Tick or Treat

Last night was Tav's first Halloween and well we did not go "Trick or Treating". I thought what was the point taking Tav out? I mean any and all candy he would get he could not eat and besides he got to wear his Stitch costume on October 30 for a Halloween party that Jesse's unit had.

Which at first I felt bad putting Tav in his costume because Jesse was deployed and would not get to see Tav dressed as Stitch. Boy was I wrong. Jesse got to come home two days early and did not tell me. That BRAT had one of his fellow sargents call me to see if I was going to the party. I did not think any thing of the phone call. I had planed on going because they had a chili cook off and I had entered my dads chili.

Well after I had got it. Which that alone is another blog. Any way back to October 30. As I was at Jesse's unit's Halloween party I had asked Laura & Roger to watch Tav while I went to get something to eat. It was a good thing I asked them to watch Tav cause I might have dropped him when Jesse walked up behind me and said hello beautiful. I was lucky that I had put down the ketchup because that would have been a mess. Any way when I turned around Jesse had a red and pink rose in his hand for me.

Not only did he have that for me but I got a much needed HUG and KISS!! I needed a hug from him because this deployment was hard for me. I had not one 24 hour duty but two and I had to ask some one to watch Tav for over 24 hours. You see duty starts at 0800 and does not end till 1130 the next day. Which suck for people with kids. I learned that this past month. It is not so bad when Jesse is here but with him being gone and well Tav having to stay at another person house all night I feel bad.

Tav should not have to be with some one who is not his family over night at such a young age. It is different when a child is older but not when they are a baby or toddler. That is just wrong but what can I do the Marine Corp IS NOT FAMILY FRIENDLY!! Even more so when you are both active duty and I wonder how it is when your a single parent. I don't even know how people who are single parents do it. I can not stand to be away from Tav for just a normal work day.

Wait there is no NORMAL work day in the Marine Corp. So let me restate that. I can not stand to be away from Tav from 0645 to 1630 (4:30 pm) or 1700 (5 pm). Some times my day is even longer then that where Tav sometimes has to stay with the sitter till 1800 (6 pm) so he is there for almost 12 hours out of the day. So you can see why I was excited to see Jesse on October 30.

Then for Halloween we went out for dinner and to visit a friend. It was nice and beside Tav would have been fussy the whole time we were "Trick or Treating" because he is in bed no later then 2000 (8 pm) lately. To night he was in bed by 1900 (7 pm) which is around the same time he got fussy last night and for us to go "Trick or Treating" we would have been half way done. They were only allowing us to "Trick or Treat" from 1800 (6 pm) to 2000 (8 pm). So that is why we did not take him out and besides he got to be Stitch the day before so it was all good. I even got pictures of him dressed like Stitch.

They are cute and if I knew how to post pictures on here I would but I am still learning and that is something I have yet to learn. I will but for now I can write. Well it's late and I need to go to bed. Good night all.