Halfway there!!

Well, first sorry for the delay in posting anything. We've had a bit of an interruption in our daily schedule and his name is Miles. :-) I've spoken to Nic once and emailed back and forth. He's doing fine and things are going like they usually do. He hasn't had any special requests for care package contents so I guess we're doing a good job on that front. He was very excited to remind me that he's halfway done with deployment...and I was also VERY excited to be reminded of that!

He said the rumor (so don't hold your breath) is that they'll start breaking down their unit in December for a return home in February or March. We had expected a March return so a February would be delightful! Like I said though, this is the rumor mill...so take it with a grain of salt. Either way we're over the hump and on the downhill slide now.

He did say his group (I suck at knowing if it's his "unit" or "team" or "squad" or whatever else) was hit with an explosive. He said everyone was alright, but one guy got pretty shook up. He wasn't injured seriously, just rattled pretty good. He said it went off right in front of him, but he was fine. (Can we all thank God for that please?!)

Dad said he talked to him and he had just gotten finished with latrine duty. Sounds horrendous right? Well, I'm sure it was, but not as bad for Nic as it could've been. His job his time around was to carry the blue stuff to dump down in the commode part. He was doing just that when he heard yelling outside. He ran out to see what was going on and the hose had come loose and the one of the other guys was covered in latrine contents. Dad said Nic walked over and handed the guy a towel he had on him and said "You can keep that." :-)

All seems to be going okay though. He's very excited to get home for many reasons...but one is laying next to me asleep at the moment. He's a very proud uncle...and we couldn't be more proud of him back. So keep the cards, letters and packages coming...he appreciates them very much and it keeps his morale high when it's hot as hell and just miserable in general.