Twenty Eight Days is All He Gets

Well, looks like my husband won't get to spend time with me as planned. He's been working really hard in the past few days on getting a 30-day leave request approved, and today he just dropped the bomb. Twenty-eight days of leave - that's all he'd probably be getting. He mentioned in his e-mail that he has a total of sixty available days of leave, but because I think, he's also planning on spending Christmas with mom in Oklahoma this coming December, maybe that's why they didn't approve him taking a leave of thirty [30] days. Don't get me wrong. I am not complaining here or anything. I just don't understand why they won't add two more days to make it thirty [30] instead. What is two days? What difference would it make if they give it to him so he can have at least a whole month of vacation? This thing just gave me the queerest feeling and I am not happy about it - not at all.

Prayers are still there that God would help us find a way. Right now, for me at least, it seems like there's no other way out than that very door in the end of this dark hallway which leads to a trodden path I never want to set my foot on in the first place. Of course, I am grateful to God that we will be spending almost a month-long of time with each other. Being in the military, this is really something I consider as a big blessing because not everybody gets to spend more time with their love ones during R and R, and I'm thankful that my husband has been allowed to stay for close to a month. It's just that, those two days mean a lot and we could use those days to do more stuff together. We are not together most of the time, that is why time is of import to the both of us that even a single minute is too precious to waste. Though I was a bit dubious right from the very beginning about this matter, I still didn't lose hope that he will get his request for a 30-day leave, approved. But I think I have to just veer away from that thought now. D told me he'll be submitting the request sheet to his Chiefs today. I was like, so I think that's it - twenty eight days - not bad, though isn't it?! But still I must admit, that made me feel so bereft of time and I believe we deserve to be with each other longer than that.