Day: April 18, 2009

Day: April 18, 2009
Weather report: mid-70’s today, humidity 33% wind is about 7 SE today

I woke up today at 0430hrs. My natural alarm clock went off and told me get up you need to go to PT. Well it is not a PT day and I can sleep in. I rolled around for a while trying to go back to sleep and had no luck with that. Finally back to sleep around 0630 and up again at 0800hrs. I emailed Amanda my Airborne Journal and she is going to start a Blog for me and all my training that I record. She is wonderful! Now all of our family and friends can follow along in the journey thru Airborne Training. Fought myself to sleep and it did not happen. So I lay around nursing my heavy, tired, sore legs. They have punished our bodies the last two days. Up again, a shower and off to lunch. I had a fellow classmate tell me that there was a Mellow Mushroom here off exit 10. Off to the Mellow Mushroom. I arrived and ordered the Bruschetta to start with and then ordered the Kosmic Karma 10” pizza with pesto chicken and sweet tea. It really hit the spot. I watched the GA Bulldogs beat the AR Razorbacks in baseball and a little of the Crimson and White game of the Tide. Back to the room to check out the new Blog and email it out to friends and family, hope everyone likes it. Amanda did an incredible job setting it up.

While I was out today I found two Army Parachute Soldiers and put them together for the Aden and Jax. I put them together and will mail them and their shirts tomorrow. I had trouble shipping stuff the other day. All of the UPS and FedEx are close early around here. I found a Kinko’s that I can ship out of tomorrow. I went and bought to plant pans. The kind you put under plants to catch run-off water. They worked really good to open the parachute open and the little man looks like he is falling. I am sure the boys will love them. They are so adventurous and play army, cowboys, and tractors all the time. The adventurous spirit of the boy, what an amazing, wonderful thing to have! We never out grow it! It follows us all of our lives. It just depends on how we us it to better ourselves or to help better someone else. Some of us loose focus all together and go off on our on and never truly find our calling. I am happy to say that I know my calling and look forward to raising my children, supporting my wife, and helping young people find a career to better themselves and their families, and to help the less fortunate. I have been so blessed and thank GOD for the opportunity to and desire to help others.

I am so full I am just going to snack on some stuff in my room and lie down and try to go to sleep early tonight. Amanda and Aden are on a date at California Dreaming and going to Frankie’s Fun Park to play putt-putt and ride go-carts. I know they will have a wonderful time, wish I was there. Jax has decided that he is going to stay with his baby sister with Thomas and Tonya. He loves to play with Ryan and Jesse. I sure do miss playing and watching my boys play everyday. I know I have only been gone a week. But it is a routine. Go to work, come home, boys run up and hug me and tell me about their adventures, hold Mary-Cohen, hug Amanda, give her a break and watch T.V. (Scooby-Do or Mighty Machines) and eat together as a family. It is kind of lonely without all of the normal, wonderful ciaos that children create.

I talked with my grandparents and they were happy to hear from me. Everyone seems to be doing fine. My grandfather talked for a long time about this and that, nothing in particular. He sounds so bad since my sister came and picked-up Emma. They have had her for over a year and now she isn’t there. I feel bad for them; she was keeping them young and entertained. Enough for today, we will see what new adventures await tomorrow.

PULL-UPS for the day: 0