As Time Passes....



SO, here we are at nearly a month into Laurie's deployment.  We are hunkered down for the remainder - only 11 months now - but some days it's a bit hard.  Okay that's a lie....it's REALLY hard.  But we are in good company with hundreds of thousands of other military families and so I often stop what I am doing and thank God that I realize it's not just all about us.  The days have passed quickly for me - trying to keep busy with Kasey, and cleaning, and all the things there are to do here at home. The puppy is doing her best to be beautiful, but she is a puppy after all, and it's a darned good thing that she IS beautiful or she would be outside a great deal of the day.  The honor system isn't working real well yet (those beautiful brown eyes which say, "okay grandma, you can let me out now, and I'll be good the rest of the day" can be very deceptive),  but we'll get there.
I tell her that all the time just so she doesn't forget that her humans are the boss.  Yup. Sure we are.

Laurie is settled at her duty station and she likes where she is.  We finally got the correct address for her so hopefully the packages we sent to the first one will be forwarded to her from the base she was at in the beginning.  She usually skypes on the weekends so we get to see  her and I can give the okay that, yes, she looks good.  Tomorrow I am going shopping for her next package (s).  I try to pick up this and that every time I shop but still, it takes awhile to get a good package together.  We email occasionally but I let her take the lead on that since her internet time is limited right now and she does, after all, have Stephen to keep in touch with.

And so, as time passes, I realize that as a wife/mom/grandma/friend I do not have a job description.  It's whatever God/my family/those I love need me to be. 
Please, Lord....help me each moment of every day to be what YOU need me to be. And Lord, please bless our troops and every single person who loves them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!



To the best Army ever to be formed in the world, HAPPY 236th BIRTHDAY to our US ARMY. 

May God bless each and every soldier who has ever, or still does wear the uniform of a US Army Soldier.


Today is also flag day.  Our proud symbol of America - the STARS and STRIPES....adopted on June 14, 1777, by the Second Continental Congress.  Back then there were just 13 stars but she flew just as proudly as she does today.  

May God bless America and those who keep her free.