Care packages

There's something both satisfying and very sad about sending a care package off to the hubs. The obvious is that it's satisfying knowing that the things that I have written, collected, crafted, touched, packaged, arranged just so and so forth will be in his hands, hopefully soon (poke, poke, army mail ;).

The sad bit is giving up the items I've been working on and sending them away. It seems odd, but I know that when they're out of my hands, they won't be coming back until he does. And then there's that other part of trying to figure out what to send next to top this one.

Luckily anyone going through separation these days is not the first to do so, and we have tons of ideas from those before us and amazing technology to make staying close easier.

Something I've been thinking of lately- I think there are really three things that bring out parts of a relationship that otherwise may be gloss-overable.

• traveling together
• playing games together and with groups
• conducting a long distance relationship

These three things more than anything else have taught me a lot about how we function together, how we overcome obstacles, what creates tensions and how we stay close through difficult times. Just my random thought for the day.

Vocab of the day: 
Military history lesson instead- the origin of CARE packages (WWII) and what was in them (1 pound of lard and liver loaf, for starters): http://www.care.org/about/history.asp