Home At Last

A friend of mine did me a big favor today! She wrote me an email and here is what she had to say:

Hi Tamera,

I was going through the websites, etc. that I have saved in my favorites and came across The Pelikan Brief and realized that I haven’t looked at it in an extremely long time. When I saw that the last entry was November 2009 that worried me. Please tell me that you and all your loved ones are fine and that you’ve just given up the blog.

Hugs, Irene


To put someone through this worry needlessly just isn't right! It's the kick-in-the-pants I needed to get me blogging again, as well as to clear up any concern about possible "troubles abroad" or some other reason for not blogging! No such concern, however! Just no desire, is all! It's funny what happens on a long deployment . . . you think you'll be one way, but you find yourself turning into an entirely different creature all-together! I wanted to come across as one way, I guess, but couldn't bring myself to write "me" as that way - so - I didn't write at all. Silly, really. Time went by and weeks turned into months and here I am - at the end instead of the middle! Thank God!!

For now, I know a few things: My husband is home - we are together! We're getting to know each other again, and after almost 38 years of marriage - that's easy and it's not! I have a lot of things going on inside my head that I'd love to share - but I don't know how yet. So many things are changing in our lives right now that it feels like a tangled necklace - it's going to take quite a bit of doing to untangle them all ... new assignment, different living setup, catching up with a year-in-the-life . . . of everyone!

It all takes . . . TIME! And time we have! :) So, no worries, Irene!!

(((hugs))) and smiles,

Tamera