REPLY: You're good ideas.

You have good ideas, Mommy, like that chain thingy, that's a very good idea. I like your ideas a lot. Usually I don’t have ideas as good as yours. Oh, and your smiley faces with the big round nose is very funny.

Well, by the way the cake wasn’t red, it was green; green velvet cake. Lyla and Balen are getting only a little bit used to each other. It’s very fun watching them get used to each other. Oh and my shot is J7. Yours is a miss. Man, I wonder why it’s so common to miss a lot of times on Battleship.

We’re having a party on Sunday. Balen just had the lotion. We’re not going to do anything tomorrow for him. But luckily we’re having a part on Sunday. Sunday, beautiful little Sunday. Just to let you know, you’re asking about the wrong day, but not to be rude. Sometimes I think like I’m being a little rude. Like just now.

Well, I had a good day. I did my morning stuff. I did some seatwork, and we watched a movie today about slavery. It was about Harriet Tubman. Have you heard of her? She was a brave woman 200 years ago or something like that. Well, we did that at the end of the day. And of course we had lunch, and I got done with everything, that’s good. I worked on my Harriet Tubman packet, we had a good time. I’m getting something back for the shower and another for brushing my teeth. I did my statue of liberty today. It’s a little paper, not a real one. Because then I would be in New York right now! Ahhhh! The way you yell is funny. Balen can turn when he’s walking. He’s getting better and better at walking. Like you said the other day on the phone, I betcha he’s going to be running all over the place in the house when you come back and he’ll be a toddler. Won’t that be cool? I think I might want to end my email now. Sorry if this wasn’t a long email. I love you, Mommy. I hope you get back soon. I’ve been praying for you every time at dinner time, that you come back very soon, as soon as God can make you come back. Oh, and I got your next letter. Goodbye, Mommy. xoxo

Love ya lots,
Abigail
P.S. I am going to do the chain. I’m going to make a link for the chain each day.

RE: REPLY: I forgive you

BATTLESHIP
Your shot: Miss
My shot: C1

Thank you for forgiving me. It makes me feel better. :o)

Oh yeah, Chad's birthday - I need to send him an email...I'm glad you guys could celebrate with him. Was the cake red velvet cake? I think Mr. Chad likes that kind of cake, but Miss Dana doesn't really care for it. How is Lyla doing? Do Lyla and Balen play well together?

Speaking of Balen, what are you guys going to do for him tomorrow? Are you having a little party for him, maybe on Saturday? He's already 1! Wow, huh? Think of how much he has grown and learned and changed in the past year...remember when he was first born, with all his blond hair and how little and tiny he was? And now he's walking, and almost talking, and eating regular food, and playing with toys...it's amazing, isn't it?

I need to get back to work. I wish I could see you when you wake up in the morning too, but it's ok. We've still got a long way to go until July. Once it becomes July, you can start counting days.

Hey - if you want to you can do a project that helps count down the days. Use construction paper and create a chain - you know how to do that, right? Write the date/#of days on each chain, and link them all together. Each day, you can break one of the links until I come home. The only problem with this is we don't exactly what day I'll come home, so you may run out of chain to break before I come home. Or you can do it the other way - make a new chain for every day that I'm gone. The chain will get longer and longer until I come home. Then when I get home we can have fun busting it apart! Whatever you want to do - or do nothing at all. Whatever you want.

I really do need to work. There is more and more work to do...its crazy! It's so crazy that I asked my boss if everyone could work less hours on Saturdays. She said it sounded like a good idea, but she needed to check with some other people first. A lot of the Airmen here are very happy I asked about it - they want some more time off to relax and not do work.

I love you!
Mommy

REPLY: I forgive you

Don’t worry, I forgive you! I’ll always forgive my family members, and everyone else in the wooooooorld, the humongous humongous gigantic gigantic biggest bigger world! But not bigger than God. Well, maybe, but I don’t really know. Daddy just told me. Just to be more specific, Daddy told me that God is bigger than the world.

Well, I went to the Smith’s today. Oh, and by the way, my shot is C5. Isn’t playing that Battleship across countries online cool? Today I got something back but then I lost it again. Hopefully I get it back after my email. We went to the Smith’s because we were going to Chad’s birthday party. Well, not really a party. Just had some dinner, we had some cake which Miss Dana thought was disgusting, and I kind of at the end did not really like it. At first I was like [slurp] mmm mmm mmmmmmmmm give me my cake! I didn’t really say that, but I was thinking that. Right now I’m putting my feet under Jasmine to get them warm. And my sickness has gone away, so don’t you worry, missy. Uh, oh. I think I have a time limit that’s up. Well, actually one extra minute! Okay, g-o-o-d-b-y-e. I love you. I wish I could see you in the morning, but I can’t. So goodbye.

Love,
Abigail

Sorry about no emails

Sorry that I haven't sent you emails the last couple of days. I've meant to, but forgot at the end of the day. And ususally at the end of the day people are waiting for me to go eat or something. I don't have any time, it seems. Last night I was at work until about 10:30! That's way past your bedtime!

I stated up the Battleship spreadsheet. G6 is a miss. Here's my first shot at you: A2.

I'm glad that you're feeling better. I hope that whatever you have, you don't give it to Daddy or Balen. And I hope that you stay better! I keep behaving well! I love to hear about how good you are being. I know that it's tough to always listen to Daddy and do what he says. But that's just what I need you to do. I feel happier and do a better job here in Iraq when I know that you are listening to Daddy. Then I don't have to worry about what Daddy has to do to get you to behave. Then I can concentrate better on my job. See what I mean? It's important to me - even way over here on the other side of the world - that you be a good girl.

Please give Daddy and Balen a hug for me. And tell Daddy to give you a piece of chocolate from me - even if you don't have desserts or you haven't had your dinner yet or whatever. If you've already brushed your teeth for bed, maybe you should wait until tomorrow though.

Gotta get to work! There's so much to do around here! Aaaaa! So much work to do!

I love you all,
Mommy

FUNTIME!!

FUNTIME! I’ve had some good moments today. I threw up again. I threw up my oatmeal breakfast. But now I’m feeling perfectly fine. Right now I’m coloring in the letters of a notebook that has “Stay Connected USAF” on the front. It’s a title. I like that title. Do you?

I played Viva Piñata for a very short time. It was right before dinner, so that’s why it was short. For dinner I didn’t have very much but I did have quite a few things. I had 9 crackers; I had some soup and some milk. Oh, we forgot to give me my vitamin. Do you remember what this font is? Daddy will send the Battleship, and at the end of my email, I’ll tell you my first shot, and you’ll tell me miss or hit. Oh, and I have something to remind you. Why is there still no email? It’s been like 5 days and still no email. Today we got some new headphones for me. They’re really comfortable and rubbery. I like rubbery because it feels so squishy to me. To other people it might feel squishy, but all I know of who thinks it’s squishy is me. My Daddy is going to send Battleship tonight.

Right now I’m hugging Daddy because I love him so much. And Balen the little stinker was playing with his little car, and now has one of my lip balms. Which I am now opening and putting on my lips. Can you call us tomorrow? Well, I think I might as well goooooo. Well then goodbye.

My shot is G6.

Love,
Abigail
LADY OF THE HOUSE

Why aren't you sending me emails?

