Wow, where does the time go?!

It seems I am not doing so well at this whole blogging thing. For one, my life just isn't that exciting...LOL...but I also get so wrapped in it that I completely forget to come here and blog.

I suppose I could pick up where I left off on the autobiography thing...I will try not to be too detailed so as not to bore anyone who happens to be reading...

Ok, so Aaron is in the LVN program and doing his Navy reserves thing...he is 11 weeks away from graduation when he gets THE CALL. Any military spouse or family knows what is meant by that term. Yes, he is called to deploy to the sandbox...aka Iraq. Even though I so hoped this day would never come I knew it would and, at the time, was what Aaron wanted to do. Not only will he be away from his family for a year on the other side of the world but he would lose his place in the LVN program and would have to start over when he returned. Ughhhhh! I won't go into the emotional details of his deployment...just to say it was the longest year and yet it seemed to fly by...I am guessing because I seemed to be on auto-pilot most of the time. Many people asked during and even after how I made it through and I really can't answer that...only to say I did what I had to do. After all I had two young sons (they were 4 and 8 at the time) to take care of, if I had curled up and waited for time to pass, they would have been the ones to truly suffer. It helped too that Aaron was able to call frequently and email almost daily, except when he was out on 2 week missions (he did medevac missions in the Al Anbar province)...at these times I was a nervous wreck. He returned home in March of 2005 and luckily hasn't been called back up since. Like most other combat veterans, he suffers from PTSD (Post Tramatic Stress Disorder) and our boys still are having problems emotionally because of his deployment. Aaron has chosen to leave Reserve duty when his contract is up in December after about 14 years in so he can further pursue his civilian medical career to become a Nurse Practitioner.

Anyway, he came back ready to start the LVN program over but because his instructors and the head of the Nursing Dept were so impressed with his skills, knowledge and experience they allowed him to pick up where he left off...so he graduated with his LVN in August of 2005. He returned to school almost immediately to get his RN and graduated December of last year. He has been working on the Medical/ Oncology floor of an HCA facility here in north Texas since graduating with his RN.

So that is pretty much everything up until this point in our lives that needs to be revealed. We are a pretty ordinary family with ordinary lives. :)