well, with t-minus 3 weeks or so before charles leaves, i'm doing my best to soak up as much of him as possible. he has been off of work and clearing the post since monday, so i've had a week of him being home most of the time, which is nice. it's strange, i am amazingly emotionally detatched from the fact that he's leaving. i know it's coming, and i know it's going to suck, but i'm ok. i can only hope that when i put him on the plane i will be equally ok, but i also somehow know that i won't. i am constantly grateful for his serenty about the situation. i think that's what keeps me so calm. and i'm coming up with lots of things to do to keep me active and busy over the next year. hopefully that will make it easier and help speed the time along.
he is doing a great job of keeping me upbeat. yesterday he went to ACS (army community services) and gave them my contact information. they will contact me once when he leaves to make sure i'm ok and offer to help me if needed; and they also host many events throughout the months for deployed spouses, as we are called. also, through the housing office, there are meetings and priveleges i can partake in. i dont see myself as the type to "reach out" and go join all the clubs and get together with a bunch of weeping women and their 20 bratty kids and lament my struggles in communion with other husbandless people, but i suppose it's nice to know i have that option if i get REEALLY desperate.
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hi michelle. mary arnold woodburn speaking. thanks for sharing your blog and slice o' life with the world. i stumbled over here from elizabeth's blog, which i stumbled on from erin. so instead of napping for the last 40 mins, i've just been snooping through your lives :)i don't have a blog though, so you can't snoop through mine ;)
are you moving to washington when charles leaves? (i tried to limit myself to one question since it seems you have already been grilled by newcomers to the blog.)
alright, well, hello and happy day.
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