A Little Disoriented

My husband, who is deployed right now, had to come to Washington, DC, for a meeting.  And since we live near DC, this meant that he was coming home unexpectedly.  As you can imagine, I was delighted.  Okay, delighted with reservations.  He's only been gone two months, so I have made close to zero progress on my whole "get skinny-clean and decorate the house-save a bjillion dollars-transform the children into model citizens" plan.  But those aren't really the important things, so I was truly delighted when he climbed into the car at the airport.

The first night, (when I'm sleeping on my own side of the bed instead of his side, where I sleep while he's gone,) I wake up in the middle of the night and realize that there is someone in my bed and it isn't a child.  I clearly wasn't entirely awake because I'm perplexed.  I'm pretty sure that I know who this person is, like his name and his personality, but I'm not exactly sure how he's related to me or why he is in my bed.  In my delirium, I figured I'd better go sleep on the sofa.  As I'm fumbling around for my glasses, it occurs to me: maybe I'm married to him.  Since this sounds vague familiar, and I'm really tired, and the sofa is at least twenty five feet away, I just put my head back down on the pillow.

Fortunately, my confusion was gone when I woke up properly the next morning.  However, it made clear to me how hard it must be for my husband's brain to keep track of the upheaval of his life.  And it was funny, in retrospect.  Plus, I remembered who he was for the whole rest of the visit. Yeah!

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[LAW]

Takes awhile, doesn't it? The extra "stuff" in the laundry, and excuse me, who ate the chocolate bar I had hidden in the freezer??? and the toilet seat saga will start again! But I'm looking forward to it!

[Penny]

"get skinny-clean and decorate the house-save a bjillion dollars-transform the children into model citizens" plan" -- It's my plan too! hehe

It should be interesting when R&R rolls this time around since little man & I will have an extra body in the bed with us. Although, since he used to love taking naps with Daddy, I have a feeling I'm going to be the one getting kicked off the bed.. lol

[loquita]

Very cute story. :) Glad you had some unexpected time with your hubby! :)

[Guard Wife]

I was groggy yesterday morning when Hubs reached over and put his hand on my shoulder. I almost clocked him. I absolutely jumped out of my skin! LOL So weird. :)

[missy]

my husband was in iraq for 1 year in that time our house burnt down i had to have a historectomy buy a new double wide house get ride of the old one our oldest son was put in the hospital 3 times for his epelepsy our yongest son was homebound from school with depresion me gaining 70 pound our middle son cut his leg from tering down our old house and my husband get hit from an IUD and a lot of oter close calls but what im tring to say is you should tresure every min.you can get specily thouse unispected visits he dosnt care about the way the house looks or if you have gained a few pounds he is jist happy being home with you and the childeren dont sweat the dum stuff just enjoy the time you have together