Nate's Job

Okay, so he said I can't take a picture of it, but Nate brought home a HUGE (it's the size of a large poster) I'm talking REALLY HUGE map. It has like a million little lines, numbers, words, who knows what the crap it all means, but it's the air space that he has to memorize!!!! He had to memorize a smaller one in AK, and I saw the one for Oklahoma that he memorized there, and his test- they totally handed him a blank piece of paper and he had to recreate it from memory, and he did pretty darn awesome on that one. THIS one seems even WORSE! He says he has like a week or something to memorize it. Not that there's a lot of pressure to get it exact, only a few hundred lives are at stake if he doesn't have it just right.... THANK GOODNESS it's Nate hat has that job and not me. Not to mention his millions of 3 letter abbreviations he's been memorizing for the last 2 1/2 weeks- not millions, that's an exaggeration, but honestly it's like 400. His brain has got to be SO FULL!! I have no idea how he carries on doing what we need him to do here at home with all that crammed in his head. But somehow he does. And he doesn't just do it- he does it well! Yesterday he was outside playing tag with the kids and their friends for like an hour. It's so my favorite thing when he does stuff like that with the kids- he's such a good dad. And of course he takes care of me as well. He's amazing. I just love him.

(by the way, this isn't his map that he told me not to take a picture of- it's a picture I found online that looked similar just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. Although you'd have to times this by 20 to get the idea of how complex Nate's is!!! This would be like a small corner of his.)