WOW!

Well, I am not for sure if this is a good wow or what. We finally have a date range for Mike's deployment. Up until now, it's seemed so far away. Now it's three months. Of course, these dates can change, and rumor has it they will, For some reason I thought maybe it would be easierhaving a more definite time frame, but I am not so sure anymore. In case you didn't notice, it's after midnight and I am "blogging". He leaves on 6 August for a months worth of training in Cali.
Our neighbors have kept us up for the 8th time in the past 2 weeks and we finally called the MP's. There was a bit of drinking going on, so we decided it best not to confront them ourselves. Up until May, we have not had any problems with this kind of stuff, but we got some new neighbors and things just haven't been so quiet. I should have known they'd be trouble from the get go. They started their "moving-in" late at night and were crazy loud! Oh well, we'd have problems like this no matter where we lived.
Ivie has started to move around like an inch worm. It is really quite funny to watch her. Amazing too. Mike saw her do this for the first time yesterday, adn I was so glad he was the one who saw her first. He's going to miss a lot of firsts. This is his job, though, and this is what we have spent the past 16 months preparing for. I know that it will be difficult, but I also know we will both be okay. People do this all the time, and have done so for many, many years.
We heard a great message at chapel this morning. Have you ever had a Sunday morning where you just think maybe we'll miss church today because..... Well, today started like that, but I am so glad we went. Nothing can seperate us from God; NOTHING! The chaplain, himself, is preparing for deployment this month and he really preached from his heart. Please keep us in your prayers as we are preparing for what these next few months and all that awaits us.
I guess I really ought to get to bed and see if I can't get some sleep.