For some reason, you are not sending me emails. I mean, you’re work computer is just fine. It’s your laptop that doesn’t work, but your work computer you can still use.

My day was perfect. I played Viva Piñata for 4 hours! That’s a long time, isn’t it? Right now, Daddy’s doing my email for me. I’m just saying words, and he’s typing them. Balen’s asleep right now. I’m keeping track of how many sentences Daddy’s writing. My Daddy is going to write 20 sentences total, and then 2 more, then Love, Abigail. Right now we’ve done 12 sentences. The more sentences we do the more periods I add. I threw up this morning and after lunch. I almost threw up a third time today, but luckily I didn’t. I just spit a little bit. I’m having a good time with writing my email. I love writing emails to you. I’m changing how many sentences I’m writing to 30 sentences. Since I only have two more sentences, and that’s 20 sentences, and that won’t be a very long email, and I know you wouldn’t like that. I did 20 sentences already, and this sentence I’m doing adds to 21. My plant is doing okay, my Daddy just watered it. It has two new leaves growing. I’m looking at it right now. I’m throwing dead leaves from my plant away. My Daddy’s water glass has eyeballs. My plant has two big leaves growing that are just fine. I didn’t really have a lunch. My Daddy ate it for me because I wasn’t feeling good. That’s the time I threw up. I wish I could see you in the morning, but I can’t. I love you, Mommy.

Love,
Abigail

My emails are my only way to...

Stay connected to you. If we were not doing these emails, we wouldn’t be connected. That would be bad, wouldn’t it? I Love you so much!

I had a good day. I had a yummy lunch. My lunch was some soup. I had a good dinner, too. My dinner was Chicken Pot Pie soup. Soup is good, isn’t it? I had a good breakfast, also. I had some eggs with cheese on them and I had some apples with a bunch of craisins. Maybe like 52 or something, but not that many. Like 45 maybe or 36. I don’t know how many I ate, I just know I ate a bunch. I’m earning stuff back. I got one thing back. And that was [drum roll] a little tiny purple horsey with a little purple feather thingy that can go on her head. Right now Daddy’s typing my email and eating his soup. I’m getting a little thirsty so I’ll get my water bottle and take a little drink. Right now I’m getting Daddy a tissue. Right now I have one of my horseys in my hand. Mr Chad let me borrow two books. One is Black Beauty and the other is Horse Breeds. I have Horse Breeds in my hands. Well, back to my day. I did three chores. One of them was scrub the floors. I scrubbed the floors by using the swiffer with the wet pad. Whatever the thingy is called. I called it pad, of course. Another one of them was cleaning the toilet bowls inside. The last one was very fun and easy. Wiping the doorknobs, which I didn’t really finish because I had a bath with Balen. It was a fun bath. I think I might as well start on my evening now.

Well, I did not do many things tonight. Well, I played my DS, I ate some dinner, got ready for bed. I took a nap, and I read some Black Beauty. A lot of Black Beauty, not some is what I should have said. Daddy’s almost done with his soup now. For dinner I had some soup and some crackers with some orange juice. Balen’s trying to get my rules paper. He’s pushing up my DS case on my desk. That little stinker. He does things like that all the time. And his walking on his own, he’s getting better and better. Like you said on the phone, I bet he’ll be running by the time you get home. Daddy has a powerful brain. He read my mind. I was thinking of writing “by the time you get home”, and he typed “by the time you get home.” He read my mind like that. That’s one of the things that I love about Daddy when he does that. (I actually kinda really said it). Daddy just rubbed his goatee on me. He smiled and I kinda chuckled. I mean like a ticklish chuckle. I don’t mean like an evil chuckle [evil chuckle]. My evil chuckles are funny. I think they are anyway. When you come home I’m going to do my evil chuckle. And I’ll be like [evil chuckle]. Or maybe we can do a video of me doing evil chuckles. That would be funny, wouldn’t it?

And Happy Birthday! I love you! I’m making a birthday present for you. You can’t see it until it ships to you. Okay missy? Yes, good. Because you can’t open it when it’s shipping, because you don’t know where the shipping person is, or the shipping car. Whatever it’s called, car, truck, whatever. They’re both vehicles, just different kinds of vehicles. I love to learn. I love to learn. I love to learn. I love to learn. Soooperrrrrr sooooperrrr. I mean, like “You did a super job!”; that kind. I think I’ve made a long enough email, so I might as well go. Gooooodbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye! I wrote down 35 y’s! Isn’t that cool? Okay, I think I actually need to go now. Now GB. Do you know what that stands for? Good Bye. Now bye bye!

Love,
Abigaily

Why is there no email?

Why was there no email tonight? I have no idea why, if you don’t know. Maybe it’s because of the stupid connection power wire thingamajig thingie.

My day was alright. A little bad here, a little good there. It was alright because gym was bad and the rest of the day was good. I had hot lunch today. It was a good hot lunch. I had an oatmeal cream pie cookie thingie and I had pudding. I got some spaghetti and meatballs in a little container thingamajig thingie. The last thing I got was some chocolate milk. Balen’s shaking my white horse Holly Horse. Balen almost went off the edge and fell, but luckily he didn’t. Well, anyways, back to my lunch. I had some snacks in my lunchbox and one of them was vanilla milk. I also had some teddy grahams and fruit-a-bu and I had spongebob gogurt. Then I went to the gym to play. We played dogs. We had a good time playing. We were pretending we all had boy doggies. Hailee was a monster, and so was Gabriella and me and we chased the doggies. We pretended we had caught the poor little puppies and we pretended that the puppies had puppy power! Puppy power in our game was them being super fast. Balen just tried to sti on my head. More like butt in my face. [laughing]

Now about my evening. My evening was alright, too. I got picked up from school and we went to the Smith’s, I did my homework, then we went out for dinner, then we came back from dinner, then Daddy and Mr Chad played Rainbow Six Vegas. Then me, Daddy, and Balen got ready to leave and I got my shoes on, Mr Chad let me borrow two horse books, and we left, and we came home and we got ready for bed, then I went to my room, then I started working on my email, then we went to Daddy’s room on the bed, and then here all 3 of us are and Daddy typing my email. I think I want to go now. Sorry if it wasn’t very long to you. Gooooodbyyyyyeeeee. I had a good time.

Love,
Abigailae

My Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!

My life is hard but fun. Noel Noel, Noel Noel, Born is thy king of Israel. Man, I love that song so much! You know? That “Noel” song? I have 15 minutes left.

My day was alright. A little bad here, a little good there. What Noel song I was talking about is from church. Do you remember?

Well, I had a good day. Mostly, anyway. My lunch was good. I had a good time. Well, my snacks were pretty good. I had cheez-its, string cheese, I had a juice box. I had some teddy grahams. Well, that’s mostly it. When I went to the gym to play, I had a good time. We played freeze tag, we got candy from Ms Pinto’s candy box because we were good. I liked my candy. I got some sweet-tart hearts. It was really good. I’m having a hard time thinking about what I should say for my email. But I’m trying.

