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Impending Doom
I am awaiting the return of my husband, who has spent the last 6 months in Kuwait. I am anxious for his return, but at the same time, I am dreading it. Why?
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Care Packages
Care packages are the back-bone, the veritable life line of all correspondence when forward deployed. Nothing beats getting a box in the mail, opening it and finding little pieces of home inside. Its like Christmas and your birthday all rolled up into one. I know I used to live in the post office on board my last command. And even though my husband, who is in Kuwait right now, said it was okay that it took me almost two months to get him his first package in the mail, I know secretly he was hoping that I just hadn’t told him the truth. I wanted his package to arrive and…
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I Need a Vacation from Their Summer Vacation
I may need a vacation from my kids and their Summer vacation.
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It’s Mother’s Day…Happy?!
I should have been elated for my special day. It was not the case. I think I am the only one aware in my household *that and my 5 year old* that this weekend was Mother’s Day. He brought me home a plant that he seeded himself in class and a card cut out to form the word MOM with his photo on the front. This was a work of pure genius. My other son brought me a golden dragon (for the Chinese Year of the Dragon that he and I share) that he crafted with his hands out of clay. It was wondrous and I quickly hid it from…
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D-Day – Battle of the Bulge
Today I visited a well recommended diet clinic in my area. I had two friends experience amazing results at said clinic, and given that left to my own devices, I will not motivate myself, I needed an outside factor.
