Where has Summer Gone?

Well, it's been quite a summer. We haven't done anything significant, but we have enjoyed our time basking in the sun at the pool at least 3 times a week, bowling, and visiting other various local attractions. It's been the typical "lazy summer." The only down side was J.T.'s absence. As of today he's been gone for 42 days. I guess it's really only been 41 considering we got to spend a whole 28 hours with him when he stopped through on his way from Washington, D.C. to San Antonio. Absence definitely makes the heart grow fonder and a tad desperate.
For those of you who don't know what's been going on this summer, J.T. has been doing clinical rotations at the 2 hospitals where he is hoping to land a residency after he graduates next May. He has found his passion, and it is dermatology. I know, it baffled me at first too, but it turns out that derm is not quite as boring as I had originally supposed. Plus, the thought of being a dermatologist's wife has some foreseeable perks: $$$$ and botox.
Anywhoo, for the month of July he was working in the derm clinic at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C. He liked the clinic, but the high cost of living and the fast pace of life our nation's capital has to offer were a little bit of a downer for him.
This month he's been working in San Antonio at Lackland Air Force Base. (The Army's derm clinic relocated to the AFB recently.) He likes the clinic, likes the area, loves the cost of living, and now prays this is where we can end up. I have 2 specific things pulling me to San Antonio: a great housing market and Sea World. Need I say more? Now it's up to the Army. He's schmoozed, kissed up to, and impressed everyone he could. Now we pray hard and wait for our orders to arrive around the end of December.
The girls and I are making it. We've done a lot better than I thought we would have. I do have to give it to my girls for dealing with a sometimes over the top, irritable, nagging, moody mother. There have been no suffocation attempts while I slept, so I have to guess that they don't think I'm as bad as I see myself. No, really we've been blessed by all of the prayers that have been offered on our behalf. I told J.T. once that I could tell he'd been praying for me because things were going way too smooth.
So, now we eagerly await our prince's return home in 13 days. I'm glad he was able to do what he needed to do and I have faired very well, but I'm ready to have my husband back. I've missed him more than I realized I would. I cried when he left and, contrary to what he thought, it wasn't at the prospect of being a single mother to 5 girls, it was because I was having to give up my best friend for 2 months. We've almost made it! But, even though we're almost there, don't stop praying for us yet. We need as much of that as we can get.