Today I delivered the cake to the family of the birthday child and they loved it. My kids were really helpful this morning too. They were well behaved and my son was so cute because he kept telling me how great the cake was and how he wanted to go to that birthday party. I explained that we couldn't but told him that he was going to go with me when we delivered it. He accepted that and went on about his morning.
After we delivered the cake, the kids were able to play outside in our CLEAN backyard. All the leaves were gone and the yard looked so much better. I also was able to play with them in and out of the house. They kids then went to the neighbor's house to play. The neighbors were having a small party and invited me over. I am not a huge fan of the sport they were watching, but I was loving being able to just hang out with other adults for the night and talk.
I am an extrovert and talking to people is what I do. That has probably been one of the hardest parts of the deployment... not having an adult to physically talk to every night. I miss it. Working helps but there is not a lot of time in the day that I can actually have a conversation with an adult. Where as most of my time is spent, of course, teaching kids and talking to the 4-year-olds. I still talk to Ian at night, as much as possible, and that helps. It is just the consistent conversation I am missing. So, tonight, even though I didn't really know many people, was nice. I was able to talk to a few people and, even though I didn't talk a lot, I was around adults.
Then, Ian called and I came home to talk to him. It was actually good timing because I have church tomorrow morning and am working in the nursery. So, off to bed I go to hopefully dream of the love of my life and of the day I can run back into his arms.
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