A little something special....

So, there's a couple reasons why I'm posting this. I think part of the story is funny and the other part is to help Aaron feel like he is still close to home even though he is far away.

When Aaron deploys he has to bring his own bedding with him: sheets and pillowcases, etc.

For the last 3 deployments he has brought with him purple sheets that I used to have on my twin bed in college and when we met actually. They were the only twin sheets we had in our linen closet because we no longer had any twin beds in the house after we got married. Our guest bed is also a queen.

So every time he would go to deploy I would say "Aaron, you don't have to take those purple sheets with you. Let's go buy you some new ones."

And he would say to me "No, they remind me of you because you used to sleep on them."

Seriously, how could I argue with that?

But this time, I had a better idea and a way for him to not be embarrassed by purple sheets. Ok, so he obviously wasn't embarrassed because he kept using them-maybe it was me embarrassed to send my husband "away to war" with purple sheets! I was going to make him some homemade pillowcases so that way it was made by me instead of something that was used by me. And the fabric choice you may ask -- BYU of course! I had my wonderful sister-in-law Erica get me some BYU fabric, since she is in Utah. I wasn't going to make the whole sheet set because that would just be a lot for me to do and by the time I was done, you might not be able to tell which was the fitted sheet and which was the flat sheet!

So I bought him some navy blue sheets that he took with him Blue is the only color I think he sees sometimes! If you don't believe me, look in his closet! Good thing he's in the Air Force right? Anyway, I just made the pillowcases to go with his new sheet set and I'm excited that he will get to use them and the purple ones are here at home with me!

The finished product

Brady's testing it out for me

Hope you like them Aaron!