The mimosa trees are starting to bloom…. …or so I thought… I have loved these pretty trees since I was a kid in southeastern Virginia…this one is blooming right up the street. I’ll take my iPhone along on runs so I can listen to tunes, but about once a week I get distracted so much … Read more
This week’s Friday Fill-In! Enjoy! 1. What is one of the things you always do special when your husband returns from a deployment? submitted by Keep Calm and Soldier On I’m not sure if I can use “always” in these answers, since my husband has only ever had two deployments to come home from…and I’ve … Read more
Folks find it strange that I travel to and from my Reserve duty in uniform. In this week’s case, I didn’t have an official appointment as soon as I landed; I didn’t have to report to duty as soon as I landed either. Nonetheless, I have found it beneficial in so many ways. 1.) Air … Read more
This is what happens when I rent from Avis for the first time in over 10 years! Greetings from yet another soon-to-be-fun-filled week of Reserve duty 🙂 Today has to have been the best flying experience I’ve had in a very long time. Perhaps since the trip TO Disneyworld in late 2009. 0.) I fly … Read more
Isn’t he cute???? So here’s our first watermelon. There are two of them growing right now. This thing is TINY! We’re talking about the size of my thumbnail…see how big the blades of grass look? Our garden is doing well, although the lack of rain has made it a struggle. Yesterday afternoon and overnight last … Read more
*Yes, this is one of the much-less-creative blog post titles. I have an awesome watch. I’ve had this watch since my college graduation in 1995. It was a gift from my parents…16 years ago this week. Yep, that’s a now-extinct Nittany Lion statue in the middle of the dial. Best. Graduation. Gift. Ever! Being that it’s … Read more
We moved here in November, and by then most of the growing season was over. So we’ve been greeted with all sorts of surprises over the past several weeks. I’ve been taking lots of pictures of the pretty flowers blooming around here. Unfortunately, these past few days all my photography has been with my iPhone … Read more
Hopefully the Moms reading this had a nice Mother’s Day. I enjoyed a nice day with my boys. I’ve cracked the code for happy kids: a trip to the beach! They were happy, I was happy watching (and catching a few waves with a Boogie Board!), all was well with the world. The boys each … Read more
When we were in South Dakota last May, the boys picked up branches to use as hiking sticks. There was ponderosa pine all over the place, and it wasn’t hard for the boys to find something in their sizes. The boys begged to bring home the sticks as “souvenirs” from their trip. How could I … Read more
You can say I tried. I think Jacob might have a future in long distance running…Timmy probably won’t. At a Mother’s Day function this past week, one of Timmy’s classmates’ Moms tipped me off to a 1-mile kids’ fun run in Navarre Beach last Saturday. That night I headed over to one of our local hangouts in … Read more