Friday Conversation with Z.

On Friday the 28th, Jodi was able to take "I" and "W" on a field trip to Berry Plastics. They had a great time. "Z" had got to stay with me and helped me move into my old office at Forbes Field after being in a temporary location for 8 months. Of course a 4 year old gets bored quick, so one of my co-workers gave her a coloring book and colors to help her occupy her time. Since the book was Armed Forces related, "Z" was able to color a lot of stuff red and blue (the page was white). She had one particular page that had some Service Members depicted on it and one was wearing a combat helmet. "Z" made a comment about me wearing a helmet, I quickly did some math in my head and figured she had never seen me wearing a combat helmet (she's almost 5 and I retired from the Army National Guard over 3.5 years ago) so I told her that she had never seen me wearing a helmet. She quickly pointed out that I wear a helmet when I ride my motorcycle so she had. I stand corrected. Of course, that whole thing got me to thinking that not only with "Z", but with "I" and "W", I will only be able to tell them stories of my service as they really wouldn't remember what I did. So much different than what Arden and Jordan got to experience and it will affect they way we are able to raise them. I'm not going to try to say if it's good or bad, just different. We all have parts of our lives that are different than other parts and we have different people sharing it with us. Invest into the time that you are sharing with people right now. It won't matter if the experiences are different later, because we will all be different in that time.