college football player v. the D A D

January might not be my favorite month this year.

Of course, Justin left us last week. Jim left this morning for a three-week trip to the states.

He is going to be completing an NTSB aircraft crash investigation course and more training with stops in Texas and Oklahoma. Three weeks is a long time for him to be away. It's all part of being in the military. We have longer trips ahead of us this year. I should be grateful this one is only three weeks.

It's snowing today. For some reason, we don't have water. Little things always seem to happen when he is away.

We are all just a tad off track.
Going from a family of six to just four of us does not feel right.
Oh well, it is temporary.

Back in August when Justin left for college, the challenge of an arm-wrestling bout between him and Jim was thrown out on the table.

Caden was probably most excited and was ready for them to arm wrestle as soon as Justin walked off the plane.

I'm quite confident this will be a new tradition in our house: arm wrestling with dad.

After hitting the weights hard this semester, Jim said Justin was strong but the dad was a little too much for the college football player.

Dad:1,  Justin:0

We'll see what happens in May.