There is a lot of Blogging Pressure lately!  Okay, maybe only pressure from one of the 5 people who actually read my Blog, but it catches up, you know! So as I wait to pick my dh up from the airport this evening, it makes me think, three years ago this day I was picking him up at the same airport. Crazy how things work out, 3 years ago today I was as excited as I could possibly be, packing up our 2 children and waddling my pregnant self out the door to meet my dh for his mid-tour leave. And therin lies the Story of Monster.  The Surprise 3rd Edition to our family. In 2007 my dh was in predeployment training for his 3rd tour in Afghanistan, this as a Loader for a Leopard Tank.  We knew, going into the new year, that he was leaving.  We also knew there were several months of training he would have to complete in the spring before his summer departure.  We were as prepared as we could be, after all, this was the 3rd time around.  Freckles was turning 5 and Drama was turning 2 that year.  Not the end of the world, just another tour, nothing we hadn’t done before and couldn’t do again. Thing is, I had looked at each tour a little differently.  The first, I thought “okay, I’m pregnant, but I only have to look after me.  Nothing else to do.  No one else to care for.  I can do this.”  Second tour I thought “I have a child, but I’m not pregnant.  Just one child, I can do this.”  Third…