Regain control of my house and life.

   This past week has been busy as usual. However, I accomplished the main goal I wanted to, which was to start to get into a routine with daily life. This week my goal is to regain control of my house. I've gotten to the point of too busy but I don't know that there is anywhere to cut back. My oldest son starts school this week so that will be another added piece to getting our routine going again. My youngest son is struggling some in school so I hope to come up with a solution to that this week. But ultimately I plan on tackling the growing laundry pile and divide and conquer by taking over one room at a time. With all that said I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend of hanging out with some special people. Saturday was Nathan's second football scrimmage so I hung out with my mother-in-law there. I love how she makes it a point to come to all his games. Then my fellow army wife friend who is in town from out of state stopped by for a short visit and didn't mind the disarray that my house was in (and it really didn't matter to me either, it's kind of like having family over). After that, I got to go out on a girl's night with one of my friends and meet some new people. I ended up meeting an air force wife which was interesting. Of course today was church, where I got to hang out with some wonderful kiddos during service and share my heart with someone that genuinely listened. And to round off the weekend I met up with my army wife support group and had a back to school bash cookout. There is just something about getting together with others that are going through the same thing that is comforting. Plus, I love how my kids get to meet and hang out with other kids that have their Dad's deployed too. So even though, I'm a little sad I didn't conquer the growing laundry pile at my house this weekend as much as I would normally, I sure am thankful for some great fellowship along this journey of deployment.