It's your lucky day! I am officially posting twice in one day. I feel as though I have cheated all of my devoted followers by slacking lately. So today is a two-fer. Let me give you a little run down as to what has been going on in our world lately....


Since it's been a few weeks and I can't remember that far back, I will just start with last weekend.

Friday we had a family get together for Adam's moms birthday. It's always a good time when we get together with family. Ryder had a blast playing with Cole and Chase. He loves those boys like they were his own bros. Since the boys were able to keep each other entertained, I got to do some catching up with one of my sister in laws. It always seems like the kids are running in 95 different directions so it's difficult to hold a conversation for more than 5 minutes.

Saturday was such a great night. As I've mentioned before, I am an old army wife. I will always consider myself an army wife no matter how long Adam has been out. I feel like I was initiated into some highly honorable, secret club and frankly I was so proud to be apart of the 'elite' family that holds it down, I don't want to consider myself one of the 'old' ones. It was my mission to continue to help those lovely ladies as they saw their soldiers off to war again. I know the one thing that was always a welcome relief when Adam was deployed was getting some good ol' "me" time. So with that long drawn out explanation, I decided to get together with a couple other girls & my hubs to watch the kids of some of the army wives of the one and only 45th Infantry.

The scene: 4 adults & 7 kids.

The ages: 18 mos. to 4 years.

The house: Chaotic!

Just kidding! It went so much better than I ever could have imagined. The kids played good together and all behaved very well.  I truly enjoyed every minute of it and plan to do it again for them.

I don't write this to get my accalaids on earth as opposed to in Heaven, but to hopefully encourage others to help. I never would have known how hard it is for the loved ones left at home had Adam not been deployed. God taught me so many life lessons during that time. My family is true blue, born and bred American and I believe we will continue to do what we can for our military servicemen and women and the families that are supporting them.

This week starts the beginning of school for me. Chemistry is the culprit. My worst enemy. We met once in highschool and it kicked my butt. So we meet again. I'm hoping for a better outcome this time around.

That is my week in a nutshell. It's time for me to switch hats and head off to class. It's going to be a long night and I'm already missing my little Roo Roo........It's all worth it, right????

Love,
The Mrs.