Now it’s time to say what I did this evening. Balen’s trying to untangle the mouse, but he’s just making it tangled up more. My evening was a-ok. Balen and Daddy are good teammates in the evening. All three of us are good teammates in the evening. I’m getting something back because I did my homework neatly and I put my name on it. Balen just type all those spaces. Balen’s trying to turn it off. Daddy just farted, plug your nose. He stinks like a butt. He’s that stinky when he farts. Well, I got into the house when we came home and I ate some grapes. I love grapes, they are really yummy. I also had a bowl of cereal before I went upstairs, and it was good. I had just cereal because I had already eaten dinner with the Maynards. I ate some tuna salad sandwiches and some slices of apple. I really didn’t get very much, that’s why I wanted more when I got home. It was a good meal. I think I want to be done with my email. So goodnight. [YAWN] and big yawn, too. Gooodniiiight. I’ll see you in the morning, NOT.

Love,
Abigaila

Hi!

Guess what! I got your Valentine today! There sure are a lot of unicorns on that Valentine - I immediately knew it was yours.

It made me feel happy and loved receiving your Valentine card! I hope you are still getting my letters - I'm sending you one every week, but I think you aren't always getting them. Oh well, I'll keep sending them!

Please be a good girl! I love to hear reports of your GOOD behavior!

Love,
Mommy

Reply: My LOVELY FORGIVENESS

My forgiveness is nice, Isn’t it? Yep, it is. Good.

Guess What? I had A girls shopping day on Sunday with Ms Kim. It was so fun! We bought new pajammies for me, which came with a hair tie. We got a new purple shirt, a blue shirt, a pink shirt, a pink and white striped shirt, and we got me a green, blue, and pink striped shirt with golden edges on each stripe, with a flower on the top, and we got new shorts for me, new skorts for me, we got a new dress for me, and we got a new skirt for me, and I got new sandals. It was a fun shopping day. We spent like $95 or $102 on me or something. We even got Maggie Moos ice cream. Mmmmm, ice creammmmm. Remember Homer? Like mmmmm, doughnuuuuuts.

Man, I so badly want you back! Man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man! I soooooooooooooooooooo badly want my beautiful little mother back! If I don’t see her in five months, well, maybe four, but I don’t really know, alalalalalalalala whatever. If I don’t get you back, as I was saying, in five or four months, I will kick myself! NOT!!! Not kind of means you’re joking. Did I tell you that already? If I did, sorry about repeating myself. Well, today was show and tell, and today I brought little Thunderbolt and little Holly Horse. I named her Snowflake, but I’m calling her Holly Horse, because that’s her real name. That’s what I do with my animals, if I don’t like their real name I name them something else. When I talk to somebody, I call them their real name. That’s how it goes with my animals. Well, I think I might want to go now. It’s 7:59, so goodbye! G O O D B Y E. That spells goodbyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee.

Love,

Abigail

LADY OF THE HOUSE ABIGAIL

Hey there, Baby!

Hey Baby Girl! Sorry I didn't write you yesterday. I've been extremely busy and today is no exception. I have a presentation tomorrow, and we are having some problems with our contracts (construction work), and people keep giving us new projects to work on - there's so much that I just can't keep up with all of it at once! Things should settle down a bit in a few days for me - after my briefing and after everyone decides what's important enough for me to work on and what can wait for later.

I hear you've been behaving well. That makes me very happy!

I know this is a short email. I'm sorry that I can't spend more time writing to you. I think about you all the time. I think about all of you, all the time. I'm always telling people about my cool family - my wonderful husband, my awesome punk daughter, and sweet baby boy. I wouldn't want any other family on this whole planet - mine is the best!!!

I love you all! I will try to call you tomorrow, but I have a meeting so I probably won't be able to. Maybe Friday.

Love,
Mommy

My day

My day was really good. Well there’s a couple parts that weren’t that good, but otherwise it was pretty good. I have 9 minutes left. What made my day good was me, Gabriella, Hailee, Zahra, and Mikayla had a really good time after lunch. Not so much at gym, though. I’ll explain what we did at gym that we didn’t really like. Well, there’s these green papers on the wall, and like wheelbarrow races, crabwalks, seal-slap, seal-walk; anyways, that part you would rotate around, oh and also, there’s Chinese get-up. Well that was the part that wasn’t so good. What I was saying about rotating around, you would do it for 30 seconds until Ms Sarah would say “Stop.” It wasn’t that fun. Me and Hailee were partners, Gabriella and Zahra were partners, Mikayla and Eliaha were partners, Ricardo and Bryan were partners, and Mercer and Michael were partners. It was not that fun. Seal-slap wasn’t that fun, seal-walk was kind of fun, wheelbarrow was super duper fun. I love wheelbarrow walk. When we did the crab-walk, Hailee wasn’t really good at it. I told Hailee, “You gotta keep going until Ms Sarah says stop.” But she refused. The fun part we did was doing actual exercises. Like arm-rolls, small and big ones; wrist rolls and ankle rolls. Oh my, sorry I didn’t make much of an email, but it’s eight, oh, oh. So it’s byyyye!

Love,
Abby

REPLY:My DAY OFF

My day was pretty good. I had a day off of school today because it was “President’s Day”. It was fun! I went with ms.Kim to go shopping for summer clothes for me. It was so fun today. I had a good time going shopping. I did a fashion show with Ms Kim to show Daddy all the outfits I got. Plus I got two pairs of sandals. In fact, it was so fun, that I was crazy! Hmmm, what else should I say in my email? Balen tried to pull my pants down. He’s just being a pain in the rear end. Why he’s a pain in the rear end is because whenever Daddy walks away from him, he starts to cry.

Daddy just farted, plug your nose! I don’t really have to because it’s not that stinky. I’m just saying it as a joke. Right now I have a little orange baby horse in my hands that Gabriella gave to me. She gave me the mother, but I don’t know where she is. I LOVE the baby so much! I love the mother, too, but I love the baby more. Because the baby’s cuter than the momma. Always baby’s are cuter than their mothers and fathers. Well, in my games anyway. Daddy just farted again! Plug your nose again! Not! “Not” means joking. Right now Balen has my mouse. I don’t know why he’s crying, but he’s crying. I made my little baby horsy’s leg different. Well, the action, anyway. I made it curved. There’s some toys that are so weak plastic that you can bend their legs into a different shape. You can even bend their bodies, their tummies, their tails, their heads, their necks, and even their manes if you could. I’m making my horsy’s legs into a different shape. I made it look like she’s kind of rearing up. Well I might as well go now. I’ve made a long enough email. Gooodbyyyye.

ABIGAIL LADY OF THE HOUSE

(Here she put our phone number to match Mommy's email signature)

Hello!

I hope that today was a better day for you than yesterday was. I hope you are behaving well for Daddy.

My days are still very very busy. There is lots that I need to get done, and there just doesn't seem to be enough time to get it all done. I've got water projects, fence projects, road projects, and more. There's just so much for me to get done!

It's almost dinner time for me right now. Right now (as I'm writing this) you should be in school, in the early part of your school day. The sun is setting here, and for you it has already risen above the trees.

Please give everyone hugs and kisses for me! You too!

Love you,
Mommy

REPLY: How it's like for me in my life

Hi, Mommy. I’m not having a very good time with Daddy right now. He’s yelling at me. And I don’t really like it.

