Last Day

Well, today is our last day as a family in one spot until the end of March. For those of you who didn't know, I'm going away for a 10wk training to Biloxi, MS. The daycare here can't take her and Zed is not allowed to be a single dad while in pilot training so she's going to her grandparents.

Tomorrow I fly her to Maryland for her to spend the first 5wks with my parents and then she'll make the trip across the country to spend the last 5wks with Zed's parents in Oregon. She'll come home the last week of March and I will come home a few days later.

As I sit here packing up her stuff for almost 3mo a ton of thoughts are running through my mind. I will miss her first birthday, miss her first glass of milk without formula, miss her last time crawling, miss her first run, miss her growing out of her 9mo clothes. I also think about how big she'll be when she gets home, how much fun she'll have with her grandparents, how she'll ride her first horse, and how she'll come back speaking real words.

The most important thing I've thought about is how lucky Zed and I are to having an amazing family who are willing to foster our crazy beautiful little girl while we further our careers in the Air Force. I don't know of many people who have such a strong support system let alone being comfortable enough to send our daughter to both families for such an extended amount of time.

We will miss Mia and saying goodbye will be the hardest thing we've had to do as parents, but the reunion in March will be one of the best days and one that will be highly looked forward to.

I'll make sure to get pictures constantly and post updates as they happen. Please keep our parents in your thoughts and prayers as they become parents to a toddler again.

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