Nice Work!

Luke passed his SCWS board!  Months of studying paid off and now he will actually get to have some spare time.  I'm expecting long emails now.  :)  He ended up having to do it on pretty short notice and he was pretty stressed, but managed to pull it off beautifully, of course.  The process is 48 hours and involves very little sleep, and it sounds like they threw a surprise or two at him.  He had the final board with his CO and a couple other officers.  I know from experience how badly your brain works on no sleep.  He was excited enough after passing it that he called me and he sounded soooo tired.  It made me want him home where he could sleep in our comfortable bed instead of whatever he has over there.  He also got his assignment for homeport which will be a really busy one, but shows that the people in charge think quite a bit of his leadership skills.  So yay.  Good news from Aghanistan.

Now here's a completely unrelated, but very cute picture.  Mango's hair has gotten long enough that it doesn't stick up on its own anymore, but makes for lots of fun in the bathtub.