Eric is home!!!

Ok, sorry for not posting sooner. Eli and I flew in on Saturday and we stayed the night in Nashville at a hotel. Sunday morning our wonderful friends the Bagge's picked us up to drive us home to Clarksville. That was drama finding a ride home, brilliant me, forgot I booked our flight over Memorial day weekend and so NONE of our friends were in town to pick us up. On top of that there was no shuttle service and the rental car place was out of cars! But, luckily I did think of the Bagge's at the last minute. We got to the house expecting it to be covered in dust and full of sewer rats (thank you Alan Clother) only to find my wonderful friend Paige had come by a few days earlier to straighten up, change the sheets and give us a few groceries. So, very sweet. One worry down, next one to deal with... the car. So the car was completely DEAD, I had to call a tow truck to come and pick up Eli and I to take us to get a new battery. Just so you know baby seats don't fit so well in semi trucks!! I had to hold it on my lap the whole way because he couldn't change gears with the seat in the way. Ok, so the car is running, new problem... Eli has been sucking on my phone as a toy during this whole ordeal, so now it won't work! And this is my ONLY means of communication- we have no computer, all I have is my phone to cling to in hopes that Eric will call me. So I go to Walmart and LUCKILY- no THANK THE LORD, we are eligible for a free phone.
Ok, so drama aside we got home and start waiting. All day Sunday we wait, all day Monday we wait. Then Monday night I get a call from Eric that they will get in on Wednesday night! So all day Tuesday I wait. At about 6pm I was over at a friends and thought about checking my e-mail to get there flight info and the arrival date is for that day! Tuesday! In like 3 hours! I was so overwhelmed, I made my friend read the email for me. He was coming in a day early!!! So we hurried home and got ready and headed out to the flight line. Its kinda fun there, all the women and children gathered around a fence waiting to see a plane come in. Then in the distance we see the lights of the plane and the crowd starts cheering!!! The guys start there way off the plane and towards the group and everyone in yelling and waving flags and signs to Daddy. It was a very sweet thing to see all these men coming home to there families. Eric was towards the end of the group and it was that strange dream like feeling to actually be with him again. Eli went straight into his arms and of course, I cried. We were able to leave to go home after only a few hours. Eli has been doing wonderful with Eric, and we are having fun together too. wink, wink.