The Jordans- Cherish, Sean, Autumn and Emelia

It had been my intent ALL seek to mow the grass today. It rained all day. We acquired a lizard too. Autumn says she isn't sleeping until he's gone. Ha-ha!! I'm not sure I will have time to mow tomorrow. I guess if the weather cooperates, I will at least try to do the front yard. I did a bunch of reading today. Some studying. This evening we are eating popcorn and watching: Home Alone. I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. XOXO 146 days

Can you guess what we did today? Science!!! My DNA is two over from the blue marker. We calculated some probabilities and stuff/things. Insert smart sciency stuff here. We finished at 235. I called Alison and she had already left for the girls. I told her my class was out, but did she mind if I went home and studied for a bit. She didn't mind, so I went home, studied and took my anthropology test. I won't know my score until next week. We spent the evening playing games and watching movies. Alison cooked dinner. We are all staying the night tonight. I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. XOXO 145 days.

Gary made it to you!! Which means that: Twigs made it to you. I showed this picture to Autumn and she said, "Mr Gary found daddy!!!" She was so excited. Millie smiled so big! My run today was terrible. I did a good bit of walking. I just did not have the energy this morning. The good news? I got a 100% on my philosophy test. I finished my Library research project. I finished studying for my Genetics quiz tomorrow, I completed the homework for genetics. All I have left to do this week homework wise is study for my anthropology test. I'm really dreading that because this is the professor that asked nit picky questions on the last test. It is hard to study 50 pages worth of possible nit picky questions and expect to do well. OY VEY! Well, that is it for me tonight. I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 144 days.

Wednesday's are so busy. So this morning, I left the house about 15 minutes later than I normally do and that was such a big fail. I drove around campus for 30 minutes trying to find a parking spot. I barely made it to class on time. I would really like to park at the park and ride and then ride my bike to class. I need a bike lock in order to do that. I don't have one. The girls are just now, at 9 pm, getting to bed. We had a big choir practice tonight. We are unveiling our new choir robes and new order of service on Sunday, so I felt like I needed to stay. I need to focus on doing A LOT of homework tomorrow. My 6 miler is tomorrow. The weather has been really nice in the morning. Good night. I love you. Your current wife and favorite airman. xoxo 143 days.

It was open house tonight at the girl's school. It is no surprise to me that Millie's minion has one eye and a pink bow. Their best one eye face. Seriously, what is wrong with these girls? About their outfits. I try to be liberal with what I will allow them to wear to school, but today, Millie and I had a throw down over the high heels, so she asked if she could wear them tonight, since she isn't allowed to wear them to school. I said "great idea!" I guess they both took it as an opportunity to wear something to school that they wouldn't get to wear to school normally. On the way out of the school, Millie was limping. Now we were only at school for like an hour. I asked her if her feet hurt and she said yes. Now aren't you glad you didn't wear those shoes this morning? YES! How sweet!!! We went to Millie's classroom first. Her teacher had a scavenger hunt and once you found everything, you would get a cookie. Mrs...

Sometimes it seems as if it is the deployment that never ever ends. I've had such a busy day today. From 545 am until now, just doing, doing, doing. I accomplished a good bit, but still have about a million things to do this week. I'm grateful that Millie hasn't had much in the way of homework. After spending hours doing my own studying, I have to help Autumn study. Honestly, I think she could do this on her own now, but she seems to need my direction. Maybe it is just that it is our time to spend together, I don't know. Autumn came home today with some papers and one of them was about the reading test they take each year. It said she scored an 85 (as in she performed better than 85% of the national average, her age/grade). She comprehends on 3.9 level (3rd grade 9th month). I do not need some dumb test to tell me the girl can read. Autumn loves reading and her vocabulary is expanding all the time. I hope to continue to encourage her love for r...

I told Autumn to put her shoes on and she comes out in Tennis shoes. I guess you can't blame a girl for wanting to be comfortable. After church this morning, we went to lunch with your mom and dad. We ate at Bonefish grill. It was our first time eating there. Sunday they have a brunch, so I ordered Eggs Benedict. It was delicious. Autumn had fish strips and Millie had pancakes. We rather enjoyed ourselves. After, we stopped to put gas in the car. I went to get back in and found: Millie day dreaming!!!!! She said she wanted to drive home. That girl has lost her ever loving mind!! I came home and did a bunch of studying. I did some cultural anthropology, some genetics. We are getting to the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and I have to tell you, I know I've heard those terms before, but I've forgotten a lot of the terms, functions of the cells. So I did what any reasonable person would do. I made diagrams to study. DO you remember an...

