Nap time

Jimmy-Jack has gotten good at falling asleep on his own, but I have not yet gotten used to it. I will be in the kitchen making some food while he is in his playpen fussing s little, and then I'll get the the living room (all 5 steps away), I'll put down my food and turn to pick him up and he's asleep! It shocks me every time.

I'm so proud of him though. He learned very quickly. He learns everything quickly! I can't believe how big he is getting, nearly 4 months old!

I decided

I decided I really like blogging. Even though most of what I have to say is just jabber, it's still neat.
It's getting late, for me, and Jimmy-Jack has decided he is not tired. So he is in his play pen getting his energy out while I am sipping some hot coco and "surfing the web." Ha, I haven't thought of that phrase in a while. It kind of sounds like something dorky to say, like something no one says anymore. Like saying World Wide Web. It's just funny.
I was thinking earlier about how much everything has changed in the world so quickly. It's kind of like each time something got invented more got discovered even faster, and that happened each time. I mean think about it, we have light so easy for us and they use to use candles! Of course before that was just the sun. Can you imagine what it was like to see the first candle, how did that even happen?! I'm not very imaginative so it is hard for me to see how people can think up new crazy things.
Take a hairbrush for example, who thought of that?! I can't imagine Eve brushing her hair. When did people even start caring how their hair looked? There might be obvious answers but I don't know them.

Cooking

So I'm not a very good cook, I don't know how to make many things. I do love to bake though. Recently I, however, found breaded chicken. So easy and quite tasty. Eat anything long enough and it gets old, sadly. I can make spaghetti, boil noodles.... I make super good boiled eggs. But that's about it, well that and pancakes.

I really need to learn new, preferably easy, recipes. Especially with Thanksgiving coming up. It's not going to be anything special this year, but I would like it to be in future years.

So, if anyone has some good recipes, or sites, please let me know!

Humph

I have come to learn that Field Ops are no fun. About once a month Alex has to leave and be gone anywhere between 2 days to a month. It makes it pretty hard to be married, we miss eachother like crazy when he's gone and get easily upset when he's home. It takes time but we are slowly figuring things out. It's easy to get along when you are away from one another and can just miss each other. We just need to figure how to deal with the little things that agitate us, like every couple does. Of course it's mostly me. I like things a certain way and get easily upset if they aren't done so. I would like to blame it on my being OCD, and it is, but that is something I can overcome. I just need to buck up and do it. Most the time I think about what I'm saying before I say it, but when it comes to these situations I don't think about it until after and then I realize that it was pretty ridiculous. Alex has been very patient with me about it but it doesn't take long for it to get under his skin. So now we argue about arguing about little things. We both know it's redundant. We are slowly figuring it out. It doesn't help, though, when he has to be gone for days at a time and then we have to start the process all over.

We love each other and we will get through it. Love isn't something that is easy, it takes work. And we will work until we get it.