ben is home... for the moment.

ben has been working in chignik bay since the beginning of january.  chignik is down on the aleutian chain, about 200 miles from kodiak.  he came home briefly the first week of february and is now back for another week.  i know it has been hard on him to be away from home and even harder for him to be away from jack - he is at such a fun age (what age hasn't been fun?!) so i know it weighs on him that he's missing out on the day-to-day fun times.  but, we just have to make the most of the time we do have.  ben is going back out on monday, the 9th, so we are squeezing in as much as we can.  we won't be together for our anniversary, but at least we can celebrate his birthday 'cause if it weren't for his birthday, there'd be no anniversary!  : )

please keep him in your thoughts as he travels on monday.  with a family of pilots, you'd think i would be comfortable with all the flying he does, but i can't seem to be until i know he's back safe on the ground.