tom should be landing in san antonio shortly

and i have a sleeping baby on my lap

it won't really hit that tom won't be home tonight till around 6ish

when he doesn't come home haha

got some good deals at walmart for hayley today

i got her a hoodie for the fall for a dollar marked down from 12

and to dresses for 3 bucks each

then i had to ruin it with swim diapers and regular diapers

those are never on the sale rack

but  the diapers where on sale thankfully

the only diapers she can wear are papers cruisers or swaddlers

they have some kind of mesh lining and every other diaper (even other pampers) give her a horrible rash

she had one from when she was 2 weeks old for 4 months straight

she turned 6 months sunday

nothing got rid of it because nothing wet can touch her rear

tom says only pure gold or the hands of angels can touch her with out it breaking out

sorry, no more diaper talk

we need a new washing machine

ours leaks but it would cost as much to fix it as it would to replace it

so i got a drip pan for 20 bucks today

this way i can do laundry easier while tom is deployed

i won't have to lug laundry and kids to the laundry building i will just have to suck the water up with a shop vac or the little bissell and that will  be way easier

now if i can con one of the neighbor kids to take my trash for me

ill pay em haha

i love watching the cosby show

i think i will make jonas some chicken fries for dinner

since tom is not going to be here all week

i have no need to make big family dinners for all of us to eat and for tom to have leftovers for work

ill just make small simple meals for jonas and me

maybe soup and sandwiches tommorrow

we'll see

mothers day and anniversary

this past friday (the 15th) tom and i had our 5 anniversary

and just like every year for the past 4 years

we went out kid (now kids) in tow

but thats ok

i love having my children

and i wouldn't have them with out tom

so they should be part of the celebration as well :)

but when we go to VA next week

maybe we will ditch the kiddos for night and take in dinner and movie or something

we only get nights out when we go to VA or OH and thats very very few and far between

mothers day was the 10th

jonas got me hat haha

i made a joke that i wanted a 'watering hat' that was on the disney show imagination movers

and jonas dragged poor tom around to every store and boutique in downtown southern pines

alas there were no watering hats to be found

so i got a regular hat from out outdoors store

its cute and will come in handy on trips to the zoo and the park

tom leave for TX on tuesday

he will be back friday

then its of to VA for his birthday, memorial day, and one last hurrah before he deploys

prays for that.

this is first deployment

and most likely not the last

he's going to be gone for at least 3 months

fun

but we will get through it

jonas is trying to convince me he has swine flu

but he does not want swine flu

cuz he doesn't want to turn in to a piggy.

he thinks that getting swine flu will will turn him into a pig

i told him he had nothing to worry about

he is already a piggy with out getting sick

so tom got his jeep on saturday

boy did that day suuuck

Friday:

we had a trailer lined up to tow it back but we needed a truck

one of the guys that he works with is deployed and tom got his permission to use his truck

but someone used his truck and no one knows where the keys are

the other guy with a big enough truck was TDY

so we decided to rent a truck and reserve one with enterprise

Saturday:

Tom come in the bedroom around 8 15 almost in tears

he has pulled his back

he decides he is well enough to go

and we go to get the truck

which was already rented out

so to gets angry with them wondering how he could rent a truck from there if they had no trucks to rent

so i go to walmart to get tom some icepacks for his back, some aleve, and snacks for the road if he can indeed go

he calls the rental place on place, and where as they don't allow towing with their trucks, they give him the number to place that does

so 140 bucks plus gas later

leaving 3 hours later than he had planned

and getting home at 2am

tom has his wagoneer

oh and jonas went with him

but jonas was good

though he came home with a busted lip from getting off the trampoline at the guys house wrong

sunday was commissary day

and i spent the most at the commissary than i have ever spent

i took a page out of lindsey's book and planned every dinner for the next 2 weeks

we only do grocery shopping every 2 weeks since we use the commissary the only things we buy in town is milk and fresh fruits and veggies.

im hoping this works out

and can save us a little money

we have a bad habit of just saying 'lets go pick something up'a

though i have allotted monday night as Moe's night

kids eat free so we eat for 9.55 ;)

and maybe next payday we can go to lonestar steak house

kids eat free on tuesdays and we have a 15 dollar coupon, so we can eat for like 10 bucks.

its nice outside today 

i have the window's open

both kids are napping

dinner is in the crock pot

and the house smells yummy

i  should be doing something more productive

i should go clean the table off and get it set for dinner

ill do that

the mysterious case of jonas button

ill start off with the most interesting thing to happen since i left off

yesterday around 3 30 i stopped jonas from putting a red button in bank

this wouldn't be a big deal but its one of those banks that counts the money

i didn't want the button stuck and what not

well i wish i had just let him put the button in the bank

it would have been so much easier to extract the button from his bank

than from his nose

thats right

about 20 minutes after i told him not to put the button in the bank

he comes running to me screaming and freaking out that the button was now firmly lodged in his nose

i calm him down and try and look for the button

i can't see it so i think the worst(ish)

i get him dressed 

get hayley dressed and pack the diaper bag

try and get a hold of tom, which is difficult when no one at his work is allowed to have cell phones on them in the buildings and their pagers are very unreliable 

so i leave a note on the door for him

also i have no car at the moment 

so i had to call 911 and get an ambulance

the EMT's didn't see the button in his nose either so they decided to take him to the ER

i hate going to the ER

half the people their don't need to be seen and make it take longer for more urgent cases to be seen

a kid that came in right behind jonas had little nick taken out of his head, he wasn't bleeding and was fully alert but his mom insisted he need stitches

and a little later a little girl came in with a fat lip, and brought mom, grandma, great-grandma and cousin along with her.

