reading time: 2 minutes NOTE: Click here for a definition of Household 6! Sometimes something happens that just slaps you in the face with just where your spouse is. Saturday morning, I got a call from my FRG (Family Readiness Group, the unit support group for family members) leader to call my people with […]
reading time: 2 minutes I still miss you, Grandpa! :-( It has been 12 years today since my grandfather passed away and, in so many ways, it feels like it was just yesterday. I think it is almost harder now, with my grandmother gone, too. They were so much of a unit together that, […]
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reading time: < 1 minute A little humor in the face of adversity goes a long way. My dad, my brother Tripp and his girlfriend Ashley came over last night to go out to dinner with the kids and I for Donovan’s birthday. During the course of dinner, we got talking about his cancer. My […]
reading time: 2 minutes That is my basic outlook on life right now. For a lot of reasons. But one is overwhelming me right now, and I am really having a hard time getting straight with it. My dad has prostate cancer. I can’t even type it without starting to lose it. I think […]
reading time: < 1 minute School days = 8 hours of quiet! Back to days of waking up at the butt crack of dawn!! The alarm was set for 0530, an hour that I can’t seem to shake, despite years out of the Army! But I, of course, woke up at 0445 and couldn’t fall […]
reading time: 3 minutes Redeployment blues,… Well, Corey left for Afghanistan yesterday, at the absolute butt crack of dawn. We live 2+ hours from the airport so we left home at 0230. That meant, for me, getting up at 0130. That, well, SUCKED! We went to bed early, so early that neither of us […]
reading time: 2 minutes Reconnecting with the ex has been awkward, but hasn’t really been a bad thing. I am a big believer in not holding grudges or anger. I don’t necessarily think you have to get to the point of being best friends with someone that has wronged you, but carrying grudges and […]
reading time: 2 minutes So the weirdness began when I started seeing my ex-husband’s name and picture start popping up on my “suggested friends” section of my Facebook profile a few weeks ago. Considering that the last time I spoke to him was spring/summer of 2000, it was a little unnerving. At the time […]
reading time: < 1 minute Our trip to the Rennaissance Festival,… We headed to the Sterling Rennaissance Festival last Saturday and had lots of fun! All the pictures below are clickable for larger views and captions. It was Highland Games weekend at the faire, so most of the events had a Scottish flair to them, […]