The Comeback

I realize that I haven't blogged since 2007, and I sit here wondering, why? Why would the Devilish one neglect her blog? Too busy, perhaps? Or is it that dreaded writers block. My friends will be the first to tell you that I am never at a loss for words. I guess I have to blame it on sheer laziness.

You find me again at the tail end of yet another deployment. This is the slowest part of the whole process. This is where the minutes pass like days and the days seem like years. To be totally cliche "so close, yet so far". As I wait for the arrival of my significant other, I will catch the blog up.

Damien was diagnosed as mildly autistic November 2007, and has progressed greatly since then. A little over a year ago he had NO vocabulary. Now he doesn't shut up! He goes to PSI class everyday from 9-12. He does well in school, but has his moments. He has grown so much. He is a mini-Mike still, I have abandoned all hope of him looking even remotely like me.

We added a new edition to our fur clan over the summer. A Siamese kitten named Draco Malfoy who Damien renamed Sagwa. You know the Chinese Siamese cat. He is cute but a complete jackass. He bites everything and everyone. I am waiting for the dogs to make a snack of him. That would be just fabulous.

This deployment happened to pass through the holidays. Those are always the great ones. When you get the sad reminder that you are a military wife destined to spend the holidays alone when all of the normal people get to actually have those Thanksgivings and Christmases depicted in a Thomas Kinkade painting. No, not us.

Despite this we managed to muddle through and have a decent holiday. This was the first Christmas that Autism didn't take over. Damien was excited about it. He ripped into all of his presents with so much enthusiasm. It was actually pretty awesome to watch.

I am waiting for my computer to come back from the computer hospital that it is in at the moment. I am writing this on the Dell that is the biggest piece of crap in the world, and I have no pictures on here to upload and share with you. As soon as I get my wonderful notebook back I promise I will overload you on all sorts of photographic goodness.

Til Then~