First Drill: Day 2

Well today was a little more of the same as yesterday. Stephanie was the first one to arrive for formation, I wouldn't let her leave late anyway. We have a tendency in our house to make sure we are at least 15-30 minutes early for everything. This is one of the side effects of having grown up in a military household, along with having been military myself.

I woke up again this morning at 0400 to see Stephanie off for her drill, I assume this will be a common practice in our house until she is no longer in years and years down the road. I'm just so proud of her, that I want to make sure she knows as she is walking out the door to go to drill to serve this country of ours.

After I saw Stephanie off this morning I sat up and waited for the girls to get up so I could cook them breakfast. After a great breakfast, I decided to surprise Steph by cleaning the kitchen and folding some laundry. The girls and I also had a pretty relaxed day as well and we watched a couple movies together through the day.

While Stephanie is on her way home, I like to talk to her about her day. Today, first thing she did was go get her first issue of her military ID then she learned to march military style. She said they pretty much marched all day. Ah, I remember those days... She also took a test over ranks and insignias, which she said she did fine for enlisted, but not so good on the officer side of things...so to surprise her, I immediately made rank flash cards for her to help her with this. Then she went on to PT. She said she did pretty good in her run. She was the first female to cross the line and the second overall. Also, the trainer for the training flight had and inspection this morning of the troops, and Stephanie was told that everything was great and that her hair looked great and perfectly within reg.

Once Stephanie made it home, she was pretty happy to see a super clean kitchen and folded clothes. I figure its the least I could do to help since she was on drill.

All in all, it was a great first weekend of drill for Stephanie and me at home taking care of the girls. I had some withdrawals from not having my wife around and not being able to see her or talk to her, but that is some of my own demons I will have to work on.

Next step, is to just continue to help Stephanie with her push-ups, sit-ups and continue to push her to run and help her with her form while running.