Army time

Eric is away at his training at Fort Lewis :( We miss him, I know 1 month isn't the worst we have ever been separated, but it is still hard! Its actually harder at the age Eli is at, where he is very aware that daddy is gone, but yet I can't explain to him where he is! If I had to chose when Eric would deploy it would never be around this age! We are struggling alittle with my energy level and trying to fill in for daddy. Eli will come up to me while I'm laying on the couch and throw his toy at me, I know I should punish him for throwing toys at me, but I also know he is doing it to get me to play with him. oh well. We'll survive the month.

So about Eric's training: We never get to disclose very much info about what Eric does in his army life, because of the security of what he does. But with this new training, they are disclosing EVERYTHING on a blog, so it makes me so happy to be able to see pictures and here stories of whats going on. Not only do they have a blog, but facebook, flicker, twitter and youtube!! Overkill, maybe. The Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as Operation Warrior Forge, is the capstone exercise on the way to becoming a U.S. Army lieutenant. Cadets from all over the country come to Fort Lewis between there Junior and Senior year of College/ROTC to do kind of a mini boot camp. Most of these "kids" are just college students, and don't have any real Army experience that Eric has, actually someone with 8 years enlisted service going back to College/ROTC to become an officer is very rare. But will make him that much better of an officer. So if your interested in checking out what he's doing you can go to

http://warriorforge.wordpress.com/

For blog sake, I'll throw in a picture of when Eric first started ROTC.