Mistakes in Motherhood

Bobby interviewed this morning at 9am est, I did not get a call three hours later until he was at the airport. He felt it went well and it sounds like what we are looking for so we are happy. We will know hopefully in a week if he got it or not. If he gets the job, he will likely be deploying to Iraq in Jan ’09-Jan ’10, we are ok with this and it will give us all time to get out of debt and get the house ready for sale without us having to pay for rent in DC and a mortgage in CO until we could join him 6 months later. We knew the job would require deployments every few years and honestly we hoped it would be sooner than later so we did not have to be apart longer than a year and have to worry about short term leasing and such.

He is so sick of traveling though, by the time he gets home it will be 12 hours since he first got to the airport. His long layover was extended when he did not hear that his departure gate was changed, and when he heard his name over the intercom, the woman at the old gate said “I did not page you” and brushed him off and he missed his flight and had to wait another two hours for the next one. I was really hoping to get him at 8, because the kids go to bed at 8, now they have to be up until 11 and they are going to be exhausted in the morning.

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When I was pregnant with Sophie I mentioned the boys donated their hair to Locks of Love. I planned on it, but was worried about too many changes at once and decided to grow it a little longer. A few months ago I got my hair trimmed to get it healthy and today I took the plunge.

So they got about 16 inches of hair from me and I got my hair styled into an a-line bob. It will take a lot of getting used to, especially since I have had long hair as long as I can really remember.

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Today, before I took Bobby to the airport for his interview tomorrow, we had to stop by his work to get his phone chargers and print out some driving maps from the airport to the hotel, etc. We had finished at his office and were getting ready to go to the car, when Bobby had to run back in to get his maps that he forgot. Three year old Matthew looks up at me and says “what did daddy lose mommy??” and I told him “he lost his marbles”. Matthew thinks a second and says “where are his marbles mommy?” and I said “they are in my purse, Matthew said “oh, ok” and that was the end of that.

So we are walking towards the van when Bobby spots a co-worker he wants to show off Sophie to, and she is talking to Matthew and admiring his boots and Matthew says to her “you know what?? My mommy keeps my daddy’s marbles in her purse!” All three of us were laughing so hard and Matthew totally did not get what he had said, but none the less was super proud of making us laugh. She also agreed that her husband’s marbles were also in her purse.

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