My fabulous and funny friend Kryste did an awesome job summarizing the amazing friendships that are formed amongst us military wives. Check it out, it made me cry!
"Friends are relatives you make for yourself." - Eustache Deschamps
My long time super awesome friend Christine showed me this video a while back. I seriously almost wet myself. Check it out!
Strangely enough, our six month mark just happened to hit on the same day as the cancellation of our spouses retreat, the third anniversary of the deaths of two pilots we lost during the last deployment and culminated with the Fort Hood tragedy. I believe it safe to say, it was not the best of days around these parts. Please pray for the soldiers and family's of those in Ft Hood, take the time to thank a soldier or his family members, say a few prayers for those family members whom have paid the ultimate price and count your lucky stars that there are people willing to give up so much for our country! Freedom isn't free. Servicemen and women give up so much more then just their time. They give up anniversaries, birthdays, hockey games, graduations, hugs from their kids and being around to see all those firsts (teeth, steps, goals, etc) Its important to not take all those things for granted, because so many right now are dying to ensure these luxuries still exist!
and I just can't hide it!!!!
Nana and Cheez come tomorrow! The reinforcements are on their way! Thank goodness cause stuff needs fixing, babies need bouncing and a five year old needs listening ears that aren't trained to drone him out!!!!
to set me off into a fit of tears! We were suppose to go to The Great Wolf Lodge this weekend on an all expense paid trip by the Army in honor of our sacrifices as family members of deployed spouses. I realize as I type this out, there are far bigger problems in this world and this is but a blimp on the screen in my life but I am writing it anyways! This morning after finalizing details with a friend who was also going on the trip, I receive an email saying that the trip has been canceled. The day before we leave for the trip. Seriously? Apparently it all comes down to money, or contracts or some sort of BS far above me but the point of it all is the fact that Isaac Andrew has been looking forward to this for weeks. It has been all he talks about. Now today, after he gets off the bus, I get to break it to him that we are not going. I understand that life sucks, that sometimes things happen, that things aren't all roses and flipping sunshine but seriously, I am an adult. This is my five year old, who already desperately misses his daddy. Who even said last night, I sure wish daddy could come with us. We are going to have so much fun and Blue Daddy loves the Great Wolf Lodge! Seriously, why? why? why? why? why? Why now? Why when things are already so hard and so disappointing to him. Why when I can barely even think about this without getting all upset do I now have to now break the news to my five year old and crush him. I hate this part of parenting. Ironically, this was all put into place to give us a break from reality, to thank us for our silence sacrifices, to make up for the fact that our family member is deployed to a foreign land for a year, to put a smile on our children's faces. I am so not happy right now!
I may not have been blessed with flat abs and a nose proportionate to my face but I sure did get blessed with super awesome kids!!!