I've been meaning to post on here. I guess I have just been so busy and then not feeling well that I'm so worn out by evening time. We really needed this down day today. I did some homework. Actually, I got a good bit of homework accomplished. I'm finding the reading to be really labor intensive. I think I'm mostly caught up now, but it is something I just need to stay on top of. I'm really hating this philosophy class. I guess as long as I pass, that is all that matters. On Friday, after lecture, I had an hour to kill. I ate my lunch, but then just walked around campus. We have this clock tower. It reminds me of an episode of King of the Hill. Every time I walk by it, I look in it to see if there is anyone up there with a gun. I found the gym and the pool. I have access to those as a student and can bring a guest for $8. I discovered there is a rock wall, kayak rolling classes, etc. Guess what I'm going to go and find out.... ...

It is such a busy life right now. The good news is that the girls both seem to be enjoying school. Millie is still not looking forward to after care on Friday, but we had words about it today. She told me that she wouldn't cry. I told her that I would get to her as soon as my school was over and she said, "So OK. Like 5 minutes?" I told her no, more like two hours. She said, "OK, so not ten minutes, but two hours and one minute." Yes, Millie. I promise that if it is really terrible, I will find another way. I wasn't able to take care of my book stuff today. I think I will leave early tomorrow and try to take are of it then. I should be able to return both the items I need to return though. *I think. They are swamped at the bookstore with the beginning of classes. I had a productive day school wise. I finished an assignment for genetics. I finished some reading for anthropology. If I'm not too tired, I plan to...

I barely made it to class on time. Parking was a nightmare!! Wednesday I'll leave a little earlier and just park in the garage and walk across campus. I have a ton of homework. Just thinking about it all is giving me a headache. The girls had a good day. Millie is still praying that she won't have to go to after school care. I called and talked to your mom and she asked about the girls, so I told her how Millie was having a hard time. I told her that if she has another bad time at aftercare, I'll try to make other arrangements. Alison has offered to pick them up. You will have them some. My mom has even offered to drive over to get the girls. Your mom. She says. "You just can't rely on me." No joke lady! I'm so angry. I don't want to talk to her. Tomorrow we have bible study, gymnastics and school. Will be busy again. Your current wife and favorite airman. XOXO 133 days

After church this morning, we came home and ate lunch. Pumped up the tires and took off for a bike ride. Autumn helped me get all the bikes ready. There is something weird about how my bike fits on the rack. I hope I'm doing it right. Do you see anything off with this picture? When we arrived at the bike trail, Millie started throwing a fit. It ended with me spanking her. I believe she cried the first mile of the bike ride. Then, out of nowhere, a butterfly landed near my foot. Millie went from crying to super excited about the butterfly. This is how Millie has behaved all week. She is driving me nuts. We ended up doing 5 miles today. 1 crying mile and 4 smiling miles. Tomorrow is going to be an insanely busy day. My first day of classes. Workouts, chores, lunches, breakfasts, dinners. I get dizzy just thinking about all the things I need to accomplish tomorrow. I hope I can sleep tonight. We have AWANA at church tonight. I've al...

I keep mulling it over in my mind about what happened with the girls yesterday at after school care. I keep seeing the image of Millie's face when she realized I was there. The second our eyes met, Millie's eyes welled with tears. Her dirt stained face was lined with tear streaks. I feel completely distraught about this. I feel disappointed. I feel alone. I know I need to shake myself free from all of this negativity, but it is really clouding my mind at the moment. The thing is, I know I'm not alone, but I do feel alone. I don't understand why your mom won't help. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning. I did not want to face the day. The thing is, we have two little girls and not facing the issues just will not work. So, I got out of bed and I made us a breakfast. French toast. We had planned to go to the library today, but the girls were just feeling like they wanted to be home. I can definitely make that happen. They ...