My day was pretty good. I got to stay up late, and here it is 11:41pm. Daddy said I had until 11:40. He just said I could now go until 11:50. It’s almost midnight. I don’t really remember much about what we did today. Well, we went shopping, we went to Circuit City, we went to lalala whatever, blah blah blah blah. Well, the other store we went to was CompUSA. It’s a computer store. Oh sheesh, I have 5 minutes left. Just now I accidentally knocked Daddy’s water over on my desk. Don’t worry, we cleaned it up. But I mean there’s still some on the ground. I can see the water right now. Well, I still have my horse-on-a-stick, my white horse, I don’t have my DS anymore. Well, I did most of my homework. But I still need to write my spelling words plus my scripture verse. I hate writing my scripture verse. My scripture verse is Psalms 24. A whole chapter! I hate it when I have scripture verses like that. Why I’m writing is because at the end of each month I have a test for the scripture verse. Since February is only 28 or 29 days, I have to write my scripture verse to get better at it. That’s why I’m writing my scripture verse. In my spelling list I have 23 words. Soon it’s going to be 28! Ahhh! I hate stinkin’ 28 words. Because that would be more words. I have 3 vocabulary words right now, and the vocabulary words won’t change when I have 28 stinkin’ words. Okay, my time is up. My Daddy said I better be done sooooon. Well, I’m Lady of the Houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse going out of sight (what I mean is I’m going to end this email right now). Okay, bye bye!

See ya later alligator,
Abigail

RE: My HEART'S Feelings

You made a lovely poem, that rhymes and everything! You are a creative writer, Abigail! I'm impressed!

For me right now, it is Sunday morning. For you right now, it's almost midnight, and you are sleeping. So sleep tight, my dear. Sweet dreams!

I'll talk to you tomorrow - later today for me, Sunday morning for you! I will call a little later in the morning, not first thing in the morning, because I'll be running in a race today at the time that I normally call you.

Love,
Mommy

My HEART'S Feelings

When I think of the sea, I think of shells.

When I think of shells, I think of you.

When I think of you, I think of ringing bells.

When I hear those bells ringing in my mind,

I feel some kind of joy,

And that joy is kind!

And the last thing is,

JOY IS LOVE!!

LOVE,ABIGAIL

[I attempted to post these two emails exactly as they were sent to retain the creativity. This one would not display on the webpage correctly, so I modified the font sizes slightly, but retained relative sizes. This one was made completely by Abigail's hands and mind]

Pretty email

Here's a pretty email for you, little girl!

Sometimes I miss you and I feel so blue,
But other times I think of you and I feel happy!
Sometimes I worry about if you are safe,
But other times I know that God is watching over you.
Sometimes I wish that I were home with you,
But other times I know that I'm doing an important job here.
And of course, always you are in my heart!

Love,
Mommy

REPLY:I Did Get Your Emails!

Your emails were pretty good. This is a good thing. There’s a new research book for Magic Tree House, and I got the email from amazon.com tonight. It was only $4.99. Almost $5.00. I don’t think that’s too much for a little book. Because those books are really interesting to a lot of kids and grown-ups.

Well, I had the party today. It was really fun. I ate a lot of candy, not too much, though. I’m not sick or anything. I just almost got a fever because I was getting too hot. [small sigh] Well, maybe we’re gonna send some pictures for your walls to hang up. Ummm, I don’t really know what a collage is. I have still got two letters from you. I didn’t really get the third. Only second. The one that’s the R, and the one that’s the U. It’s good that you’re making the progress on some thingamajig. Well, my day wasn’t so good. I got in trouble from Pastor Frank. Me and Gabriella didn’t really do anything. But Mikayla and Taylor said we were doing something when we weren’t doing anything. It wasn’t a very fun day. It was an extremely bad day, except for the candy and the party. Well, I didn’t really obey Mrs. Maynard one time when I was supposed to sit down. It wasn’t that fun. I didn’t get to play. It was an extremely bad day. I don’t know how many times I have to say it was so bad. My day was so bad.

Well this evening was okay. I got one thing back for doing a shower without my Daddy even knowing. I now have my DS Lite, and my white horse named Holly Horse, you know? And I also have my horse on a stick. I named my white horse, Holly Horse, Snowflake. And I named my horse on a stick Heart. Well, I have 10 more minutes. That will be 9:00. Because right now it’s 8:50pm for us. I wonder what time it is for you guys. Not over in our place, but where you are. Daddy told me it’s 4:50 for you in the morning. Is that right? Well, I think I want to go soon. Because I don’t really want to talk too long. Look, I’m in orange! Yayyyyy! 5 more minutes. Now I’m going to a different color. Yayyyyy! Now I’m in violet. Soon I’m going to change to light green. My emails becoming colorful agaaaaaain. I’m Lady of the Houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse! What I just did of Lady of the House: isn’t that crazy? Because I made so many u’s again. Like I’m howling. Now I’m changing to light green. Yea, now I’m in light green! I think I should go to bright green, because I can’t really see this green. That’s more like it. I’m in bright green. I can see my typing better. Whoa, I gotta go in 1 minute. I think I might as well go. I’ll let you know when it’s 9:00 for us. Now I’m going to change to bright blue. I meant to say Turquoise. Holy cow it’s 9:00! I’m going to say a little bit more and then bye. I don’t mean by right now. I think I might as well go now. Bye bye!

Love,

Abigail (I’m in pink!)

Email for you

Baby girl,
I hope you get my email. I'm also sending it to Daddy in case you don't get it on your computer or Daddy's laptop, whichever one you are using.

I liked your colorful email so much that I printed it out in color and put it on my wall!!! Speaking of my walls, are you going to send more art work soon? I hope so! You know what would be cool? If you and Daddy put together a collage. Do you know what a collage is?

How many letters have you received from me? It is important to me that you answer this - I need to make sure that you've received all the clues I've given you so far, and in the proper order. Have you figured any of them out?

Today wasn't a bad day…we're starting to make some progress on some of the projects we've been working on. Soon, I'll be finished with a few designs and we'll be able to move on to the next phase - construction. How was your day? I heard that you had a half-day - not bad after a couple of days off from school, huh?

I've gotta go - a couple of the guys are waiting on me to go to dinner. It's time for some chow!

Love you,
Mommy

RE: Life is OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[this was sent 14 Feb, but didn't come through]

Wow - Miss Kim got you some cool things, huh? I hope you wrote her a thank you note - if not, it's not too late to write one now or tomorrow, okay?

I'm sorry that you guys have pink eye. I had pink eye once when I was about your age. I remember that it wasn't much fun. I wish I was there to give you both hugs and comfort you when you aren't feeling good. Know that you are in my heart, little girl, and that there, I am always hugging you, or we are holding hands and skipping, or we're picking flowers in a pretty field filled with wild blossoms! Doesn't that sound nice?

I hope you guys both get better soon. I don't like the fact that my little ones have an illness.

Please be good for Daddy, even after you get some toys back. It's not really a good idea to be good only long enough to get back some toys. As soon as you start misbehaving again, those same toys will be taken away again. You should behave all the time, whether or not you have any toys. Behaving well isn't about toys, its about doing what's right, and doing what's right in the eyes of God. Do you agree with me?

I love you, daughter. I hope that you have a Happy Valentine's Day. Hugs and kisses for everyone!!! Don't eat too many treats - but definitely enjoy a chocolate or two! ;o)

Love,
Mommy

REPLY:I Did Get Your Emails!

