Are you kidding me?

Now my garage door won't work right.

Damn it.

Damn Murphy's Law

After 5 long days, Kevin has finally made it to his final destination, Camp Dubbs. He says it's an extremely small base with about 50ish American troops and 120ish French troops. He said he's talked with the 5 people he'll be working with and the base is very safe (although I must say I'm taking that with a large grain - more like a chunk the size of a lick - of salt). His travels took him from Ft. Riley, Kansas to Topeka to Ireland to Romania to Kyrgyzstan to a main camp in Afghanistan and FINALLY to his camp. That's alotta travelling in 5 days. He said he'll be working 12-hour shifts 7 days a week and his living conditions are livable. He also said that all the people he works with are dog-lovers so he will have much opportunity to have many philosophical discussions about Cesar Milan and his dog whispering.

Meanwhile I'm getting ready to leave for my parents' house in S.C. I was planning on leaving on Monday, but alas, the once and ONLY time in my life that my car decides to have its battery die while I'm not at my house is while I was out doing last minute errands on Saturday and of course this happens when Kevin is half a globe away. Damn Murphy's Law (hence the title of this posting). Fortunately, I was in the parking lot of Cahall's Deli (world's best chicken salad sandwich for anyone who wants to eat a piece of heaven) and the owner was super nice and offered to jump me - uh, I mean my car (wow - in writing that definitely comes off not how I meant it to). Luckily, my heroic friends Josh and Tina were able to rescue me and jump my car so I could get home. And even more luckily, my very wonderful mechanic (Kevin Iferd for those of you in Panama City who may need a reliable, honest car fixer) said he'd come fix my car on Sunday night or Monday morning as soon as he got in from being out of town.

So I guess the moral of this post is (aside from the general information sharing of Kevin's deployment status) Murphy may strike unexpectedly and inconveniently, but good friends will always triumph over him.

deployment roller coaster

Kevin was supposed to leave for Afghanistan yesterday but it got delayed until Tues., Dec. 16. Then yesterday he learned that it changed again to Mon., Dec. 15 at 9pm. So we'll see if he actually leaves tomorrow or not.

I got a web cam and we've jumped right into wasting loads of time sitting in front of the computer making faces at each other and talking about nothing. Skype, I think, will be the saving grace for us (and I'm sure it has been for many other separated spouses) during his deployment. It's so nice to see his face and his smile and yawns and laughing. :)

So keep him in your prayers and hope that his travel over there is short, smooth, and safe.

FINALLY...

I uploaded photos of our house that we moved into in August to my flickr account. Here is the website to view them.

Photos

And here are some photos of my students and my classroom (I rearranged it a couple weekends ago).

Photos

The photos you'll see with the gravestones are at Andersonville, GA. It's the National P.O.W. Memorial Park, and we took the 5th graders there for a field trip on Nov. 14.

Good things...

I'm so happy for my friends Kelsey and Eli. They had a tiny (teeny tiny) baby boy last week! He's so cute! Hurray for them!

Ruby no longer has to wear her cone collar and her incision has healed nicely.

I got to see Kevin over Thanksgiving as well as my mom and stepdad and grandparents!

I finally finished my classroom website, of which I'm quite proud (of the fact that I actually finished it, not the website itself).
Here's the link in case you're interested.
http://teacherweb.com/FL/TyndallElementary/Lawracy/

Also, my awesome friend Jen helped me rearrange my classroom so I no longer stare hopelessly at it trying to figure out how I should arrange it.

And finally Kevin found out he's leaving for Afghanistan on Dec. 13 which means he'll be able to come home a little earlier than we originally thought. Hurray!

Yay for good things!