I should really create an ‘about’ page so that every time I want to talk about Colorado I don’t have to explain our history there. Colorado is home. Its home according to my drivers license, its our home according to the Marine Corps and its home in my heart.
Occassionally, when I have nothing better to [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, Grace in Small Things, Military Life, This Is My Life

Well, the momcation is over (isn’t that word terrible? It ranks up there with preggers. I HATE that word.) and I think today my brain is starting to function in the correct time zone again. I got home Tuesday night where I was greeted by an apprehensive Mackenzie, a bouquet-of-flowers-holding Nathan and PC.  My wonderful (seriously, [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, Iowa and Corn Make Me Happy, fancy backpack

Just scrolling through Facebook this morning I clicked on a few links. My friend Janelle suggested we watch this, our friend Liam posted an article about how Monsanto and their GMO soybeans are now, get this, getting choked out by weeds that are now resistant to their pesticide. (Background info: Monsanto has pretty much a [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, The Whole Wide World

I told you that camping is like my most favorite thing ever. Im not sure where this comes from. I never camped as a kid. Well, I did do girl scout day camp one summer. And we did rent an RV one summer when I was younger (actually we’ve done that twice and the second [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy

Here’s the short version: what do you do when you are at a crossroads in life. Two totally different paths, both with great pro’s and con’s, but you have to pick one or the other?
And forgive me in advance- I haven’t had time to proofread this. Children can’t be ignored any longer.
Lets start back at [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, Military Life, This Is My Life

Well. Here we are, home again. 24,817 is roughly the number of miles we have traveled in the last 50 days. The house looks like a bomb went off. No seriously. I’ve been gearing up for the last month or so thinking about how we need to live more simply and all the CRAP I [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, The Whole Wide World, This Is My Life, Travel