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Grab Your Emotional Baggage – It’s Time for a Guilt Trip!
What do you do when you are blindsided by a question that reminds you that there was a better version of you that you left behind in the past? You pack your emotional baggage and embark on a guilt trip. Let's go!
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Vice Device
I have a vice. It’s called reading. I like to read way too much, and in result sometimes my children pay the price. Today my son paid the price for the fact that I went to bed much to late. I couldn’t fall asleep after I stayed up late reading, so I was on the computer until much later. By the time I went to bed I knew I was in trouble…it also doesn’t help that I have my cell phone as an alarm, and the ringer is a song I know too well. So it didn’t serve to wake me today and I almost made my son miss the…
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Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Impending doom is coming - in the form of the husband returning from deployment. Why the dread?
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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…











