Christmas is OVER

And it's a big relief! I'm normally very cheerful this time of year. So everyone please excuse me because i am not. And next year will be hard too. Granted next year my hubby will be home! And that will be soooo fantastic! But i foresee every year being difficult for him from now on. I mentioned in my last blog that bad things happened in his unit and with all the guys in his Battalion last week. These things will have a lasting affect on him in one way or another. There's just no way he can go through watching his closest friend get injured in such a way and all the other horrid things he had to see last week and just forget it happened. He'll remember a few days before Christmas every year for the rest of his life that it was at this time on this day when this happened to B. And i'll remember at this time on this day i got that phone call. And how it made us all feel. Yes my honey was fine....physically. But emotionally he'll never be the same. He had to treat his best friend and he knows he'll never walk again. He's over there now without his closest friend and it's hard for him. And i'm over here praying for him and wishing i could just hold him close and take care of him. But we are all moving on from it. We are all learning to cope with it. It's much harder on him than on me obviously. But he insists that he's doing better. So the girls and i are doing better. We made it through Christmas without him. He got to call us. But due to high volumes of phone traffic over there the phone line was bad and our call had to be short because of him not being able to hear me. At least he got to talk to the girls first though. That was nice. The girls were very happy with their presents. Not one complaint. Kaitlyn said the only thing she wanted and didn't get was a Jonas Brothers cd. And as fate would have it....she got a gift card from her aunt so she can go buy it now. Happy happy kid! Keliah hasn't mentioned anything at all that she wanted and didn't get so i guess she will just find something for herself with her gift card! Probably a new movie or something! Littlest pet shop stuff....who knows! To wrap up our lovely Christmas day....Keliah lost her first tooth! She was sooo excited! The tooth next to it was loose also and ready to come out but she only wanted one at a time. So we just pulled the one out Christmas night. When she got up the next morning though and found her tooth fairy money, the first thing she said was "That other tooth is coming out today!" And so it did. So she has now lost her 2nd tooth also. She smiles all the time! She is sooo excited! She is 7 1/2 and finally lost her first 2 teeth. I told her if she didn't drink so much miilk her teeth wouldn't hang on so well! That second one did NOT want to come out! It was just barely hanging in there but it was hanging really well! Literally hanging! It was crazy! But it's out now and she is happy. Everything she says sounds like a snake because these were her two middle bottom teeth. It's so cute! So anyway...things are getting back to normal now. Time to take down the tree. Time to get everything cleaned up. Time to get one with 2008!!! Less than a year to go now! Barely less, but still less!!!!!!