It has come earlier than we expected but it has come. Pinwheels has received notification he is leaving for deployment before the year is out. A few details are different this time: this time is longer and in a different country. One thing that is the same: looks like Pinwheels will miss Christmas. It’s not [...]
We had a great summer, a busy summer, but a great one.
June: We went a little crazy and bought a house. We signed the contract and 15 hours later we went on vacation. We spent nearly a week with Pinhweels’ side of the family including two days on a lake in a houseboat. We had [...]
I have been keeping Pinwheels to myself. He arrived home safely almost a month ago now and I have been mean and not shared his return with you. He arrived home a day late and rested so we had a great time taking him to lunch. We spent a few days just being a family [...]
Pinwheels has less than 3 weeks to go in the desert. 4 months is a long time and it’s almost over. Yay!
Peanut asked me every day for a week after Christmas if we were getting Daddy the following day. We finally made paper chains so we can keep track of the days [...]
Yesterday I moved our artificial Christmas tree from one room of the house to another room. I’m sure you’re wondering why I still have my Christmas tree up unless you know Pinwheels is not here. We are keeping our tree up so Pinwheels can see it when he gets home. Plus, his gifts are stacked [...]
Or so it seems anyway. Of course, there is the usual shopping for Christmas gifts which is actually moving at a smooth pace. It would just be nice if I still had more than 10 days to finish.
And then there is the shopping where if you don’t buy some clothes you will be [...]
It is nasty outside. We’ve had sleeting rain for most of the day here in the St. Louis area and it’s supposed to keep going for most of the night. I do believe it is to turn into snow at some point but until then it is dangerous to be outside. The weather channel said [...]
Sorry for the nonexistent posting. You know it’s bad when your deployed spouse is blogging intermittently and it’s more blogging than you do. So, I will try to do better.
The last 2 weeks we have been sick. The kids got sick first and then I got sick. Well, I started to [...]
In June the kids and I traveled to Kansas for my nephew’s first birthday. The invitation read like this:
You’re invited to a sheep party
In honor of J’s favorite word
(It’s what a sheep says)
In case you haven’t heard
Please come to J’s
1st Birthday Baaaaaash!!
Grazing begins @5pm on June *
At the H pasture
Wool hope to see you [...]
Heard at our house yesterday after another discussion where Flash was right and Mommy was wrong (according to Flash).
Mommy: Nothing I say is ever right with you.
Flash: (patting my arm and with a sweet voice) But I still love you.
Pinwheels left for his deployment on Monday morning. The kids enjoyed the ride on the train to the airport and they had fun looking at the airplanes but they don’t understand the complexity or dangers or what their dad is going to do. They just know he’s going to the desert to go [...]
Actually, Pinwheels found it and killed it. “It” was a cricket. It had to go. And it had to go before bed. The reason? It kept me up most of the night last night. Every time I would start to relax and doze off it would start chirping, loudly. [...]
Pinwheels bought a new grill today. It’s a charcoal grill with a firebox on the end for smoking. He and my brother-in-law pulled out the instructions and all the pieces. The first thing the instructions tell you to do?
Get a helper.
It went on to say the grill was heavy which is why [...]
Thought you all might be interested to know we have survived our 3 day trip from Guam to Illinois. We stopped in Hawaii for 48 hours and had a 2 hour delay in Houston and finally arrived in St. Louis on Friday, March 10th. We were met by my parents, grandmother and Pinwheels’ sponsor. Hugs [...]
Moving is an integral part of being in the military. Sometimes you get an ideal assignment, sometimes you just go where they send you. Last week one of our options for next spring became Aviano, Italy. Needless to say, we were stunned. We didn’t know what to think. Having back-to-back [...]
Some of you have been waiting patiently all summer for Pinwheels’ return. It has finally happened and I didn’t tell you. Shame on me. He got home last weekend although with a lot of drama.
As a plane tried to land at Guam international airport, it was realized too late that the nose [...]
We walked out to the car for swim lessons on Wednesday morning and found a sticky messs. Someone had thought it would be fun to smash an egg down the side of Pinwheels’ car. Yucky, ew, gross. We didn’t have time to worry about it so we went ahead and went to [...]
Hmm, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? How about a quick recap?
1. School ended on May 24th, so we’ve had to adjust not only to Pinwheels leaving, but to having both kids home all day, every day.
2. My parents came for 10 days and went home this week. We had a lot [...]
This morning we took Pinwheels to the airport. The kids thought it was a big adventure, but us grown-ups knew the what it really meant. Three months without daddy. And three months for daddy without two little people climbing all over him, driving him nuts, making him smile, and three months for [...]
Today each one of us had an accomplishment of some nature.
Peanut is usually attached to my neck and body when we go swimming, but today he actually became comfortable in his life vest and had quite a ball floating around the pool by himself. “Me do it, mommy,” or “drop me (as in let [...]
We found out yesterday Pinwheels will be spending three months this summer in New Jersey for a class. We were hoping he could take the class next spring on the way to our next base, but things change. I knew he would get picked. He impressed some semi-important people out here in [...]
Pinwheels is in Alaska for a conference and the much awaited awards ceremony regarding his award from his squadron. Can you imagine Alaska in February? It’s been so hot here I almost evny him. He left before the sun got up on Monday and is to return Monday evening of next week. [...]
Tomorrow I will update you all on the goings on in the Pinwheels household: Pinwheels being out of town, the mom vs. kids bedtime battle, the war on clutter, school, my sitemeter countdown, etc.
I know, I know. You just can’t wait.
Months ago I painted my guest room and you waited. Months ago I promised to clean up my guest room and you waited. Well, wait no more! My guest room isn’t perfect, but it is coming along nicely and I wanted to share with you my progress and success. I still [...]
Guess what? I finally finished one of the curtains for my guest room. With all the other stuff I do and the fact my sewing machine gave me fits, it took me awhile to get it all completed. But it’s done, and now, you get to see it. This picture is [...]
I ran out of Cascade for my dishwasher! Okay. Breathe in, breathe out. It will be okay. The commissary will be open tomorrow.
Thank goodness.
1. Don’t buy a lot of Christmas wrapping paper on sale or you will be looking at that paper for MANY years to come.
Between my regular life, Thanksgiving, and Sims Deluxe, I have been busy the last week, so I will do a small summary of my activities so as not to bore you.
Tuesday – I cooked the first of the three turkeys I had in my refrigerator. Caltechgirl was right. My kitchen smelled fabulous. [...]
Anybody else getting ready to go through your kids’ toys before Christmas? I have got to bless other little kids with some of our toys before we get more in December. I told VW part of the reason my house is messy is because the kids have a lot of toys. I [...]
For those of you who are waiting on pictures of my guest room, I haven’t forgotten you. I’m trying to get a little bit of decorating done as I organize so it’s taking me a while. I’m also a procrastinator so that doesn’t help either. I finished decorating my blue wall and [...]