The Year is Over

The year on my own is over and my husband is safely home. Thank God he is home and in good health both physically and mentally. We are going through some adjustments though. I have a good feeling our relationship will be improved because of this long seperation. All the little stupid shit fades to the background when apart for so long and both of us concentrated more on the things we did love about each other. Like the book says "Don't sweat the small stuff"
All that small stuff pretty much disappeared.

So, it wasn't such a smooth year but it wasn't nearly as hard or as bad as I expected it to be either. The last few months before my husband came home were pretty hard. After he went back after his two weeks of leave, I had a horrible depression. I didn't give a flip about anything. That passed eventually and then I broke my leg while out walking the dog! I guess that was the singlemost horrible thing to happen during the whole year. It was a time when I needed him home the most and when I felt the most helpless.
Fortunately whatever I couldn't deal with my daughter did.

I lost some weight during that time due to eating nothing but TV dinners. It was all I could fix on my own while my leg was in a cast. (Unfortunately I gained it all back)

Tonight is Christmas night. This Christmas is a far cry from last Christmas. Last year my daughter and I just went through the motions. Christmas morning we woke up in a hotel and hanged each other a few gifts. It would've been better to just skip all that. Nothing was normal so trying to make it so just made things even more sad.
What a joy it has been THIS Christmas to have him home for good.

I still procrastinated with the shopping until the very end though. Some things never change. :)