Our day

Today was a good day, even though the girls and I are all sick. What timing! Hopefully we can get rid of this before next weekend. What made it a good day is that Brad is home, well in the states and SAFE! It kind of releases all these worries and stress. That feeling is so nice! The girls got to talk to their dad a couple of times today. It is so nice to see his cell phone number come up on the caller ID once again! Brad said that one of the guys who was hurt, Brian, was there to meet them when they landed in New Jersey. They were all happy to see him! Brad said he looked really good, and I bet he was happy to see all of them as well. It will be nice for them all to end this mission together. From what I hear, they will be back in South Dakota Saturday. This will be such a bittersweet time for the unit. They will all be so happy to be home and away from the danger in Iraq, but it will be hard to know they are missing the four men they lost during this mission. I cannot even imagine being the family member of one of those men. I pray for them often. I will always remember what I was doing, seeing and feeling when I got the phone calls telling me what had happened to the four that died. It will be something that I will never forget, along with the memorials and funerals for those soldiers.