Is it nap time yet?

I'm very sleepy today. I think it probably has a lot to do with the fact that i went to the dr yesterday and we increased my dosages on my meds. After a month on them, i was doing ok in the mornings but by mid afternoon i was not good! My blood pressure was way up and i was very cranky. I think it's going to take some time to get used to this new dosage. I'm dragging a bit today. But i did sleep really great last night! I'm ready to sleep some more! LOL But i need to do several loads of laundry and start my chicken marinating for dinner. It needs to go in the oven by 4 this afternoon so we can eat at a decent time! The girls and i are going to watch a movie tonight and i'd like to be done with my chores by the time the movie starts. Otherwise things seem to be going really well here. We are almost down to only 2 months before Jay gets his R&R. Still a while off but when you think about...not that far off! After all it's been just over 2 months already since Christmas. Where'd that time go? Although i seriously can not believe that Reilly's time is almost up! Seems like he just got here! And we still have not had dinner like we were planning! Hopefully we will get to do that! I've done quite a bit of cleaning up around here. Cleaning out corners and getting rid of junk. Moving things around. Why is that when your husband is gone suddenly your house needs a complete over haul? It was good enough for him before he went off to desert life, why is it not good enough for him to come back to? We all tend to do this. We may not realize it but we do. A new coat of paint, moving the furniture, cleaning out the clutter....the list goes on and on. But WHY? When i told Jay i was moving the furniture around, he sounded a little sad. Like so much was changing while he was gone. So that got me thinking.....do we work so hard making things perfect for them to come home that we don't think about how it might affect them? Is it difficult on our men emotionally to come home after being gone so long and see that we have changed, the house has changed, the kids have changed? Not to mention that he has changed too! Sometimes we do these things as a surprise for when he returns. BUT is that a good surprise or a shock to his already fragile system? I decided after he sounded sad to keep him abreast of anything and everything going on that he might need to know before he comes back. I show him pics of everything. I don't want him to walk in and be shocked. I also think in some ways though we have a need to change things because we consciously or subconsciously don't like to live in our homes day in and day out with everything the way it was when he was here. Everything is a reminder that he's gone and we need the change so we can develop our own system and our independence. Besides, it makes us feel more independent to know we moved that furniture on our own! Well...i guess that's enough of my insane reflections today! I'll come up with more soon! I desperately need to get started on my laundry and things though!