Ace deployed=Ashley sleeps less

I don't know what it is about deployments, but it makes wives start sleeping less and taking on projects that otherwise they would not attempt. When our friend Amanda's husband Sean was deployed, Amanda found herself staying awake way into the night and stripping wallpaper off of her bathroom walls. She also discovered she COULD, in fact, remove the giant bathroom mirror by herself if she was determined enough. (And, believe me, she was determined.) Well, now Sean has returned home, Ace has deployed and the craziness has been passed along to me.

Yesterday I found myself wide awake at 6:10. Normally on a Saturday morning I would be content to lounge, watch some TV, maybe do some lesson planning. Oh no. Not on this Saturday morning. I convince myself that I MUST stay in bed until 6:30 and then Chestnut and I are up. By 9:30 I'm headed to Walmart with Sara. At Walmart I buy a fine collection of new flowers and plants to add to our yard and decide that I'd like to create a new flower bed around the tree in the front yard. By 12:00 I've also decided that the flower beds that exist around my front porch desperately need to be redone but must wait until the summer when more time is available. I take a break from assigning myself new projects just long enough to eat lunch. The second I have swallowed the last of my lunch, I decide I must get started. I begin planting flowers in the planters that hang from the rails of our deck. Then, I realize the back yard needs mowing. TO THE MOWER! After making a phone call to my parents to figure out why I couldn't get the mower to start (give me a break, I've literally never mowed a yard before....shh...I know I'm spoiled) I successfully mow the yard. Then I realize this was a very bad idea....for those of you who know me well....you have realized this too. Because, well, I'm allergic to the world in the spring. So its inside to shower, take out contacts and generally decontaminate myself. But oh no, I will not be stopped. I vaccume, and then begin to put away clothes....but NO! I need another shelf or two. TO TARGET! I acquire two shelves for the closet and then return home to install and finish putting away clothes. It is only then I realize that I have a DESPERATE need to tackle a large and time consuming project during the coming week and head to Lowe's for some help.

This morning I was up by 6:30 and at Walmart by 7:45 and Lowe's by 8:30 to get supplies for this latest brain child of mine. I don't know what it is in the brain that clicks into overdrive when my husband deploys, but it seems to happen just after the good-byes are said. I don't know where the off switch is....that being said, my big project will be revealed to all on Saturday. Stay tuned.