It’s 1:28 a.m. and I’m trying to think of something worth writing about.

I just erased a whole paragraph about how many I women I know who are pregnant.  (Five.) (FIVE!)

Tomorrow there is no school due to Veteran’s Day.  I am thrilled about the no school thing because it means I can sleep in.

Then I think how glib that sounds because, dude!   Veterans!  Partly because we live near military bases, I know veterans.  I used to think of veterans as elderly hard-of-hearing guys with hair sprouting from their ears, but now I think of Rob and Jenn.  I think of Keith and Bob.  I think of the guy down the street who is deployed right now.

I know more than one soldier who is deployed.  I know moms who are handling everything here without their husbands.  I attended a military funeral only a few months ago.

Veterans have faces and names, families, dreams and lives.

And I am grateful in a way I cannot even express for their service to our country.

I’m also pretty happy about sleeping in.