August

I know its a day late but... HAPPY AUGUST everyone!! Wow, I was catching up on the weekends events in blog land when it hit me this could be the last full month we spend in this place. I have to admit I do love it here, yes it started out rough, but what did I expect. This is my first move; I went from living with my parents to moving 13 minutes away when I married KS and now we live 1200+ miles from our families. Even though I have been homesick here and there I love where I live now. I love being away and feeling more grown up. I don't have that sense of dependency I had when we lived back home. As crazy as it may sound I feel like a 25 year old who finally grew up, even though I have been married for seven and a half years with three kids. Who would have guessed some distance was exactly what I needed to boost my confidence and make me feel more adult. I don't rely on people like I did before, and to be honest I don't feel like I rely on anyone, I can get done whatever I need to get done on my own. I don't need someone looking over my shoulder making sure I am doing it right. It is very refreshing to feel this way, but don't get me wrong if something goes wrong or if I need anything Mom and Dad's phones are ringing instantly. No matter how grown up I may feel now I still know that no matter what I can always, and will always go to them whenever I need them and they will do whatever they can to set things right.

Anyways... that was not where I was going with this post today. August... wow. So much will happen within this next month and once September gets here things will really start to get crazy. This month will be full of vacation Bible school for the boys, swimming lessons, and spending as much time with friends as possible before everyone leaves following graduation in September. Not to mention I have already dug out my "moving folder" and my portable filing system. These two things that must be permanently attached to my body during the moving process. Plus school will be starting in just a couple of weeks so we have all the prep for that going on right now. Thank goodness I went ahead and enrolled them at the end of the school year last year so that is one thing I don't have to worry about, although I do have to get their school physicals done before they can start. I finally switch us over to Tricare Prime, we had been on Standard since KS started BCT and I just hadn't got around to switching us over yet, thankfully we haven't even used our insurance since we moved here. KS will have a week in the field playing Rambo with his friends, hopefully they will enjoy it, but with this heat I doubt it. They are going to be miserable. This month is going to fly by I just know it. Soon we will be celebrating our big birthday month, September, I cant believe I will have a 2 year old and a 7 year old very soon. September "should" also be filled with packing and moving... I hope. If we ever get orders... Gotta love the Army's hurry up and wait motto... or is that just the Army wives motto. Either way its the truth!

Day 10...

A picture of me from 10 years ago... how about 8 years ago?

Aside from very young kid pictures of me this was all I had on my computer. Its crazy looking back on this picture, my sisters were so young!! Now they are 18 & 16... man time flies!!

Update

Hello everyone!! I am still alive and doing really well! I have finally adjusted to Army wife life, aka a lot of silence and hoping for a break in the silence. I finally received all the info I needed to get my ID, it was wrong. So I had to fax my social and it is in the process of getting corrected. It could take a couple of weeks so I will be lucky if it is finished by the time I go to pick KS up. I want to give you all a big thank you! I can feel your prayers working in my life daily. My spirits have been so high since Thanksgiving (I got a 20min phone call, but more on that later). This is without a shadow of a doubt the life I was meant to live, and I am so excited to live it! I haven't received any letters yet but I know I have at least two on the way. Hopefully I have more than that coming!! Unfortunately I did not hear from him his past Sunday, but its okay no news is good news in my book. At least I know that if he doesn't call all is well and he is busy training to protect his country and family.

Thanksgiving was wonderful. The kids and I woke up and layed around watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade all morning and then the best thing happened, at 12:15 my phone rang. It was KS! We spent the next 20 minutes talking and catching up on everything that has been going on these past couple of weeks. I am thrilled to announce that he is really enjoying himself. He said the Victory Tower was "interesting" and coming from someone who is not all that keen on heights I was just glad that he didn't hate it. I know it will help him to overcome that fear and make him a stronger man. After his phone call the kids and I headed over to my grandparents for a wonderful meal. I can say this my family waits like a big dog waits on a little dog to eat. Everyone had already got their plates by the time the kids and I got there, but I didn't care. I told them I had better things to do than eat, I was talking to my hubby! They all agreed and then drilled me about how he was doing. They are all so happy that he is enjoying himself.

