The Cushing Family: September 2009

I am posting this late but I wanted to make sure that my family and friends can see what is going on with the ship. So far this patrol is going good. My friend Emily and I were appointed as Ombudsman for the MUNRO. We are the link between the ship and the spouses. We are going to training next month and it should be fun.

In other news the boys are doing great in school. Matt is President of the band and he is trying to make sure that the cheerleaders, choir and everyone else is all on the same page. Being his Senior year he is enjoying it very much. Patrick is joining wrestling this year and he is very excited about that. He is also having fun in school. Last night was the bon fire and tonight Homecoming.

Anyway, here is the link http://uscgalaska.com/go/doc/780/322148/ check it out and see what the MUNRO has been up to since it left homeport!

Also, most importantly, the BLOG is up and running again.

http://uscgalaska.blogspot.com/

Enjoy your weekend!

So yesterday was a rough day. You would think that after 21 years of being married to a Coastguardsman I would have gotten use to him getting underway. That is so not the case. I have to say looking back at when we were first married and he would leave I have gotten better in the crying department.I only did it twice this time. I guess what made it a little harder yesterday was the fact that Mark had OOD. His first "official" day. During this last in port he was a "break in" OOD. For those of you that are sitting there reading this going "what the heck is an OOD", it mean Officer of the Day. He is basically in charge of the whole ship. Anyway, so back to my little pity party...so because Mark had OOD, I had to drop him off at the ship around 6ish yesterday morning. To make matters a little worse, they were suppose to leave at 3 pm so liberty expired at 1pm. So others got to spend more time with their hubbies. Oh well, old news now I suppose. So I drove into town to get the boys, because they wanted to see their dad off and since they got out of school at 2pm I had plenty of time to go get them. We made it to the pier around 2:30pm just in time to give him one last quick (and I mean quick) kiss goodbye! The plan was to turn the ship around and do some weight testing on some thingymajigger. To make my long story shorter, they didn't actually leave the pier until 6pm! But I did get to chat with Mark in those 3 1/2 hours we waited. You see every since we were married and he has been on ship, our closure is seeing the ship leave. We have always watched, except for one time when Patrick had an ortho appointment and we missed it. I rememer when Matthew was just a little guy and we were living in Port Angeles. Mark was stationed on the CGC ACTIVE. Matt about 6 years old at the time. We were standing there as the ship pulled away, there was this little old lady standing with us watching (it was a public pier). Matt screams out "please don't take my daddy". The little old lady burst into tears! I am not sure who was crying more, her or Matt. Anyway, so we have always been there. Not quite as long as we were yesterday though. So once the ship started to leave, my friend Trudy and I (and the boys) followed it out of Woman's Bay. Below are shots of the ship leaving, the boys throwing rocks into the bay, the small boat behind the MUNRO. Enjoy and keep an eye out for the homecoming. Because of OPSEC rules, if you are on my Facebook, please don't ask me when they are due home. I will also post some more wonderful snow pictures once it starts falling again next month. NOTE: some of the pictures below were taken by Trudy they are also out of order!