And he's gone...again.

Derick was home for about 20 days on leave before heading overseas. During that time we put about 2500 miles on the car! We spent 2 weekends in Nebraska at his parents and the rest of the time here in KC. We went to Union Station, a Royals game, Science City, Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead, a movie, shopping, the gym and quality time together! It was a lot of fun and I'm so sad that he had to go back. It went by too fast!

Derick left today around noon to head to Omaha to check out of the Reserve center there. He flies out of Omaha tomorrow morning, his brother Sean is taking him to the airport. He will be back at Camp Shelby for a couple of days before catching the next flight to Kuwait. Once in Kuwait he will be there for a couple of days before heading to Afghanistan where he will be working in a prison. He said he'd be finding out shortly after he arrives in Kuwait when he'll be getting to come home. The Unit he's attached too has already been there for a while and they get to come home in January of February so he is hoping that's when he'll get to come back too...his orders are for 9 months boots on ground so we'll see. Here's to hoping he gets to come home early!

Today was definitely one of the hardest days of my life thus far. We were one big crying mess! We think Tyson understands to a point what is going on. Derick had a heart to heart with Tyson a couple nights ago telling him that he has to leave again for a while and when I went into the room (I didn't know what they were doing) Tyson was holding on to Derick around the neck and they both looked very sad. Today Tyson just kind of hugged on Derick and was very calm and mellow. He's seen me cry a lot today and he just comes up to me and rubs my arm or back. After Derick left 2 months ago and Tyson would see me cry he would just say, "mommy you sad?" but today was different, I can tell he gets it a little.