Who Needs Sleep?
I didn't sleep last night. Not even for a moment.
It suddenly struck me yesterday that May is…well…over and June is here. Which means I have about fifteen days until my husband leaves for his deployment.
I've decided that the kids and I will start our annual trek to Massachusetts right after we say our goodbyes. It might sound kind of crazy, but experience tells me that is the best time to get going.
Upon hearing that I drive my kids almost three thousand miles once a year, most people exclaim that I’m nuts. They say, “I don’t know how you do it!” But to me it is just not that big of a deal. I've done so many things with these kids on my own. Why should driving on vacation be any different? I am a military wife after all.
That’s not to say that the whole trip is like a walk in the park.
Did I mention that I take the dog too?
But my decision to leave in mid-June, and my realization that June is here now have left me a little stressed.
I spent most of yesterday scheduling and making lists and preparing to do all of the things I need to do just to prepare for this trip. When it came time to sleep, I just couldn't shut off my brain.
And once my brain gets going, it’s off to the races.
The good news for my husband and children is that when I haven’t been to bed at all overnight, I am as chipper as can be in the morning. This is a stark and welcome contrast to the ogre I usually portray before ten a.m.
Excuse me while I go swan dive into a vat of coffee. This chipper mood won’t last long.
It suddenly struck me yesterday that May is…well…over and June is here. Which means I have about fifteen days until my husband leaves for his deployment.
I've decided that the kids and I will start our annual trek to Massachusetts right after we say our goodbyes. It might sound kind of crazy, but experience tells me that is the best time to get going.
Upon hearing that I drive my kids almost three thousand miles once a year, most people exclaim that I’m nuts. They say, “I don’t know how you do it!” But to me it is just not that big of a deal. I've done so many things with these kids on my own. Why should driving on vacation be any different? I am a military wife after all.
That’s not to say that the whole trip is like a walk in the park.
Did I mention that I take the dog too?
But my decision to leave in mid-June, and my realization that June is here now have left me a little stressed.
I spent most of yesterday scheduling and making lists and preparing to do all of the things I need to do just to prepare for this trip. When it came time to sleep, I just couldn't shut off my brain.
And once my brain gets going, it’s off to the races.
The good news for my husband and children is that when I haven’t been to bed at all overnight, I am as chipper as can be in the morning. This is a stark and welcome contrast to the ogre I usually portray before ten a.m.
Excuse me while I go swan dive into a vat of coffee. This chipper mood won’t last long.
Labels: challenges, deployment, husband, military, summer, wife
posted by Major Mom at 7:55 AM
Karen is a military wife and stay-at-home mother to a seven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. A Boston native who’s lived in the Shreveport-Bossier area for eight years, she spends most of her time volunteering at her kids’ school, supporting her husband, playing with her friends and watching her hair turn gray. In between, she writes about her life here on her blog.
2 Comments:
I'm not sure how I ran across you, but we are also AF in Texas. The Hubs leaves next Monday. I know how you feel. I have two boys (13 and 5), and we are going to go to Florida to spend a week at the beach with my family, but not until late July.
Well, hello Toni! Thanks for stopping by.
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