Random Friday post

The hubs left last night. He has been in town working since December and now he's hours away in another state. Although he's been doing this for the last 6 years, I still get sad when he leaves b/c I know he will be gone for a while. Luckily, he will only be gone for a week-then coming back for a couple days-then leaving again for a while. I still just cannot imagine being a military wife.



As "whoa is me" as I'm making it sound, I actually feel bad for him having to leave now instead of how I feel about being alone while he's off in another state. Gavin cries for him, & says "Da-Da" and that must be pretty hard to deal with for D.



So, this weekend, if Gavin gets rid of his fever that he's had for a couple days, we will venture out into the real world and actually try to be sociable. *gasp* I have got to be the most boring mom EVER! My blog shows it. Ha!



I am having my first girl's weekend in February & driving down to Houston to stay with my sister Lacy. She invited my other sister & me along with a few of her close friends to stay the weekend since she & her hubby bought a new house. I know she can't wait to have us all there & I'm especially excited to see her and my baby nephew Connor (who's actually not really a baby anymore). I'm leaving Gavin with Derek's parents since he'll be gone & this will be the first time I've been this far & without him for this long. I'm not worried though b/c when I had the flu a couple weeks ago, he was at his grandparents for a couple days and did just fine.



I'm in what I call "HGTV Mode." If you follow me, you'll remember me talking about how we intend to build a home in a few years on the property my in laws bought. Well, D took me a couple days ago to look at the site since we changed the location. It's so pretty! When you look out at the land, all you see is trees & fields. There's even a river at the end of it which is neat. I'll have to take a picture next time we drive over there. I'll get lost if I try to go alone. Anyways, I'm the kind of person that once I have my mind made up, I'm ready to do it. For example: we are definitely building now which means that we need to make our house we live in more appealing to buyers. Our little town has boomed & our house needs some updating. So, I'm ready to make those home improvements & it's killing me now to be able to do it right now! I'm a pretty handy person and would start doing things now if I didn't have a little one at my hip everywhere I went. So I wait. I wait for the tax return and I wait till Derek sells one of his boats & then I'll have my HGTV game face on & making our house ready to sell. We plan on building within four years, but why wait for that when we have the land NOW! I'm excited!



Sorry for the rambling...


I've been thinking about when I'd like to have another baby lately. Which is a huge surprise b/c it was SO hard with Gavin for like the first 6 months. Esp with D being gone all the time. It's amazing how much you forget the bad stuff when you see your little one every day learning new things and doing the silliest stuff making you laugh. He really is amazing and I'm constantly gushing to whoever has ears about what he did that day. Yesterday, he clapped for the first time on demand, and said Uh Oh. When I took him to his Granny's yesterday, he was standing up and let go of me and just stood there. He was reaching for her & wanted to take a step but just. couldn't. lift. his leg. It was too cute.


OK, seriously. Sorry for the rambling. I'm pretty sure all of 4 people even read my blog anyways :)

Hope everyone has a super weekend. For the first time, I won't be playing wife and instead will just be playing mommy!