Flashback Friday: September 2009

I will never, ever forget taking this picture.

It had been a very long weekend while Patric was away at National Guard on the other side of the state.

Let's just say, this may have been the only time there were any smiles that weekend because it had been a long one.

 

And then along came Sunday night at bedtime, daddy still not home, and there is a sudden outbreak of sweetness throughout the brood.

 

That.  That would melt away 47 crap hours in a heartbeat, and it still does.

Daddy Back

I don't even remember anymore when it was exactly, but daddy was away for three weeks recently.  He returned to a pile of kids, and with the crazy (and greying) 'stashe.

Getting up for school the next morning--everyone a little tuckered out from turning crazy when he returned right at bedtime, and mustache gone.  Normalcy returns.

It's All On This Guy

For a few days.

He can do it. He trains soldiers. He drives a race car. He comes in and lights up their world.

Wish him well and forgive light posting.