Hail and Farewell and FRG
My baby is three months old today. Wow that happened really fast!! It seems like just yesterday he was born, and now he is smiling and playful and seems more like a real little person each day!!
We went to the hail and farewell last night for the old Nav and for Joel (hailing Joel and farewell to the old Nav, obviously.) and it was a lot of fun. I got to meet many of the other guys in the wardroom, and I also got to meet irl one of the wives, who had already friended me on Facebook. It was a good time. I think we are really going to like this boat a lot. So far I definitely like the wives that I have met. It seems like almost everyone has kids, and many of them are babies. Lance is developing quite the little harem, as a matter of fact. With the exception of my friend Debby, whose son is exactly a year older than Lance, all of my other friends have baby girls. Although our Eng and his wife do have 2 little boys…but I have not met them irl yet. I spoke with the Eng’s wife on the phone yesterday and she seems pretty cool. I think we will get along pretty well…and I think we will work together well also. She called me because she had heard from one of my other friends on the boat that I was interested in being involved with the FRG and the wardroom wives etc…and she does not want to be doing it all by herself, which she had been up to this point. Right now we are the 2 most senior wives in the area (both the CO and the XO are geobaching, and we don’t currently have a Weps) so the responsibility does fall to us. I don’t want to end up doing it all myself, either, so I am hoping I can convince her to continue to help until we are able to designate more people to be in charge. In reality, I am really hoping that we can get one of the Chief’s wives to step up with the FRG…it really should be a Chief’s wife and not an Officer’s wife in charge of that group. We will see how it goes tomorrow night at the meeting. I really want to focus more of my energy on getting the Wardroom wives into a more cohesive group. From what I understand they don’t do a whole lot…there was not a whole lot done for the wives who had babies when the boat was in Virginia, which is sad. We have a few ladies who are pregnant now and it would be nice if we had our acts together in time to do things like baby baskets and a casserole brigade when their babies come. Also, with all the holidays that are coming up it would be neat if we had it together enough to set something up for the Wardroom for them as well. We will see. I am going to get myself a little notebook today so I can write down ideas as they come, that way I am prepared when I sit down with the Eng’s wife eventually.
I guess that is all I have going on right now. Once the baby wakes up (from his nap in his crib again…he’s been asleep in there for over an hour now, yay!!) I think I will go grocery shopping…other than that, not a whole lot going on. Sometimes that’s a good thing though.
We went to the hail and farewell last night for the old Nav and for Joel (hailing Joel and farewell to the old Nav, obviously.) and it was a lot of fun. I got to meet many of the other guys in the wardroom, and I also got to meet irl one of the wives, who had already friended me on Facebook. It was a good time. I think we are really going to like this boat a lot. So far I definitely like the wives that I have met. It seems like almost everyone has kids, and many of them are babies. Lance is developing quite the little harem, as a matter of fact. With the exception of my friend Debby, whose son is exactly a year older than Lance, all of my other friends have baby girls. Although our Eng and his wife do have 2 little boys…but I have not met them irl yet. I spoke with the Eng’s wife on the phone yesterday and she seems pretty cool. I think we will get along pretty well…and I think we will work together well also. She called me because she had heard from one of my other friends on the boat that I was interested in being involved with the FRG and the wardroom wives etc…and she does not want to be doing it all by herself, which she had been up to this point. Right now we are the 2 most senior wives in the area (both the CO and the XO are geobaching, and we don’t currently have a Weps) so the responsibility does fall to us. I don’t want to end up doing it all myself, either, so I am hoping I can convince her to continue to help until we are able to designate more people to be in charge. In reality, I am really hoping that we can get one of the Chief’s wives to step up with the FRG…it really should be a Chief’s wife and not an Officer’s wife in charge of that group. We will see how it goes tomorrow night at the meeting. I really want to focus more of my energy on getting the Wardroom wives into a more cohesive group. From what I understand they don’t do a whole lot…there was not a whole lot done for the wives who had babies when the boat was in Virginia, which is sad. We have a few ladies who are pregnant now and it would be nice if we had our acts together in time to do things like baby baskets and a casserole brigade when their babies come. Also, with all the holidays that are coming up it would be neat if we had it together enough to set something up for the Wardroom for them as well. We will see. I am going to get myself a little notebook today so I can write down ideas as they come, that way I am prepared when I sit down with the Eng’s wife eventually.
I guess that is all I have going on right now. Once the baby wakes up (from his nap in his crib again…he’s been asleep in there for over an hour now, yay!!) I think I will go grocery shopping…other than that, not a whole lot going on. Sometimes that’s a good thing though.