and I'll think, I wonder where they are now. I know! I'll see if I can find them on Facebook. I have found mission buddies, college roommates, High School friends and more. It's great. I recently got back in contact with my best friend from when I was eleven and living in England. It's crazy and fun to see where people I was so close to at one point have ended up and oddly look like they have barely aged. I also found my best friend from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. It has made my day being able to keep in contact with people I thought I would never talk to again.
I think life is about relationships. Those we have with our family, but also those we have with friends and acquaintances and the way those people can touch and enrich our lives make everything worth it.