23 July 2004 * 17:05
Mom and I are going. Amanda is going to keep my kids! YAY! SgtMaj Anderson said 1-2 weeks the back pay would be in. So if it happens to come in with the check on the 1st we are set and I can pay the bills I need to. I HAVE to pay my phone bill regardless. It is $106. That will leave me about $200 for spending money for the trip. I asked Mom could she bring some of her own money and she acted like the thought never crossed her mind. My God, I am paying for her to fly, sleep, drive...cheap. ROFL, sorry that slogan got in my head. Anyway, the least she can do is bring some of her own money to spend. I don't think that is asking too much. She is talking about wanting to have $500 for food. I don't know where she wants to eat, but I am not going anywhere expensive. I would like one night with William somewhere nice though. This sounds mean, but I want her to fly with and drive with, but I want to just be with William when I get to him. Kind of like a second honeymoon in California. Silly I guess, but that is how I feel.
I am worried about the backpay not coming, but I have to go on faith here. SgtMaj Anderson is a man who takes care of business. I trust that he is correct. He did tell me it isn't as much as I had thought. I replied and asked for an amount, but never got an answer. He must have stepped out for the day, because I had another question he would have answered and hasn't.
I am ordering boxes off the USPS website. And it is free. You can order all the boxes and labels you want. All I have to find now is packing peanuts and bubble wrap. Too bad they don't have that. I found a site that sells it, but I really don't want to pay out of pocket for anything. I can't afford it. But I will do what I can.
I AM GOING TO CALIFORNIA!!!!!!! Sorry, just had to be happy there for a minute. I will need an anxiety pill for my flights, LOL. ANd probably on the road in San Diego. I will be convinced the plane will crash and I will die, leaving my beautiful little girls without a mother. Hey, I am a freak, I can't help it. And I know Nana will panic too. I just sent her an e-mail to see if Amanda could drop the kids off with her the Monday we return. I can hear her saying we will die or that I need to use the money for something else. But no one knows what this is like for me, except the other wives going through the same thing. I cannot stand thinking that all these guys in his unit will have their families there and he won't. I can't leave our good bye as sloppy and sucky as it was. I want some time with him, without the girls. We kept trying to get people to watch the girls so we could have some alone time before he left, but it never worked out. His Mom was more concerned about him going to visit Mama Hudson. That is another loooooong story. We will save that for a rainy day.
OK, I need to go check in to DDF. We all know I will bbl.
Stephee
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