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.

Seven Army Values

I am an Army Wife. I have spent the past 19 years loving a man who wears ACU's and Army Boots. I have spent 19 years giving encouragement and being a sounding board to a man that lives the 7 Army values. I know my Soldier and I know his values and his motivations, I know how he feels about the men and women that he leads...his Soldiers. I know what he expects out of them. I know he wants to give the Army and America... Soldiers who will be leaders, who will lead by example, who have good judgment and will work their tails off when no one is looking, Soldiers that live and breath the 7 Army values.
Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
integrity
personal Courage

If you can learn to live by those values you will be a leader that we can be proud of.

TGIF

It's TGIF people! And my husband is off today, yep a three day weekend. Three days of finding fun family stuff to do...but not for us. We don't have the money for him to come home this weekend, so it's just gonna be another weekend without him home. Another weekend of no fab family memories to make, another weekend with the phone in place of my husband. These are the not so wonderful times, the lonely times, the bored out of my mind times. But I'll just Army Wife UP and take it one minute, one day, one night at a time like I always do.

But before we get all sad and crying in our soup let me just ask you a favor. Have fun with your spouse this weekend. Go make some fabulous memories with your family. Instead of being angry that they're in your way, rejoice and be glad in it! Tell them you love them and give out plenty of hugs and kisses and have I told you how sexy you are latelys. Just please don't waste your weekend on fighting and hating! OKAY!!!!

Next weekend will be our weekend...and I can promise you this, I'm gonna let him know how much he's loved and missed and we're gonna make some Fab family memories.

We need some orbit gum over here pronto!

AHHHHH! I hate, loath, absolutely without a doubt detest certain cuss words! Now don't get me wrong I am by no means a saint nor a prudish kind of girl (just one look into my head would make one certain of that fact) and if I'm made angry enough I can let them fly with the best of you. But with that being said there are some dirty of the dirty words that make me feel unclean upon hearing or seeing them in written form.

And they seem to run rampant with no constraints these days. They can be found being slung around in restaurants, in schools, at games on social networking sites and it doesn't even seem to care if a lady or a child is present, not these days because no one seems to care any more.

Now what I like to call the little cuss words don't bother me, it's just those big nasty vulgar ones and I wish people would look around them and see what company they are in or think about who may be reading their written words before slinging them around like they just don't care.

WHY BRIDEZILLA???

OK so I was watching that infamous television show "BRIDEZILLAS" last night and I spent the whole time wondering what has happened to Women....and why aren't the men running for their lives?
These women on this show are beyond vulgar, they would put a Sailor to shame with their lewdness and crassness. And why aren't there Grooms running for the hills? Do they think this is going to get better? I just want to scream at the T.V and ask these men is this who you want raising your children? Is this the kind of women who is going to bring honor to you and your family? Is this the kind of women who is going to guard and protect your heart?
 I know your reading this and thinking I'm old fashioned, and that is okay cause the older I get the more I think I get it. It really is okay to be respectful and have values. Women it is okay to be feminine. Women it is a good thing to show your husband that he is respected and honored, it doesn't make him more superior then you, but it does make you more valuable to him and to your family.
I often find myself looking at other wives and I'm thinking one of two things, either that man is very blessed to have this women in his life or I feel sorry for him for having to deal with a wife like that. And you know if I'm thinking it I'm probably not alone.
   I wish I knew why women seem to act more harsh these days and I'm guilty as well, but I wish we would realize that it is beautiful to be a women, that being more gentle in our speech and conduct  does not mean we are weak. That honoring our husbands does not mean we are less then them but that we are equals  and that we will be there to guard their hearts and help them walk through this life as a helper and a blessing.