15 days until deployment
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"I have two weeks, a day, and approximately 8 hours with Lauren. To put it into simpler terms that 's 15 days or 21,600 minutes. Probably 21,598 minutes after figuring out the conversion of days into minutes. Lately, I 've been reading a lot of books on military families and children, which I think was to make me feel better but has seemed to do the complete opposite. As if telling me to prepare for death and to stay positive during it would help me feel better about my soon-to-be wife going to war. What a bunch of dumb-asses."
I finished writing before getting up to get dressed. I put on a pair of blue jeans and a loose fitting shirt, before admiring my reflection. Everything about me had looked the same, except …show more content…
Who are you to segregate sex parking lots." Lauren joked, laughing at herself yet again as she got out of the car and walked me into the store. We hadn 't managed to walk around for more than 5 minutes, before Lauren became Lauren.
"We have to get these for him!" She said excited, holding up a pair of infant Sperry 's. The shoes and her evident excitement made me burst out laughing. "What!" She giggled.
"We 're not raising or son or daughter to be weird frat kids." I smiled, grabbing the Sperry 's and putting them back on the rack. "We have to stick to the list or else we 'll end up broke and pregnant."
"Fine." Lauren pouted, taking out our supply list from her back pocket. "You ruin all the fun." She added, doing her best to mimic a child. "Looks like we need diapers first off, but I say we just do a 1920 's and get the kid a towel and some tape."
"Yes! I was thinking that this whole time but I didn 't want you to judge me or anything." I replied sarcastically, as we exchanged a small laugh. "But seriously we need Huggies diapers, can you go find
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"I have two weeks, a day, and approximately 8 hours with Lauren. To put it into simpler terms that 's 15 days or 21,600 minutes. Probably 21,598 minutes after figuring out the conversion of days into minutes. Lately, I 've been reading a lot of books on military families and children, which I think was to make me feel better but has seemed to do the complete opposite. As if telling me to prepare for death and to stay positive during it would help me feel better about my soon-to-be wife going to war. What a bunch of dumb-asses."
I finished writing before getting up to get dressed. I put on a pair of blue jeans and a loose fitting shirt, before admiring my reflection. Everything about me had looked the same, except …show more content…
Who are you to segregate sex parking lots." Lauren joked, laughing at herself yet again as she got out of the car and walked me into the store. We hadn 't managed to walk around for more than 5 minutes, before Lauren became Lauren.
"We have to get these for him!" She said excited, holding up a pair of infant Sperry 's. The shoes and her evident excitement made me burst out laughing. "What!" She giggled.
"We 're not raising or son or daughter to be weird frat kids." I smiled, grabbing the Sperry 's and putting them back on the rack. "We have to stick to the list or else we 'll end up broke and pregnant."
"Fine." Lauren pouted, taking out our supply list from her back pocket. "You ruin all the fun." She added, doing her best to mimic a child. "Looks like we need diapers first off, but I say we just do a 1920 's and get the kid a towel and some tape."
"Yes! I was thinking that this whole time but I didn 't want you to judge me or anything." I replied sarcastically, as we exchanged a small laugh. "But seriously we need Huggies diapers, can you go find