Your emails were pretty good. This is a good thing. There’s a new research book for Magic Tree House, and I got the email from amazon.com tonight. It was only $4.99. Almost $5.00. I don’t think that’s too much for a little book. Because those books are really interesting to a lot of kids and grown-ups.

Well, I had the party today. It was really fun. I ate a lot of candy, not too much, though. I’m not sick or anything. I just almost got a fever because I was getting too hot. [small sigh] Well, maybe we’re gonna send some pictures for your walls to hang up. Ummm, I don’t really know what a collage is. I have still got two letters from you. I didn’t really get the third. Only second. The one that’s the R, and the one that’s the U. It’s good that you’re making the progress on some thingamajig. Well, my day wasn’t so good. I got in trouble from Pastor Frank. Me and Gabriella didn’t really do anything. But Mikayla and Taylor said we were doing something when we weren’t doing anything. It wasn’t a very fun day. It was an extremely bad day, except for the candy and the party. Well, I didn’t really obey Mrs. Maynard one time when I was supposed to sit down. It wasn’t that fun. I didn’t get to play. It was an extremely bad day. I don’t know how many times I have to say it was so bad. My day was so bad.

Well this evening was okay. I got one thing back for doing a shower without my Daddy even knowing. I now have my DS Lite, and my white horse named Holly Horse, you know? And I also have my horse on a stick. I named my white horse, Holly Horse, Snowflake. And I named my horse on a stick Heart. Well, I have 10 more minutes. That will be 9:00. Because right now it’s 8:50pm for us. I wonder what time it is for you guys. Not over in our place, but where you are. Daddy told me it’s 4:50 for you in the morning. Is that right? Well, I think I want to go soon. Because I don’t really want to talk too long. Look, I’m in orange! Yayyyyy! 5 more minutes. Now I’m going to a different color. Yayyyyy! Now I’m in violet. Soon I’m going to change to light green. My emails becoming colorful agaaaaaain. I’m Lady of the Houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse! What I just did of Lady of the House: isn’t that crazy? Because I made so many u’s again. Like I’m howling. Now I’m changing to light green. Yea, now I’m in light green! I think I should go to bright green, because I can’t really see this green. That’s more like it. I’m in bright green. I can see my typing better. Whoa, I gotta go in 1 minute. I think I might as well go. I’ll let you know when it’s 9:00 for us. Now I’m going to change to bright blue. I meant to say Turquoise. Holy cow it’s 9:00! I’m going to say a little bit more and then bye. I don’t mean by right now. I think I might as well go now. Bye bye!

Love,

Abigail (I’m in pink!)

No email again!

No email again! Why no email?! I don’t get it. I hate it when there’s no emails. Because I’m using daddy’s old laptop. Old. Old. Do you hear me? Old. Is there something wrong with your computer? I mean if it’s not something wrong with this laptop, then it’s gotta be something wrong with your computer or the connection wire. I think it’s mostly the connection wire. Do you think it’s mostly the connection wire? Because I do. Balen’s going for the laptop. The keys anyway. He’s such a little rascal, but poor baby’s tired. Right now Balen has a runny nose. I’m getting a tissue for Balen’s nose for Daddy to wipe his nose. Oh! Balen got out one of my discs. That little rascal, he goes after every single thing. He actually did take it out again. He took it out again! Err, he took it out again!! Balen dropped his nuk, now he has the mouse! Oh great. I made the chair go down while Daddy was sitting down. I started laughing. Balen got the mouse again.

Well, I got no school again. And you know, Thunderbolt and Holly Horse? I’m going to ask my Daddy if I can bring them. Man! I can’t! Man, when will you guys allow me to bring toys to school? It seems like it’s not fair. Other kids get to bring their toys, I don’t! Balen’s trying to grab my mouth, but he really can’t. He can’t grab my mouth, it’s on my face. I’m having a little fun with Balen right now. Darn, my time’s up already. One minute past, too. It’s 8:21pmmmmm. I just farted, excuse me! Balen’s really sleepy. Well, gotta go. Byye byyye!

I think I gotta go, bye bye!
Abigail

No email,eh?(not to be rude)

There no email tonight I guess. Well, the thing is why didn’t you send me an email tonight?

Well, my day was pretty good. I got two things back today. One just for a little present for Daddy being nice and for being good the whole day. I also got the horse for the shower, mostly. Balen tried to turn on my computer. I took my shower fast. That’s why I got my white horse. My letters are pink. Do you know how I did that? Right now I am going to turn it to blue. See? Now it’s blue! I first figured that out tonight. I wanted it to be a different color. I said to myself, “Well, I’m getting bored with black.” So I clicked a little button at the top of the screen, and I clicked the arrow down, and I saw colors to type, and then I picked pink, and now I have blue. Now I’m gonna ask my daddy if I can turn it to orange. Now I’m on orange. Isn’t that cool how I can change colors? After a little while, I’m going to change to, let’s see, white. Wait a minute. I can’t go to white because the whole page is white, then you wouldn’t be able to see the words. Hmmm. Oooo, I have an idea! I’m gonna make gold, then green, then purple. I’m in gold now! I have five minutes left. Now I’m on green! Green is fun to be in. And so is gold, orange, blue, and pink. Pink mostly I like because it’s my favorite color. Now I’m going to go to purple. Now I’m on purple! Cool. Next I might go on lavender. First we’re going to try lavender. Just two little words. And and what. Cool, I can actually see it on the screen. If you can see the colors I am using make sure you can see the lavender. Now I have less than 3 minutes left. Now I’m going to choose another color. First I’m going to go to the color pad and point to the color I’m going to go to. Now I’m on tan! I can see the tan on there too. I’m gonna ask Daddy if he can. Now I’m going to go to red. Cool I’m on a blood color! Well, my time is up. But I am a color rascal about typing. Isn’t it funny how I kept on saying “I’m going to go to this color”, “I’m going to go to that color,” “I’m going to go to this color”, “I’m going to go to that color.” Isn’t that funny? I’m gonna do one more last color before I go.

This color is teal.

Love,

Abigail

RE: Life is OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life (in tune) is OKAY! Clap, clap. Life is OKAY! Clap, clap. My life is okay!!!!!

I got two of your letters and one card! It's cool that you got a box from MS.Kim!! I got a bracelet and a necklace with a shirt from Ms Kim for Valentine's Day in a bag. Daddy will take a picture of the bracelet and the necklace with the shirt. He's going to take a picture of me wearing it. When you come back, Balen and I might still have pink eye. Because Balen and me have pink eye. And I can tell that I have pink eye. It started today, I have puss in my eye. Do you know what kind of puss I mean? Yes, good. Because I know you're not dumb. You're very very smart. You're so smart, you're one of the smartest people I've ever heard of.

Well, gotta go, love ya lots. Bye!

Love,

Abigail

Very funny

Abigail,
Your email to me last night was very funny! You are an expert on the Simpsons (that's me girl!) and your just so funny! I love it!

Keep 'em coming?

How many letters have you received from me?

I love you!

Mommy

RE:MY CRAZY DAY!!!!!!!!!!

