Deployment Curse

I am trying to believe that there is a reason for this.  That this will make me stronger.  I will look back and laugh at this moment one day.  That I will thank you for giving me these circumstances to make me stronger.  But right now it is hard for me to think logical.  I try not to get wrapped up in the whole deployment curse, but I swear it does exist.  I have experienced southern CA being on fire, my dog almost dying, and now my car gets flooded.  I don't know how the hell I get myself into these situations.  When the car just stopped driving, I couldn't even put together what was happening.  I thought no way, this is a dream and I am going to wake up any minute.  I quickly realized when the water was covering my feet that it wasn't a dream and I needed to pull myself together for Mason.  We ended up having to crawl through the windows, and long story short my swagger wagon might be totaled. 

The upside of this situation is that I have awesome people in my life.  I don't know what I would have done without Christy, Jen, and Matt.  They even had me laughing by the end of it all.  It is easy for people to say they will be there for you and to call them anytime you need anything.  Sometimes people don't mean it when they say that and don't want to be bogged down with your crisis.  Not my friends, they were there for our family.  I don't know what I would have done without them, and I am in debt to them. What makes them even better is that they don't expect anything, and I hope we can be there for them one day.