I hope everyone is enjoying their day with family, friends and a whole lotta yummy food. Everyone in these parts made a nice haul which included new space shuttles, a new bike, a jewelry box, Coach purse, pizza grill, photography classes and a new waffle maker (collectively). 
This is the first year since we’ve been married [...]

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I read once a long time ago that one of the 10 ten rules of blogging is to cuss like a sailor. Just so you know, whatever profanity I use on here is generally limited to here. I’ll admit that B.S. is thrown around somewhat frequently but I’m not one to drop the F bomb [...]

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This is how the conversation went. I should preface it with the fact that Nathan got his first pair of scissors about 2 months ago and at first was only allowed to use them supervised. Once I felt that he wasn’t going to use them to cut his fingers off I left him to his [...]

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Today we had to drop off some of our really good friends at the airport and say goodbye. As I was crying on the car ride home I was trying to decide if this was the worst part of military life or if the whole husband-gone-a-lot-possibly-in-a-war-zone is. Im going to say the latter is worse [...]

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Dear Nathan,
You always keep me laughing with the things you come up with. I cant help but smile when you trip over your words a bit trying to request graham crackers and milk. I try and make sure we do something special- just you and me several times a week. Usually this revolves around crafts [...]

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Some recent shots (with much to be desired)
 

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There’s a certain yin and yang that goes with working at the thrift store. My job itself is wonderful; just the right number of hours, total flexibility. The perk of working there is having first pick at everything that comes in. I’m not ashamed to say that with the exception of a (very) few items, [...]

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So….yeah. Um, as it turns out Sandy isn’t going to be put to sleep. First of all- thank you all for your heartfelt comments. I’ll remember them when the big day finally arrives. PC took her to the vet yesterday where all of her ailments got “cured.” She has a bladder infection which is supposedly [...]

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We’ve made an appointment to have Sandy put to sleep. Its sort of hard to believe I just wrote that. We’ve sort of been dancing around the issue for weeks. I won’t lie, I don’t feel like Im loosing my best friend, but even this weekend I got all teary eyed thinking about what was [...]

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