My day was pretty crazy! My day was crazy because Gabriella was nice and mean. That's what made my day crazy! I don’t know why I had a crazy day. It was just so weird. Oh great. Balen got the remote. That little rascal. Me and Balen got a package today from Baba. I got two horses. One named Thunderbolt, the other Holly Horse. Zahra has a horse just like Thunderbolt. I am so excited because we both have a horse that looks the same. It’s so cool! Zahra doesn’t really have Holly Horse, but she has Thunderbolt just like me. It’s so amazing. I was wishing to get a horse just like Thunderbolt, and my wish actually came true! It was so amazing. Once I saw Thunderbolt, I was so happy. I had a smile like a bunny-rabbit smile. My teeth were in front of my bottom lip, you know, my bottom lip? Not just my teeth, but my lips, too. Thunderbolt is brown and white. She’s a paint. Holly Horse is white with red flowers around her neck. She’s a mini (you know that unicorn with the pink flowers around it’s neck?) horse like that. Except for the horn.

In your picture, how you have a gun, it’s so amazing. I’ve never really seen a real gun, except for on TV, you know on the Simpsons when Grandpa took out his old gun from when he was young and in the army? He had a girlfriend at that time. I had to say girlfriend, but I don’t really want to, because it’s kind of nasty to me. Animal kisses are cute in games. (in me and Gabriella’s games, Gabriella plays a boy horse and I play a girl horse and we all say, “pretend this” and “pretend that”, and then we do what we were pretending to happen, and they fall in love in that game) Games are fun, aren’t they? Because I think games are fun, Daddy thinks games are fun, Balen doesn’t really understand, but it seems like he thinks they are fun. So you must.

Well, sorry, but I have to go really soon, because he’s got to go to sleep really soon. So sorry, but I have to go. I’m sorry to say this, but, “bye”.

Love you lots,

Abigail

Hello little girl

Hi Abigail. I've got a picture here of me standing in our "garden" that's surrounded by our building. It's not really a garden, but there's actually some green here - some grass, some small trees, and two large palm trees. It's nice to have a little green to look at, since almost everything else is dirt and rocks.

I had a pretty good day today - a meeting, some work that got done, and some new work to do, but overall a pretty good day. How was your day? I hope it was good.

I got a package from Miss Kim today. I don't know what's in it yet, because I haven't opened it, but when I do I'll let you know. Maybe you already know? If you do, don't tell me. I want it to be a surprise for me!

I love you lots. And I miss you, too. Please give Daddy and Balen a hug for me, Lady of the House! And here's a hug for you:

Love,
Mommy

RE:Missy, What are you doing?(I love you. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

What are you doing missy? I have NO idea what you are doing.

I might as well go, sooo, Bye Bye! LOVE, ABIGAIL. (Sorry I didn’t tell ya very much.)

[this one done by Abigail all by herself, typing and all, from start to finish]

Happy Sunday

Hi Abigail!
I got your email...yes, you are very funny! I'm glad you try to be funny, and not boring.

I hope you have a nice day today. So far, my day has been pretty good. I had breakfast on our deck. What that really means is that I ate my breakfast in a chair next to a pallet. Ask Daddy what a pallet is if you don't know.

The weather is nice today, so I think I might spend some time outside. But first I have a few things I need to do in the office here. I'm gonna get going so that I can get to it, ok? I will talk to you today, hopefully!

Keep up the good work and the good days! I hope that you are being very helpful (and playful!) with Balen. I'm also glad that you are getting my letters. More will come!

I love you,
Mommy

RE:My life

Hi mommy!

Life is going well for me. My life is getting pretty good. In fact it's getting so good, I'm starting to like it a lot. Right now Balen's drinking his formula in my bed. My computer got it's new motherboard now. Now I'm glad. Yay! I got your letters. (by the way, this font is called Edwardian Script itc).

My day was pretty good. I also got the pictures of your email. They're nice. Maybe my Daddy can send pictures to you on his email. Well a few minutes ago, before I started my email, me and Daddy were playing Life. Daddy won. We took a picture of us playing Life. Man, I keep hitting my computer with my elbow. I don't know why I'm doing that. Sometimes I just do weird things. Hmmm... what else should I say? How about the rest of my day? That would be good, right? Yes, okay, that's good. I was just trying to be silly by saying yes for you to those questions. Am I funny? Really? I mean, I've gotta be funny sometimes. Because if I'm not funny, I'm just a bored person. (is what it seems like) [sigh] Balen's falling asleep has he drinks his formula. He's almost done. Yup, he's done. I just gave him his nook. Balen is really really really sleepy. Balen just burped. He's really warm! Phewy, it smells like he farted. Sorry to mention fart. Right now I'm laying down. I'm trying to see if Balen will lay down with me. I don't want Balen to go off the edge. He's trying to get up when he's on me. Right now, Balen's on my chest. Right now Balen's fussy and whiney. He just stopped. Now he continued again. I have five more minutes on my limit. Let's talk about my evening.

Balen's laughing at me nodding. Balen doesn't really wanna be touched. Whenever I just make my hand gallop through the air, he just pushes it down. He just gave me his nook. Balen's laughing at me when I shoot the nuk out fast out of my mouth. He really likes it. Balen's really really laughing. Now I have 3 minutes left for my time limit. Right now it's 7:47 pm. I've gotta hurry up. Now it's only 2 minutes left. Now it's 7:48. I'm making my silly smile at Balen and he's smiling at me. Balen is so funny. He laughs at things that aren't funny. He's just a really funny baby. He just pushed me down onto my bed. Well, now it's 7:49. I may as well hurry up. One more minute. So I might as well go. But a few more things about Balen. I'll tell you when it's 7:50. Balen is doing so good. It's good that he's walking on his own. Right now Balen's in my bed. Right now it's 7:50. I might as well go.

Bye bye Mommy!

Love you lots,Abigail

Some pics

Here are some pics of my office and the compound on a clear day - today! Today wasn't as hectic as the last few days.
I've got people waiting for me so we can go to dinner, so I've got to go…
I love you, Mommy

Re: Goodnight, for now!

I'm not signing with Balen very much, but I don`t know if Daddy does very much. I betcha Daddy is signing with Balen quite a bit. But still, I'm not quite sure.

When I first read the part where you said, "it made me cry a little" it almost made me cry, because I miss you too much. Next time I read something like that, I almost will cry. Because you are too special to me for you to be away. Worship practice? Cool! Well, I got spanked 3 times. One for disobeying, and one for playing at dinner, and the last one for messing around while I'm taking a shower. Man, why do you have such busy busy busy busy busy busy busy busy busy busy days? I think I`m going to have enough of the lies. Balen is trying to pull down my pants. I don't know what he's doing!! That little rascal! I'm sorry I didn't get to tell you about my day. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

You'll always be my special mother. You'll always be in my heart, too, Special Mother.
Love,
Abigail

Goodnight, for now!

I had another busy day today. I've got to get going though, or I'll not get any dinner. I've got a workout class tonight, too. I also have worship practice tonight. Busy busy busy!!!

Please be a good girl! I can't emphasize this enough! I don't want to hear from Daddy any more that you told him a lie. Enough is enough!

Today was a good weather day - breezy, but no dust storms! It was a little cool, but not really cold. Pretty nice, overall.

