September

Scott in his office, his home away from home.
This was on a weekend on the way home from church (a few months back), which is why he's wearing church clothes and not his uniform.

September is the busiest month in the military budget world...so we've seen Scott very little this month. He's been working very hard to finish out the government fiscal year since he is the head of the budget office at Kadena. He's quoted in an article about it HERE.

Over the past few weeks he's been going to work before the kids wake up and coming back after they are in bed...and he has to work Saturdays and Sundays. It's exhausting and stressful for Scott and exhausting for me.
I'd been looking back at my picture a day photos for the year and realized how often Scott has had to work on the weekends this past year. Part of it is that he just has a lot of responsibility in his positions and part of it is that Kadena is a very big and busy base. I'm really hoping he has a more normal work life at our next assignment (but not holding my breath). We've already been told he will travel 25% of the time at his next job. Hmm
To make things a little worse for us this month Scott, Anna and I are sick. I don't know how, but Matthew seems to stay relatively healthy while the rest of us have been getting recurring colds all summer.
So September has not been the funnest time for me.
I'm REALLY excited for October, although Scott seems to have lots other work that will probably be pushed to October. So we'll see.