<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199947769849590158</id><updated>2012-02-16T02:40:59.151-08:00</updated><category term='husband'/><category term='stockings'/><category term='unhappiness'/><category term='christmas'/><category term='army'/><category term='military'/><category term='toddler'/><category term='missing family'/><category term='vacation'/><category term='afghanistan'/><title type='text'>Kissy's Blahblog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kissyrouse.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199947769849590158/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kissyrouse.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kissy Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01465500005838447980</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KD1DvmUw42Q/SYXkHIYnZhI/AAAAAAAABkU/OZ5j_210Dhk/S220/DSC01447.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199947769849590158.post-653481214401179660</id><published>2010-12-18T08:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T08:07:38.517-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unhappiness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='afghanistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='husband'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stockings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='missing family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='army'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toddler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><title type='text'>An Army Christmas</title><content type='html'>The first Saturday of a two week vacation involves a drive to the airport, for a friend, brunch with a couple in the same boat as us. Across the country, we are here, family is on the other side and missing us as we miss them. It's the hardest on me b/c since this journey began I haven't had a normal Christmas. Last year he was heading to Afghanistan, this year I am lodged in the Pacific Northwest left cooking for one and a toddler. Why is it hard to look on the bright side of things. It's the first Christmas with just the family I created; husband and child. We have a tree, be it fake this year, we have stockings; homemade. We have 15 days ahead of us with no work, no obligations, just us, just Christmas time. I should be happy right?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4199947769849590158-653481214401179660?l=kissyrouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kissyrouse.blogspot.com/feeds/653481214401179660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kissyrouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/army-christmas.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199947769849590158/posts/default/653481214401179660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4199947769849590158/posts/default/653481214401179660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kissyrouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/army-christmas.html' title='An Army Christmas'/><author><name>Kissy Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01465500005838447980</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KD1DvmUw42Q/SYXkHIYnZhI/AAAAAAAABkU/OZ5j_210Dhk/S220/DSC01447.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