I was very excited to see the video of Balen walking. I'm so glad that Daddy sent it to me. It made me cry a little, because I missed it and I wasn't there to see it, but I'm glad that Balen is learning and growing and I'm glad that I could see the video. You are right - he's becoming a toddler. He won't be my baby boy when I come home - he'll be my little toddler! Are you still working on signing with him? He learns from you, too - not just from Daddy. Keep it up, kiddo!

I need to go get my dinner now. I love you very much. You are in my heart, and you'll always be my baby girl!

Love, Mommy

Re: What about my question?

Yep, they are just fine. I want to move to "New Mexico"!!!And also Balen is walking on his own!!!!!He`s becoming a TODDLER!!!

My day was pretty good. (By the way,this writing is called"BRADLEY HAND ITC"). Well, I did my morning stuff as usual. After our morning stuff we continued on our seatwork as usual. Man, I've got to get that "as usual" thing out of my head. After we did our journal we did like spelling, and continue the counting pattern, and stuff like that, and add and subtract these, and you know, whatever. I'm not trying to be rude to you, by saying "whatever", okay? Good. After that we had some lunch. After lunch we had some recess, back to seatwork. After that I was the first person finished with everything. After that it was almost time to go home, but we watched a movie about Abraham Lincoln first. Then we went to extended. It's so cool that Balen is becoming a toddler. It's going to be sooo fun when he's walking all over the place!! I saw a video of him walking. Maybe Daddy can send a video of that to you. Well, actually, he did in his email. Balen's trying to turn my computer off. That little stinker. Daddy said it's okay, because he told the computer not to shutdown when it got pressed. I just pressed it and the computer didn't turn off. Cool! I never knew a computer could do that. I'm learning more and more about computers from Daddy. Balen's playing with the little pillow now. You know my purple smiley-face one? That one. I used the globe to get New Mexico. I decided to move to New Mexico so I could wear a funny hat. Hats, haha. New Mexico sounds really fun. That's why I chose to move to New Mexico. I was going to chose California, but I changed my mind. To New Mexicoooo. Cool, I did, you know, the little wiggle thing with your voice. It's called tremolo. I forgot it's called tremolo. Tremolo is really fun. Uh-oh, I gotta go, it's 1 minute past my time limit. Well, gotta go. Wish I could make it longer but...
Miss you lots,AbLove you lots.

What about my question?

I'm glad you are taking care of your Daisy. Are the rest of the house plants doing well, too? I hope so!

You didn't answer my question about moving. If it was up to you, where would you want the family to move to?

I can't call you this morning either - I have a meeting today that starts only half an hour before I'm supposed to call you. Meetings almost always take longer than that, so I don't think I'll be able to call you this morning. I'll try for tomorrow though.

I love you! Mommy
P.S. This font is called "Proxy 3" - can you see it?

RE: I love your emails...

Hi Mommy!
I Don`t really know what to say, but usually I figure it out. Altho it`s hard, it`s fun too.

Well, my day was pretty good. I played with Gabriella in the afternoon. I had barely any time with Gabriella! It`s not fair! Well, I got two things back. One for doing my homework during extended, and the other for no name on the board. I decided to get my pink puppy and horse-on-a-stick back again. Well, it was a good day. We did seat work and stuff, we had lunch, of course, and we had recess, of course, and at 10'o'clock we had play time until 10:30. After recess we went back to our seatwork. I got done with everything today. I'm getting more and more of my seatwork done every day, and I'm learning to control myself. And you know my daisy? It's doing okay. It might as well get watered soon. When I'm done with my email, I'll water it. Well, that's my day, and ding ding second thing done. Well, with my email anyway.

Now starting third part of the email. For some reason, your new font didn't come out. This computer doesn't have that font. It's Daddy's old laptop. It's already 8:09, it's already going faster than I think, so I might as well go. Now I can water my plant. Well, love you lots.

Abigail

I love your emails...

I think you are very funny, Abigail! I read your emails to some of my coworkers, and they laugh too. It's so cute and funny the things that you say. Like the "My Favorite Fonts List" thing. Cute.

What do you think of this font? I think it's a little hard to read...but maybe you like it. It's called Banjoman Open Bold.

Please let me know when Balen starts signing in ernest. (That means when he's doing it on purpose all the time.)

It looks like we might have to move when I come back. I just want you to be prepared for it if we need to move - I know that you'll feel sad, but we'll be on to new adventures as a family. If you could choose, where would you want our family to move to? It has to be in the United States, so you can't pick another country, but you can pick any state you want. Maybe you could look at a map, or maybe you already have one in mind.

I love you! Please behave yourself!

Love,
Mommy

How I'm doing

[This is actually from Sunday, but it didn't come through properly]

We named our band: It's the "Down & Dirty Praise Band." Pretty silly, huh?

I'll see if someone can record us one day so that I can send that to you. Today was our first service where we played for worship. People said it sounded good. We're all excited about that.

It's another dusty day here today. The wind is blowing strong, and that means that we can't see the sun because there is just so much dust in the air. It's kinda like a cloudy and foggy day, only instead of everything being a misty-white, everything is sort of orange colored and EVERYTHING gets very dusty and dirty.

Today is a relaxed day for me - I have afew things to do, but no big hurry to get them done. I've got plenty of time! I painted my toenails earlier - it's nice to have pretty toes even if I only get to see them when I'm changing clothes or taking a shower. I also put hair into a couple of braids-something a little different! I'm not allowed to let my hair hang down loose at any time, and sometimes I get tired of putting my up. But doing a couple of braids is a way to do things a little different.

I'll call you guys in a little bit. I love you all!

Mommy

RE: What's Up?

Hi Mommy! Although my email has to be short, I might make it a medium and small sized email. My day was really fun. I drew Spirit jumping over the canyon. I had forgotten that I’m not allowed to color. Have you tried a new font, yet? I’m doing a new font right now called Courier New. I like Courier New, it’s one of my favorite fonts. I like it so much that it’s going to be on My Favorite Font List. Do you like that name? I think it’s a good name. The title is My Favorite Font List.

I don’t know what’s up with myself, really. Jazz and Morpheus are doing alright. I’ve been feeding the cat, and the dog has been getting enough food and enough exercise and enough sunshine, at least. So, apparently they are doing okay. Yeah, it is still cold out. It was 8 degrees out today. It was freezing. Well, this morning it was 8 degrees. It was not very nice. I’m glad you had a day WAY better than the dust storm you had on Saturday and Sunday! Because that’s good! I know, they’ve gotta stink. At least it’s not too bad for you guys to breathe in there. Because if it was too bad for you to breathe, I would feel real bad because someone might die. Because what if you are one of them who would have died?

Balen’s not signing very much, but when Balen was eating he pointed to his mouth like he was thirsty or hungry. Then he took his juice and started drinking it. That’s a sign. Well, Balen’s been doing pretty good at home. But right now he’s crying. Poor baby’s tired.

I wish I could make this email longer, but…
Love,
Abigail

What's Up?

What's up with you, little girl? I hope you are behaving well for Daddy and at school.

Here's something I haven't asked about yet - how are Jazz and Morpheus? They probably don't miss me very much, but are they doing ok too? I hope so!

So is it still cold out? Today was a warm slightly warm and sunny day for us - WAY better than the dust storm we had on Saturday/Sunday! Those really stink! And they leave everything so dirty, even your skin! And it's kinda hard to breathe, too. But not too bad.

