Dan's Homecoming

Yesterday was a crazy day as we were waiting in excited anticipation for the phone call telling us what flight Dan would be on. First, it was a late night flight landing at 10 pm. Disappointing. Then, we rushed out the door when he called to say he got an earlier flight and would be to Baltimore in 2 hours! We still had to buy our balloons and hang our banner, you know? We did everything we needed and were heading to the interstate when the phone rang again. Stand-by...and no one had given up their seat to a soldier returning to his family from Iraq. Pathetic. Majorly disappointed that time. In the end, we set out for the base about 8:30 to ride with Sgt. M who had to drive Dan back to the base because of his weapon. We made it to the airport a little before 10 ~ perfect timing as his plane was scheduled to land around that time. Sgt M dropped us off at arrivals and we ran in to the airport. We passed the luggage return flashing Dan's flight so we knew he had already landed. We got up the escalator and the area was empty. We looked around and there was Dan with a luggage cart piled high with stuff looking for us. All my plans of having the kids lined up with their signs and "American Hero" balloons were dashed, but I guess it really didn't matter as the kids rushed into his arms!

We made it home about midnight tired and very happy to be a family together again.