Deployment

Well, we are doing all we can to prepare ourselves and the children for the inevitable. I hope it is enough. So far we have made a huge wall calendar with pictures of Steve up all around it with the kids and little sayings like daddy loves you and so on. We are ordering dolls from hugahero.com this week. I ordered comfort quilts from the military YMCA they put 9 pictures on kid quilts of Steve and each kid. they will each have one. Last night we went to the ship and took lots of pictures of where Steve sleeps, eats, works, and plays and i made a book from shutterfly to read to them. Saying things like this is where daddy sleeps remember how small it is and uncomfortable. Dillon thinks the ship is cool so i wanted him to know it is not so cool for daddy. He cried when we left he wanted to go with daddy. I am not looking forward to Saturday since he will see all the other wives and children crying I am thinking it is going to be harder then i can even imagine but am hoping it will not be. As far as Steve and I go we are more focused on the kids. It is very hard on all of us and none of us are looking forward to it.