Erik arrived home from his last deployment of 2009 on November 18th - woohoo! He officially took all his stuff off the USS George Washington and he isn't going to be carrier-based for a couple years, at least. This means we don't have to buy two of everything now (i.e. boat socks vs real socks, boat towels vs real towels, boat toiletries vs home toiletries, etc). Even better, it means that we are back together again.
I wasn't here for the homecoming since I was in the States for the Thanksgiving holiday, but eventually we got back to being our cozy little family on Dec 4th. If I was cute and furry and had a tail, it could have gone a little something like this:
