But we haven't sent each other any letters since he's been deployed; traditional paper letters can take over a week to make it across the Atlantic. We are able to talk on the phone every day, and most days we also exchange messages on Facebook. As our time on the phone is limited, we use these messages to hold longer discussions, exchange passwords and other important information, communicate sudden ideas or thoughts that normally could be sent via text message or quick phone call. The messages have become an essential means of interaction; each morning, the very first thing I do is check for anything he sent while I was sleeping.
I haven't worked it out just yet, but I want to collect them all in a book or an album, in order. Maybe together with the pages of this blog? I'd like Austin to see how our lives were before (and as) he arrived. I don't know. Maybe they're actually boring, but I myself am fascinated to look back at our "letters" to each other.
A couple of our messages:
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GUESS WHAT!!!
Between Theseus and You
Antiope August 31 at 6:13pm
4 kittens came to our house!!!!! They are all sleeping on the lawn furniture on the porch right now!! Two are orange and white, one is a calico, one is a grey tiger stripe. Can I keep them? 7 cats wouldn't be so bad...
Theseus September 1 at 2:42am
mmmm 7 is a little too much buuuuuuuuuut you can keep one if you like......... :)
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I wrote a haiku for you!
Between Theseus and You
Antiope August 31 at 3:01pm
a sleeping Monkey
someone tickled his grey foot
who did it? not me
Theseus September 1 at 2:43am
i think it WAS you!!!!!!! i looove my wifeee
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bees
Between Theseus and You
Antiope November 2 at 2:51pm
let's get some
Theseus November 3 at 3:53am
baaaaaabe
a goat, then a cow or cows, now bees.......
where are they all gonna go????
Antiope November 3 at 7:15am
on our farm! bees will pollinate our garden. so do some researching so you can build a beehive.
Theseus November 3 at 9:33am
what farm, little thing? we have a little house on a little lake in Jersey........ i think we are going to have to look for a bigger place!!!!
Antiope November 3 at 12:43pm
Our house isn't that little, but yes, we do need a bigger place, def a bigger lot. And not in NJ.
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:(
Between You and Theseus
Theseus November 20 at 7:42am
i was reading your blogs today.....
made me miss you alot :(
made me really ache wanting to be near you
i'm sad today
Antiope November 21 at 8:54am
why honey? what did I say that made you sad? :(
Theseus November 21 at 9:03am
you were talking about Marshmallow and your adventures with the kittens.... and how sad you were to see him go...
and talking about school
and i don't know
just was sad
i just miss you a lot