My Thoughts

Satan walks the Earth and whispers in our ear that we aren't important to God, that we aren't worthy of his love and he waits till we are at our lowest and are lonely and shouts to us "Where is your God now?" and he tells God that we are unfaithful and only love God when everything is right and our blessings are abundant. Satan is the accuser to both you and God. So we should praise God when our cups are overflowing with his blessings and we should praise God even more when are cups are empty and are pain is great.

I wrote this on my face book this morning as a note, but wanted to keep it so I added it to my blog.
This is the message God gave me this morning on my ride back home from dropping the girls off at school. I believe that God sends us messages through out the day we just have to open our hearts and listen.

I think of myself as a strong Army wife and I get asked a lot "How do you do it?" or "I could never do what you do!" but the truth is if you loved a Soldier you would and could do what I and every good Army wife does. You would breath in and breath out and take it one second, one minute ,one hour, one day at a time. You would get through each day, some days would be harder than the other. Some nights would be lonelier. Some days you would tell yourself that you just can't do it anymore, that you don't want to do it anymore...then you would Army Wife up and take a deep breath, pick yourself off the floor and Soldier on, cause life doesn't stop and time breaks for no one. Yes I'm struggling and yes I'm sad and lonely a lot but i love a Soldier and the only choice I have is to keep loving that Soldier.

I REMEMBER

Today is September 11, 2011, I can't believe it has been ten years since that day that changed our world forever. Yes I remember where I was. I was living in post housing at Ft. Knox Kentucky I was 8 months pregnant with our youngest daughter Sarah and I had walked my two children to school that morning and came back home and instead of turning on the news like usual i climbed the stairs and layed back down, my sister Sandra called and asked me if I was watching the news I told her no I wasn't and she said that we were under attack and I should turn the news on because they were flying planes into our buildings. I remember looking out my bedroom window at the sky because I didn't know who or how we were being attacked or how large of an attack it was. I went down stairs turned on the television and watched the planes...our planes...being used to hit buildings and take lives of innocent people. I called my husband and he had been evacuated out of his building here at Ft. Knox. I went outside and  let a few of my neighbors know what was happening and was surprised to see Humvee's with gun racks mounted on top and larger military vehicles heading to my children's school. I knew they would be safe but it was still so unreal to me. I went back and watched the news and i knew that we were at war now and I wondered what it would mean for my family. At the end of the day I walked back down the hill to get my children from school but this time I had to show my military I.D to locked and loaded U.S Soldiers before I could pick them up and I knew then that our world had changed that day.

Rain, Rain or Rain we are going on a picnic

My husband was home for four days this weekend and it was wonderful. We packed a lot in during these four days from making our own laundry soap to hiking in the rain.

The laundry soap was fun to make and very very simple, although my husband and my nine year old took over the making of it. I enjoyed the process very much and my nine year old Sarah has been doing laundry non stop which isn't a bad thing :)  .

We were going to go on a picnic to Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain Ga, but we ended up not packing any food and going only to find out that they were having a special event (Hot Air Balloons) so the price of admission was half price for military and not free as usual, so we nixed that plan and promised Sarah we would go on a picnic the next day. So we just drove around the area took in the sites and talked.

The next day I fried pork chops, made Cole slaw and potato salad and off we went with Sarah and our 18 year old Son to Providence Canyon in Lumpkin Ga for a picnic and a hike as Tropical Storm Lee was making it's way through our area...we weren't letting a little rain stop our family picnic!!!

So off we went to Providence Canyon also known as "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon" where the gullies can be as steep as 150 feet and all this is due from poor farming practices in the 1800's to hike the three mile trail and have our picnic...I didn't mention I couldn't find my shoes and ended up wearing a pair of broken sandals. We finished our lunch and started our hike to the canyon floor. Our son left us behind in no time so it was just me, my husband and Sarah. The rain was holding off pretty good but the trail had spots of slick wet red Georgia clay and it was very amusing for my family to watch me navigate with no traction on my soles but although I was in the wrong shoes I stayed on my own two feet the whole way down and the whole way back up the other side. But before the three plus miles was up the clouds opened and it started pouring. It was raining hard and now my sandals wouldn't stay on my feet so i ended up walking back to the car barefooted trying to navigate between the pine cones and the sweet gum and the fire weed which I did.
 I can honestly say I enjoyed playing in the rain with my family it will remain a favorite memory for me.

The next day we went to the labor day fair and again the weather was nasty but we made a promise to Sarah we would at least go see what was happening...not much. Not a lot of people and not a lot of anything going on. So we walked around let Sarah enter to win an ipod shuffle for a dollar a ticket went and bought some lemonade and then looked at some dinosaur bones and what nots in the court house museum and then the tornado sirens went off....so we along with everyone else scrambled into the old courthouse and waited it out. Sarah was so scared she didn't notice when the lady walked up to her dad and handed him a blue ipod shuffle that she had won. The tornado touched down some place not to far down the road and we finally got out of there and Sarah was a very happy girl to be going home the winner of a new ipod.