1) Having your husband get delayed! Again! PC keeps telling me all this is just circumstantial. Im wondering at what point you stop calling it “circumstances” and start calling it The Way It Is.
2) Being woken up at 11pm, 2am, and 6am by a little girl who just thinks its time to have girl talk, [...]

Filed under: Grace in Small Things

1) The honey orange latte at Starbucks. Sounds disgusting, tastes divine.
2) Knocking something off the shelf in the pantry and creating a cascade of falling food Nathan looks at me and gives me a sigh and says “aw….shit.” And I cant help but laugh, even though its not funny.
3) The fact that the General’s husband [...]

Filed under: Grace in Small Things

A lot of things changed when we decided to stay here for another 3 years. Plans had to be scraped, ideas changed and the house all of a sudden got way too small. I think most people who have lived over here would agree, a tour in Japan is really just like a 3 year [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life, its not just good-its just good enough, the cement bungalow

Im floating away in a sea of clutter. I *Seriously* cannot handle the toy clutter any longer. I dont know what to get rid of, but I see a flea market in our near future because its adding way too much stress to my life. Our house is way to damn small to have this [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life

I think it was last Thursday that I sort of hit a wall. My level of exhaustion has been climbing steadily night after night since PC left. Up until this point we’ve had Mackenzie in our room with us in a cradle. I liked having her next to the bed so I could easily see [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life, its not just good-its just good enough

This morning we had a tentative date to go see some Raptors. We ran some errands and decided to make a loop around the Futenma flight line to kill some time. Normally car rides are sort of relaxing because Mackenzie will sleep, Nathan will just watch out the window and I can just sort of [...]

Filed under: Nate the Great

Admittedly living overseas provides a lot of “ignorance is bliss.” I watch the news and hear about how many thousand jobs were lost in a day and see people that are stocking up on canned goods because they aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from. However, I certainly don’t have a real [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized

Since Mackenzie was born I was dreading PC being gone for the month of February. Honestly, I thought it might be the end of me and Im not sure why other than I know how hard some days can be being a single parent of one kid, I thought that two might just push me [...]

Filed under: Military Life

It never seems possible, with every milestone that is hit, that time can pass so quickly. I keep thinking my baby is still such a baby, and then I think about how we are really only 8 weeks away from starting solid food. 8 weeks away from sitting up. 8 weeks away from her being [...]

Filed under: McSassy

Sandy has taken another step downhill. And because you want to know, that new step is devouring her own feces. See: Line/Sand? We’ve crossed it and the night I had to wake up at midnight to first clean up the slurry pile of poop that was smeared all over the carpet as then come let [...]

Filed under: This Is My Life