Word from My Marine

Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised when I received a small package in the mail from Ryan. It contained a small disk with a 1 minute video of him saying hello to Anya and myself. : ) It was made the day after I'd last heard from him by phone. He was very dirty from the sand, and his hair was getting a little long. But he was doing well.

Then on my way home from class yesterday afternoon I answered my cell phone to hear his voice on the other end! We were able to talk for almost an hour. Amazing. He misses me a lot. He was being made fun of because he was tearing up on the phone. <3 He made some care package requests and asked that I send him multiple letters every day so he has something to look forward to. I'd only been sending one or two a week so I suppose I've been slacking in that department up until now. But postage costs money so I was attempting to be frugal during all of this baby furniture buying.

He wants pictures of everything I'm getting for the baby and as many pictures of myself as I can stand to take. He's very busy and rarely has a chance to get to the phone hence the three week wait between phone calls. Though not hearing from him as frequently has made the time go by faster. Today I will be marking off the last day in the top row of dates on my weekly deployment countdown I made for my desk. I, of course, wish it were more, but it will be. Never soon enough, but the day he gets to come home will get here eventually. Time passes at the same rate no matter how fast or slow it feels at the time. When the day comes I'll be thinking it wasn't so bad, and it went by fairly quickly. But right now it feels like torture.