I enjoy hearing about your days. Tell me more about what you are learning in school.

Is Balen doing any signs yet? Are you and Daddy still signing to him? He will probably start signing back to you very soon, since we've been signing to him for quite a while now.

Well, I'm gonna study some AF (that's short for Air Force) stuff for a class I have to take.

I love you,
Mommy

I love you too much

Hello!
I love you too much for you to be away from me. Your so special to me because your so loving to me.

Today was pretty good. I mean,(sigh). How about trying a new font? A font is how your letters look. [Abigail typed up to this sentence]. I think you should really try a new font. I’m trying a new font called “Arial Rounded MT Bold”. Well, today I did quite a few things, plus today was the Super Bowl for us.

I gotta leave real soon, because I’m going to wake up in 7 hours for school. So I’ve gotta go like now. I wish I could make it longer, but goodbye.

Love ya lots,
Abigail

One of the days that was an OK day

Today my day was okay. Well, okay okay, anyway. Today I was better at nap time than Balen. Balen was a big fussy-butt. He was hard to control. I was a little bit easier to be controlled at the end because I didn’t make much noise at the end, and moved calmly. But Balen was wiggling all over and stuff, and he was really noisy and he was hitting himself and stuff to keep himself awake. Whoa! Holy cow! It’s already 9:42 pm! Wow, time goes past fast. Cool, past fast, they rhyme!

My day was pretty good. I at least got one thing back. Giggle giggle, giggle. Giggle. Giggle some more. Flat out laughing, now. Threatening Daddy with my fist. (Daddy wrote that last part) Daddy’s being so silly. I was laughing all that time, and he wrote that down, and that made me laugh out loud. It was funny! Well, soon I gotta go. I can tell you a little bit more about my day, then Bam!!! I’m outta here. Well, tonight at the party for making cards, everyone got a blue backpack that had little presents and mouse pads in it (computer mouses, anyway). Well, I gotta go now. Baaaa-bye! See ya later, alligatahr!

Love you so so so so much!
Abigail

Long day today...

Today was a long day...I'm going to eat now, but I was supposed be done with work over an hour ago. We had a lot of meetings this afternoon, and we weren't allowed to go outside.

But, everything is ok now - but I can't stay here at the computer a long time to type you an email. I have people waiting for me so that we can all go to get some chow. That's what we call getting food.

Anyways, I'm safe and sound, and tonight I'm going to play some games and maybe workout. I might play my guitar. Tomorrow is Sunday, and that's my day off. I'm part of a band for church - I'm one of the singers. Pretty neat, huh? Maybe I'll have someone take pictures some time so that you can see me and "the band." And the band is made up entirely of people from my squadron, except for the Chaplain. That's also really cool.

Gotta go. I love you,
Mommy

How it is for me in my life

My life is tough sometimes. But, it’s still becoming easier as I get better with my attitude and my behavior. If I can control my behavior, my behavior will become better. When that happens my life will be easier. Plus I won’t have to say sorry anymore. Because I have been saying sorry to Daddy.

The field trip is going to be so fun when it happens. Although it’s a long time from now, still, if me and daddy and Balen just don’t focus on the time every day, the time will be faster, and before we all know it’ll be time for me to have the field trip. Balen is in Daddy’s arms right now. He’s holding his little pacifier a weird way. Poor Balen is cranky and tired. He was drinking in my bed, but instead he cried and gave up the bottle and he wanted his pacifier. I don’t know why he gives up his bottles of formula. Maybe he’s having too much juice. Right now Balen is playing with Daddy’s little zipper on his coat. Now Balen’s reaching for the mouse. Balen was clicking on it. Balen is such a cute little baby boy. I don’t know how he reaches for everything, but how he stretches is funny. He’s like “stretchable-man”! LOL

My day was real good. Well, I’ll skip the morning things that we did at school. Today we did seatwork, then after that I got finished real quick with seatwork. After that it was almost time for lunchtime so we lined up. Right before it was time for gym, Daddy and Balen came in and gave me my gym clothes. It was just in time! Phew, that was a close one. After we did lunch, we went out for recess, and after recess we went back up to the classroom for a little bit and then it was time for gym. Gym isn’t that fun, but sometimes it is fun. Today we got free-time at gym, because we had gym done so quick we had time for play. Something funny happened in gym. First Ms Sarah said it’s time to skip from wall to wall. After that someone yelled “Skiiiiip!” I laughed, I really thought it was funny. I wish I could talk to you longer. But I gotta go. Bye.

Love you lots,
Abigail

RE: The picture that I colored

I love your emails Abigail. They are so funny, and I think it's great. Reading your email today made me laugh and smile. Thank you!

It makes me very proud to know that you are behaving well. That's excellent! I am very impressed that you did your homework on your own without being told to. That's great! Wasn't it nice to have it all done, and didn't it feel good knowing that it was all because of you, not because some adult told you what to do? That's showing responsibility. Nice job!

I'm glad you got my letter. I'm sending one letter every week, and each one will have another "clue" or puzzle piece. I can't wait to see the picture of how you colored the "U."

I have a meeting I need to go to now. Sorry about your field trip, but you will still get to go.

I love you - all of you!
Mommy

The picture that I colored

The picture that you sent me from the letter, that was the letter “U”: I can’t figure out what the puzzle is, but I’m going to have to figure out the puzzle on my own once you get back. Well, tonight I was really good. And I colored my “u” really good, you should see it. My daddy is sending a picture of it to you in his email. I got four things tonight because I was so good. One for no name on the board, one for doing my homework at extended without being asked, and one for my shower, and one for my chore. Tonight has been a good night for me. I bet you it’s going to be the best night ever, because there are still nights coming.

It’s sad, but now the field trip’s schedule is changed from this Friday to next Friday. I hate it when they have to be changed. Why is because there is not enough drivers. One of the driver’s quit. Why the drive quit is because there is going to be too much ice and snow at the same time tomorrow.

My day was really good. Balen! Sorry about that interruption, Balen is going after my hamper’s lid. I have no idea why he gets into my hamper’s lid. It’s funny. The four things I got back tonight are my horse on a stick, my DS, my brown horse that I always bring to a sleepover when I go to Gabriella’s house, and my pink puppy named Pink Stripes I got from Victoria’s Secret. Balen always goes after my space bar on my computer. He always just goes boom, boom, boom, a lot of times on it. He just stood on his tippy-toes. He stands on his tippy-toes more and more. He’s going after my space bar again! [sigh] I have no idea why he does that all the time. He just does it a lot.

Well, now I have 3 more minutes until I am done with my email, and that will be 8:20. Because right now it’s 8:17, and 17 + 3 is 20. That means I have to be done with my email in 3 more minutes, but I wish I had 10 more minutes because I want to talk to you longer. Well, here’s a “Hi” from Balen, and “Hi” from Daddy, too. I don’t know how Balen always finds a way to get to something that he’s not allowed to have. He always finds a way. That’s funny. Balen’s laughing about more and more things. And I start to get more and more excited about more things.

Well, I gotta go now. Bye!

Love you lots,
Abigail

Bushmaster

Here's a couple of pictures from my trip this morning. I went outside the base to look at some water stuff for another base. We were escorted by the Australians, and we rode in their Bushmasters - pretty cool, huh?