day 32: counting by halloween

I'm not sure if it helps to think that ASC will be home around Halloween time....because right now, at almost Easter, that seems like a long ways off.

Because to me, Christmas shortly follows Thanksgiving, which shortly follows Halloween.

And it doesn't feel like any of those are anywhere close to me now.

McK asked me tonight, out of the blue, if I'd take them to see the house with all the Christmas lights on Christmas Eve like we've done the past two years. I told her that no, I wouldn't....because Daddy would be home then to take all of us there.

But, again, a long ways off.

I think I've found that the holidays are a little easier to deal with when you're missing someone you love if you don't do the same thing on that holiday that you've always done. (Wish someone would've told me that the last time Aaron was deployed, over Christmas, cause that one was not what it could've, should've been).

So for Easter.....well, let's just say I'm not doing the "normal" Easter thing this year. Not by a long shot. But I have no doubts that this will be an Easter that I will remember for a lifetime. And my kids, too.

Then I'll just need to get through Mother's Day, Father's Day, the Fourth of July, K's bday, McK's bday, our 11th anniversary, my bday, and Halloween, and then he's home.

Just around the corner, right?

Not really. To me.