So last Wednesday I had the best present…I was still off school, but Emma and Liam had school. Our day didn’t start off on time exactly since little man here decided to sleep late. Instead of getting out the door […]
So last Wednesday I had the best present…I was still off school, but Emma and Liam had school. Our day didn’t start off on time exactly since little man here decided to sleep late. Instead of getting out the door […]
So I am not very excited about 2018 for a lot of reasons, but I am going to try and knock off a lot of things on my to-do list, and I’m planning on tracking my adventures in reading, cooking, […]
So Mark is ending his tour in Iraq. When he wakes up tomorrow, he has just one week left in the country, and then he’ll be back in the United States in just 12 days. We should be completely excited…but […]
I don’t know why, but I feel like these next 45 days are crawling. I miss Mark more than ever. I went to a wedding tonight, and while it was beautiful, it was hard to have fun. I can’t drink […]
So life has been kind of crazy. I went from thinking I had everything under control to feeling like everything was unraveling. In December, Mark had been told that we were going to Albuquerque. I had been told by his […]
OK, so most people know that I pretty much feel like I don’t fit in with the military world. I’ve never clicked with the spouses. I just have different values, and I always feel like an outsider at events. I […]
So, it’s been weird being back at SLU 12 years after I graduated from undergrad. First, how weird is it to say that? When did I get that old? Not that 32 is old…I know it’s not, but it feels […]
HOWEVER…THIS ENTIRE STORY IS PRETTY FUNNY…NOW. Funny isn’t what I would have called it at 4:30 p.m. today. As anyone who reads my blog knows, Mark and I have been trying to have a baby since June 2008. I had […]
So since Mark left, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how lucky we are. We’re doing really well despite the deployment. That’s not typical for many couples, and it’s definitely not true for couples where one spouse is […]
I can’t believe how quickly the last two weeks flew by. Having Mark home was incredible. We had our best new year’s yet. In the last two weeks, I fell crazily in love with him all over again. I often […]