I was just wondering how you and your boys were doing with your hubby being gone! I was wrestling my boys this morning to get them dressed, and was ready to pull my hair out (and my dh will be home at 5:30!!), and started thinking about you doing it by yourself everyday! Just wanted to let you know that someone was thinking about you, and hoping the next 7 months go smoothly and quickly for you and your boys!
~Jen
I actually think of you too quite often! It's gotta be soooo hard for you! If you ever need to talk, I'm here! I've got a 2 yr old boy and twin boy and girl that just turned one and my hubby has had to work out of town for a couple of months and it was sooooooooo hard! I can't imagine what you're going through. On top of taking care of everything you've got to worry about your hubby. Like I said, you can talk to me ANYTIME!!!
~Flava
You all are so nice! I was just thinking to myself last night, "I haven't been on Cake Central for a while." If any of ya'll know me I'm on here ALL THE TIME!!!!! 
This being our fourth deployment together you'd think I would be okay with it. This is our first with boys as ya'll know! OMGoodness!!!! I think I have had about 20 more gray hairs pop up just yesterday alone!!!! I really wished I was able to disappear for about an hour or so.
Would you believe the nerve of someone at my son's preschool yesterday...... My 2 year old was climbing on the wooden gate that blocks the class room from the entry way where all us parents gather to drop off and pick up. This gate does not have a latch but just fits snug up against the cabinet/counter to the classroom. Anyway, my boy and another little girl were climbing on it. I pulled him down about 4 or 5 times and the last time I went over to get him and he got furious and started to throw a temper tantrum. You know the kind where they stiffen up and will just NOT bend at all!!!! 
Anyway, he pushed himself off the gate and I lost my grip on him and he fell down and whacked his face on the corner of the cabinet busting his lip in the corner of his mouth. It didn't need stitches thank goodness but as I was consoling him in the next room divided only by a partition I heard another parent say to someone else, "You should be able to control your child.....!" I was like 
I didn't say anything because I was trying to calm my child. Incidentally he only cried for like 20 seconds.
The nerve of another parent of a PRESCHOOLER saying something like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so mad. How dare someone say that especially not knowing the situation I am dealing with in my life right now. The first deployment with kids. Not exactly something easy!!!!!! I'm a high stress person anyway so to say something like that about me without knowing me is ludicrous!!
You all are so sweet! I do have family, in-laws but having friends like you all ask about me really means alot. I need all the support I can get just to make it through each day. I need something that I can call my own and something I consider "normal" and your friendship is exactly what I need! I'll need your shoulders to cry on from time to time there's no doubt about that.
I know there are other wives out there that are or have been in the same boat but we are all different people and some handle situations like this better than others. I'm a high strung, high stress, severe Type-A person so yeah, I need support and a reality check from time to time.
Okay, off the soap box now!
You all are very kind to think of me!
Amy
Anyway, he pushed himself off the gate and I lost my grip on him and he fell down and whacked his face on the corner of the cabinet busting his lip in the corner of his mouth. It didn't need stitches thank goodness but as I was consoling him in the next room divided only by a partition I heard another parent say to someone else, "You should be able to control your child.....!" I was like I didn't say anything because I was trying to calm my child. Incidentally he only cried for like 20 seconds.
Doesn't that just take the cake??? That sounds exactly like something my son would do, and like something that would happen to me. People who don't have "spirited" (haha!) children have no way of understanding. I have a "harness" (yeah, it's a leash) for my 3 year old so he can't run away from me in parking lots and stuff. Somebody told me that it wasn't necessary, that I should just "explain" to him about the dangers of running away from mommy. Yeah, I'll just go ahead and explain that to him IN THE HOSPITAL after he gets hit by a car. She should live a day in my life.
I also think of you often -- it's hard for most of us to imagine having your husband gone for so long. Just remember that you WILL get through it, and you will be a stronger woman when you do. 
And in the meantime, we're all here for you...*hug*
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