The kids have been out of school since Tuesday at noon so it was bittersweet taking them back to school today. I do miss them when they are away, but Cayleigh-Grace and I got to spend a wonderful morning with my parents going grocery shopping at Walmart. It isn't very often that I actually get to spend time with my parents minus my sisters or the boys so it was a wonderful treat. Plus Daddy bought steamed shrimp to snack on on the way home, yum!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving holiday!

Mom Still in Hospital

Well Mom is still in the hospital... She has had an elevated heart rate since she was admitted on Wednesday and they cannot seem to figure out why that is exactly. So they are holding her in the hospital and running some tests to try and get to the route of the problem. Dad made it back on Friday but she didn't want him just sitting at the hospital pacing so she sent him back home. She hasn't wanted anyone up their since that would just cause her to have more stress. She did tell me that her stomach is feeling a little bit better so that is some good news.

Mom Home Tomorrow

Just got off the phone with Mom. They are going to be keeping her one more night due to the infection that she had. Her appendix did not burst but there was a pretty bad infection, so I will be picking her up in the morning after I drop the boys off at school. Thank you for all of your prayers and please keep them coming!

Mom Surgery Update 2

So, Mom is not doing so good. She spiked a fever last night to the point where they had to bring in ice bags and place them throughout her body to get it to break. The doctor has not been in this morning to talk to her yet, but she did tell me she is in a lot of pain and is not getting around anywhere near as good as she was expecting. She does not want me to come up there at this point... and I am not liking that very much at all. I went ahead and called Dad and told him that he needs to come home and he is on the phone with her now so hopefully I will know something soon. I have a feeling she is down playing the severity of what happened. She hadn't even told Dad about the fever yet... and I fear that she has "Super Mom Syndrome" and doesn't want to admit how bad she is feeling... I am just praying she doesn't get an infection from all of this... I could tell how much pain she was in when I talked to her on the phone...

Mom Surgery Update

Mom made it out of surgery okay. She was able to call Dad last night and let him know she was doing okay. He is down south for work and could not come back up to be with her. I will be picking her up later today once she calls and lets me know exactly what is going on. I don't want to call her yet because I am too worried about waking her up, but knowing Mom she will probably be up pretty soon anyway. Unless the drugs have her that knocked out... Thank you for your concern and prayers. Now we just need to pray for a speedy recovery, and for my sisters to be considerate and NOT STRESS HER OUT!!! (Dixie...)

Please Pray!!

*update* She is in surgery now...

My mom just called me from the hospital ER. She has to have surgery tomorrow for appendicitis... I realize that this is a very common procedure but I would still appreciate any and all prayers you could send my Moms way. Thank you.

Lunch with Mom

My mom that is. Today was a big day for our sweet Cayleigh-Grace, she (and my mom) opened up her first savings account. Since Little Kiale was born my Mom has opened up a savings account for each of my kids within their first few months of life. This way they can have some "fun money" to buy their first car with when they turn 16, or whatever it is that they decide to do with it. I love that my Mom has done this for my kids. It will really help them out when they get older and I know that they will really appreciate it. She also buys them savings bonds for their birthdays and for Christmas. After we finished opening up her account we went to lunch in the food court at Shands, lunch was wonderful, and I always enjoy having some one on one (+1) time with my mom. As soon as I got there we went and showed off Cayleigh-Grace to all of Mom's coworkers since this was the first time I had brought her up there. It was so neat when one of her coworkers said that it was going to be a lunch with the "girls" normally that term is saved for referring to my sisters and I, but this time it was referring to three generations instead of just two. My mom, me, and my daughter. It is still so surreal to think that I have a daughter... I just love it!!