So, you know when I said Breaking Dawn came out in April? Well, if I took two minutes to actually read the pre-order on Amazon I would have seen that it was in fact August and not April. Sorry. Good thing I've got that order in.

Also, not on my own, I finally found out why Jane was getting picked on at school. The other night at a Valentine's dinner for all the wives at the Mess Hall I was telling my friend that I had pulled Jane. I was telling her why and saying I just didn't quite get it. She looked around, leaned in, and said in a low voice "Brooke, it's because she's white." The next day when Jane's friend Shyah got home from school she said that she and Ranisha had been talking about it and they thought that maybe kids were being mean to Jane because she was white. So, I told Jane one of my friends had said the same thing (I didn't tell her who). I had debated telling her because I didn't want her to build up prejudices but I also didn't want her to continue to wonder what she was doing wrong. I guess I hadn't thought that direction. I was talking to our R.S pres. at church today. She is a good friend of mine but between our schedules we rarely do anything. She asked how things were going and I told her about our week. She looked at me and exclaimed "I'm not the only one(her husband is the manager of the new commissary)! That's why I kept asking you at the beginning of the school year if Jane was doing okay. I feel like I picked up my kids and dropped them into an inner city school (she has one in eighth grade and one a junior). They debate homeschooling on a weekly basis."

So while it is frustrating, I feel better knowing there isn't some bizarre part of my daughter that ostracizes her. I don't mind if it's her dad's rank, her values, or her skin color which seem to be the offending combination. Only because those are things we can't or won't do anything about. In some ways I think it is a good lesson for her.

Everything else is going reasonably well. Mike should be home around the 11th. Have I said this? We aren't excited or anything. By the way I did two rest days. I tweaked my back lifting Ellyn on Friday. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be good again. It was nice to read an e-mail from Tom. We love you all. Oh- good news! They have changed the Space-A rules and I can get a letter for Mike's entire deployment and fly CONUS as well as OCONUS. So for those that don't know what that means. I can fly within the U.S. on the Space A flights as well. So I can fly into McChord and then fly McChord to somewhere that flies to Ramstein. So maybe I will be there for part of the summer. I'm really grateful for that change.