It has been forever since I blogged. I need to today though. I probably need to ramble more than anything. I have been evaluating friendship lately. With the recent change in duty station we are on the move. More and more I have seen military spouses posting requests for moms get togethers, wife’s meetings, you name it. The soldiers have a new unit and new soldiers to train with. The wives and kids get to start over. I miss my friends, terribly! The days in Colorado with the most amazing ladies and friends seem like a dream. I will meet more, in due time, until then, man I miss my friendships.
I love sweets! April 19, 2009
Well I was unpacking boxes and found a cookie book I didn’t know even existed ( I obviously needed to buy that). I love it when you find new (but not so new) things. So I decided to make some cookies with the kids tonight. We made lemon bar cookies. WOW they were so good! We have delivered some to our great neighbors and tomorrow we will drop some off for the babysitter and her parents. I absolutely love to bake, its the cleaning of the kitchen that keeps me from doing it more often. I am NOT a fan of cleaning. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like things dirty so I clean often, but I don’t like it at all! So, obviously I have a problem, I love sweets and love to bake, but don’t like to clean up after it 
Hand, Foot and Mouth February 6, 2009
Oh yes, the newest sickness to plague our family. The two oldest have it now and mommy is praying that the little one doesn’ t get it. Good thing it has gotten cold here in Colorado Springs, I can stayed inside with the festering disease and hope it doesn’t spread, oh and wash everything is sight! GOOD TIMES.
On the bright side, all the meds sure do keep the kids moving slower than usual 
Thursday night….hummm June 27, 2008
Am I the only one who totally misses Grey’s Anatomy? What a sad Thursday night.
Missing you May 2, 2008
My husband. I was thinking today about how much I missed everyone when I was deployed. Now I was able to call everyone from Cuba, e-mail daily, and chat most of the time. It was hard to call my status “deployed” other than it was involuntary and I didn’t have my family there. It was still a beach and some great living quarters. So as I think about my husband in Afghanistan I can only feel pride for all he has chosen to give up to help the people of that country and provide safety to our Nation. When he asks me how my day is and I start to complain about being sick, the children being sick, the house stuff breaking, he provides positive thoughts to help me through my day. He is my strength.
Today when I woke up it was snowing. Yesterday we all got sunburns and today… snow. Since I grew up on the beach I was not at all happy about the snow, then I got a message from my honey. It was 110 deg. at it is nighttime there. He had been out working all day in the heat. And I was gonna complain about the snow. Perspective. I need to find a different perspective. I need to be his strength. I need to give back to him all those positive things he gives me everyday. No wonder he’s our hero!
I love you honey. Here’s a picture from snowy Colorado! We love you!
So many feelings…So little time! April 26, 2008
God has blessed me with the ability to stay home with my children. I haven’t gotten the patience part of that blessing yet, but we can “afford” for me to stay home. So WHY OH WHY am I so stressed, depressed, angry, frusterated, the list goes on!!? I’m not at work, which was extremely stressful (so I thought). I’m just home spending time with my children…right.
When all is said and done I’ve gotten two forms of advice about my dilema. My mom says to go back to work, I don’t belong here. My husband says to see the happy side of things. Although both of these sets of advice intially made me angry, I’m gonna pick one and roll with it. What the worst that can happen? The day already stinks. Even though my husband is rarely right, (compaired to me) I’m going to go with his advice. Here is a gratitude list (wineymomma would love this!).
A= Aunt Debbie / B=Blogging / C=Cookies / D=Daddy / E=Emmie / F=Friends / G= God / H=Husband / I=Income Tax returns / J=Jokes / K=Kittens / L=Love / M=motherhood / N=Naps / O=Others / P=Peanuts / Q=Questions / R=Ryan / S=Safety / T=Tickles / U=Underwear / V=Visitors / W=Women / X=Xanax / Y=youthfulness / Z=zoo
I do feel better. I guess he’s right sometimes.
I can’t make this stuff up! April 13, 2008
I had a crazy day, a depressing day, and I didn’t want to blog. I thought that is exactly why I should blog, maybe it will make me feel better. After reading some of my favorite blogs (mary and bob, wineymomma, and prudie) I decided to tackle my blog. At first I thought I could right about how stinky today was but who wants to read that? So here are some great things that happened today.
Since most people knew ‘the honey’ was officially in Afghanistan today I got a TON of calls from some really AMAZING women just being the best friends a girl could ever ask for! These ladies really are the best that God could make!
Second, I put the kids in the tub to be entertained while I cleaned up from dinner. When I returned 3 minutes later they had gotten the newspaper dad had left by the towlet and put in the bath, both children where blue! Smurfs! Blue all over! They must have used the newspaper as a washcloth. Too bad I didn’t get a picture of that.
Right before bed I did get an “I’m safe and okay” call to help me sleep, I wasn’t expecting that at all, what a great present.
I got to work in my yard today…. there was at least 3 hours worth of sun and I made use of every minute of it!
Today wasn’t really that bad now that I’m blogging about it!
