And Back to Work He Goes...

Eric signed back in from leave over the weekend.
Boo...

They didn't start work until today, because until everyone from the unit gets back from leave (they divided it up into 2 sets of leave, so not everyone would be gone at the same time), they have 4-day weekends, which means a 3-day work week.

Pretty sweet deal!
Not so sweet if you figure he worked 12 hour days for the past 365 days, but you get my drift.

He wasn't so ready to get back into that uniform again.
And I wasn't so ready to see him shave his head again, so guess what?

My husband has hair!

Yes ma'am!
He's got a little fade workin'. His buddy said he looks like a cop...really? Haha. I just like it. I think it looks good. And it's different. It has been completely shaved since before I met him.
It's nice to see it changed up a bit.

Back to leave. It was a nice 27-day stay-at-home vacation of fun, family activities and adventures, which are now just going to have to be allocated to the weekends. So, now we can get into a somewhat normal routine of how life is supposed to be on a pretty regular basis.

Back to the real world.
Dun dun dun...

And not what our definition of deployment reality is. I'm thankful that is over and thankful that we have had a good transition (with a few minor bumps) with him coming back home.

Yay for normal family life!

Our Phonetic Alphabet

Alpha
Anxiety, Afghanistan, Arizona, Army Family, Awards

Bravo

Bravery, Boots, Banners, Bible, Blogging

Charlie
Care Packages, Colorado, Cell Phone, Camel Spiders, Courage

Delta
Deployments, Daddy, Duffle Bag, D-Day, Dog Tags

Echo
Email, Enlist, Emotions, Enlisted

Foxtrot
Faith, Family, Flag, Ft. Campbell, Freedom

Golf
Georgia, God, Gerber, GI Bill, Guard Duty, Gear

Hotel
Homefront, Hawaii, Homecoming, Hurry Up & Wait!

India
Isolation, Internet, Immunizations

Juliet
Job, 4th of July, Jump School, Jargon (as in the military kind)

Kilo
Korea, Kentucky, Kevlar, Kisses

Lima
Loss, Late Nights, Love, Long-Distance

Mike
Moving, Missouri, M-16, Mission, Middle East, MOS

November
New Places, North Carolina, New Beginnings

Oscar
OPSEC, Orders, Operation Enduring Freedom

Papa
Phone Calls, Prayers, Pictures, Paperwork, Pride, Pregnancy

Quebec
Quality Time, Questioning the Army's "Craziness"

Romeo
Reintegration, R & R, Reunion, Relationships, Ready

Sierra
Strength, South Carolina, Sergeant, Service, Sacrifice, Support

Tango
Tricare, TDY, Trust, Tennessee, Texas, Troops, Training

Uniform
Understanding, Unit, United States, Ugh!

Victor
Veteran, Virginia, Volunteer, Venting

Whiskey
Welcome Home, Worry, Work, Washington D.C., Waylon

X-Ray
eXcitement, XOXOXO's, X'ing off the days left

Yankee
Yellow Ribbons, Years, Yikes Bikes!

Zulu
Zip Ties, Zones (as in way different time zones!)

Daddy's Home!

Yay! We got to welcome our soldier home from Afghanistan this week! It has been so nice having Eric home, watching him and Waylon play together, getting to actually talk to him in person and everything else that's nice about having your family together and complete. Even the little things, like getting to go to Subway for sandwiches together. It's nice having your spouse to talk to over lunch and not just your toddler. Now I'm off to get Waylon out of his Daddy's gear (velcro name-tapes are just way too fascinating!), and get ready for Eric to come home from reintegration. We shall see what adventures are in store for all 3 of us today!