she was fine too judging buy the way she was running around and eating candy bars.

we waited 5 hours to be seen

3 hours before he even went back to triage and then 2 after tom showed up for the doc to see him

no reason for the first 3 hours but he had to see an ear nose throat doc, and he was pretty busy

reattaching someone's whole lip.

so that accounted for the 2 hours afterwards

then i left with hayley to take her home to get her some more diapers then to pick up some food for tom and jonas

but tom called 20 minutes after i left saying they were done

thankfully the doc could see it and was able to get it out

he told tom that if he couldn't have gotten it they were going to have to knock him out

which was what i was afraid of

that it would either be sucked into his lungs or so far up into his sinus cavity that the would need to be put out and under go some sort of surgery

tom said jonas was very brave and didn't cry and answered all the doc's questions

like 'is there really a button up your nose' 

to which jonas replied 'yes a little red one'

he told everyone in the ER there was a button in his nose, and informed me his ER bracelet said 'jonas mark, put a button in his nose'

all in all a fun night!

in other news

tom gets his new jeep on saturday

we sold our cherokee to my brother and have been down to one jeep

but tom found his car and will be picking it up on saturday

a 1988 jeep grand wagoneer

that's tom's car

its pretty hot

and it got it for 1000

which is awesome

he has been looking at one since november

its been parked out side a now non existent used car dealer

the car is still there

we found out who was selling it and he wanted 6 grand for it

it's not worth 6 grand

if it was fully restored with new everything, maybe

but not with mud dobber and wasp nests in the engine from where it had not been driven in goodness knows how long.

kbb has it worth not even a grand

and that's probably part of the reason it has not sold

the one tom is getting is 4 years older and has half the miles on it

in way better condition

with better after market parts and a lift and newer tires

he's pretty excited

my brother has my old cherokee

it will soon be on route to germany

wow idiot alert

the news just told me that people are complaining that the 3 smallest fonts on the new amazon Kindle 2 are too hard to read

maybe they should just use a bigger font and shut up

problem solved

also

john clark has been on abc 11 for freaking ever since i was in 8th grade i think

maybe longer

sheesh

its hot

its pretty hot outside right now

but thats ok

tom is tdy to florida right now

he had to leave today rather than tuesday

but thats ok too :)

things don't feel too different till about 6 tonight when he doesn't come home

but ill just tell myself he is on one of his over night trainings 

which he is

its just in florida this time haha 

and he won't be back till friday

hopefully dan calls soon with flight info

semi funny story

i saw a taco bell commercial last night while tom was out getting a paper and thought to myself

'hmm maybe me jonas and dan will grab some taco bell while he's here'

when tom came home he tells says

'well i know one thing you wont be doing when dan is here, going to taco bell, the whole thing is up in flames'

there was a fire at taco bell!

tom saw it when he was at harris teeter 

he doesn't think any was was really hurt since no ambulances left with lights and sirens 

but still

i was thinking about going to taco bell at the same time it was on fire

i drove past it today and you can't tell it was on fire until you get to the entrance

from the back you can't see the mess in the front and through the windows it looks like its just closed

but once you look through the windows of the front you see this huge pile of mess

so im wondering where it started  oh well

im sure its in the local paper

here ya go!  

no one was hurt

thats good

most exciting thing to happen here since we've moved here

i have laundry to do

which is tedious with out tom

or a washing machine

gotta load the children in the stroller

load the laundry card

walk to the laundry place (which in in the complex)

it should be fun!

day one with out tom is under way

only 4 more to go!

TGIT

Thank God its Thursday

its been a loooong week

tuesday was the worst day ever

tom was the sickest he has ever been in the 7 years we have been together

i woke up to him puking around 2am tuesday morning

that was super fun

he was sick all day

wednesday i was ill

not nearly as sick as tom thank God

and thankfully neither of the kids are sick

that's outstanding

my brother graduates tech school on the 10th

the same day tom leaves for training for 4 days

daniel (my brother) is going to come up here the 11th or 12th and stay for a few days

that should be fun

i haven't seen him since Christmas 2007

and he is going to be stationed in germany for 24 months

he is already been ordered to send me monthly kinder egg packages

i miss kinder eggs

dont know what we are going to do while he down  here

tom will come back friday at sometime

probably not till late

so maybe (weather permitting) me and dan will take the kids to the zoo

jonas is begging for cheetos 

and hayley is helping me type

tomorrow is the end of the work week

no real plans for the weekend other than get ready for my brother's visit

we'll see though