Day 113: Daydreaming

Another good way to deal with this deployment for me, is daydreaming. Looking forward to things to do when he gets home. Not only does it distract me, but it gives me something to look forward to and work for.  It hit me today in one of my daydreaming moments, that in the almost 17 years we have been married, not once have we taken a family vacation. In the first 9 years, we could barely afford to eat let alone take vacations. After he enlisted, we just never got around to it. Sure, he’s had leave twice per year, but we never did anything. Frankly we still couldn’t really afford it, but we never actually tried. We’d taken a couple trips back home to PA to visit family.  But that isn’t what I’m talking about.

I was looking through our photos from Summer 2008. We had gone out to the Ocean for a day that summer. The Seashore towns in WA are really great. The little shops, restaurants, activities, and of course the Ocean itself. That’s when it struck me. He’ll get some leave when he gets home from this deployment. It’ll be summer, the kids won’t have school to deal with. I think it would be a great time to take the kids, and the dogs, pack up the truck and escape for at least a week, maybe two to the WA coast. Walk the beaches, browse the shops, horseback rides along the shore, admire the view. Get away from the Army, the house, the traffic, the phone ringing for the kids, all of it. Just relax, and enjoy some time as a family.

For the first time in seventeen years.