I request a recount.

I request a recount, folks.

As much as I hate to say it, the jellybean jar has fallen a little bit by the wayside.

Let's just say Asher got a little bit obsessed for awhile.

The jellybean jar had to go out of sight.

And out of sight turned sometimes into out of mind...and well, somedays we ate no jellybeans, and somedays Asher got to eat 3. Or 5.

So, tonight was recount night. Ironically enough, today is 4 months to the day that Jake started on his official deployment orders. He's been gone for about 5 and a half months, though, with his pre-deployment training, but 4 months ago was the official start date of the jellybean jar. Essentially, we can look at today as 1/3 of this deployment down, 2/3 to go....and that looks pretty awesome, even from someone who hates fractions!

Tonight after I put Asher to bed, I recounted. We actually started with 400 in the jar, because although I prefer to believe Jake will only be gone for 365 days, his orders are for no more than 400. So, 4 months worth of days = 125 days of missing our Jake. And 400-125 days down=275 days to go.

Here's a look at the two jellybean jars side by side, the day before Jake left.

And here's what we're looking at tackling beginning on December 1.
Not too shabby, eh?
Let's do this.

~Emily