Tuesday morning reprieve

My kids were up at the crack of dawn this morning. That wasn't the repreive, because I definitely wasn't finished in dreamland when they woke me up. Either way, today is shaping up to be a nice one. N found out what unit he's going to. It's not the one we thought, it's not the one that's going to Iraq in the fall. The unit he'll be with is on their way back from Iraq, which means we have at least a year or so vefore he'll have to go. We want to have another child. We don't want him to be in Iraq when that child is born, so we've been putting off the idea. I know that being a soldier means making sacrifices, and we're both prepared to deal with those, but no one WANTS to go to Iraq, so this is good news. Another good news moment is he'll go on "free" leave (he doesn't have to "pay" for these days) this weekend to come back to TX and help me move. Everything is going smoothly, and that's such a sigh of relief after the year we've had. He says our new house is great, a decent amount of space, hardwood floors, a nice yard, storage space, nice appliances. Things are pretty good, and the sad part is I almost don't know how to react. Who knew things weren't always stressful, life wasn't always crunching down on you?