This weekend we went to Tokashiki island with our friends from the ‘hood. We’re a pretty close bunch, our three families. When you live this close together your house becomes my house and pretty soon you’re walking in without even knocking. Its good to have neighbors like that.
Tokashiki is part of the Keramas and is [...]

Filed under: Military Life

Evidently the ice cream scoops were limited edition. I have searched all the 100Y stores I can think of and I found 1. You know you’ve lived in the same place for a really really long time when the 100Y store starts cycling out items. The good news is I got lots of other fun [...]

Filed under: Military Life, the cement bungalow

I have every intention of boring you with the minutiae of my everyday life with daily posts but then someone has a stage 5 blowout, someone else needs a snack, and someone else needs the mold cleaned out of their dog bowl, someone just always needs something.
The Capt. has graced us with his presence again [...]

Filed under: Military Life, This Is My Life

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 [...]

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First off, I’d like to give a big Way To Go to my husband, the “guest poster” for putting up a link to our old blog. The one we decided to no longer use since it had our name on it. Sweetie, it sort of defeats the purpose when you put a link on this [...]

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

The cheapest tickets I can find ring in at $3993. Stellar deal, no? It would be less if the 3 month old didn’t rate her own seat but dude, I can. not. hold her that entire trip. I just can’t. Impossible. Also, that price does not include the cost of shipping a box of toys [...]

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First off– lets add to the proverbial resolution list: more blog posts. I asked PC if it was wordpress that has been my demise or the new family member. We voted: new family member. I keep thinking one of these days I’ll get back on my A-game, and well, we’re still waiting. I used to faithfully post [...]

Filed under: Military Life, This Is My Life

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 [...]

Filed under: Military Life