Good news!

   The past week has been extremely busy-saying my schedule has been challenging would be an understatement (working 7p-7a, 12p-12a, and 10a-10p all in the same week has made me a little loopy) but our dear friend Mike Jones came up for the weekend to spend some time with Pete before he leaves and I must admit that I'm pretty sure that he brought some good Boston juju with him.  Despite the fact that we were extremely excited to take him to The Pump House whose claim to fame is being the northern most oyster bar and conveniently both Mike and Pete are oyster fanatics and they were all out of oysters and the fact that my schedule required me to work the majority of the time that he was here, yesterday before he left Pete found out that he will not be leaving until May 14th.  Yes, that is an entire month longer than the original schedule departure date and no that does not mean he has to stay a month longer.  Woohooo!  Here's to only an 11 month long deployment ;) (slight sarcasm here...).  Apparently there is a trauma course that Pete needs to take prior to deploying and the course next week that Pete was told he was going to is all filled so due to the disorganization of the Army, I get to have Pete for an extra month.  There is a calmness in our house knowing that our time together is longer than 14 days  Tonight we are having a couple over for dinner and we are excited to relax, celebrate the good news, and celebrate the long days in Fairbanks.