06 September 2010
Blogging
I have completely been slacking on my blogging but I have good reasoning. We are moving out of our apartment and into our town home on Thursday and I have so much to get done and so much that I have been doing I haven't had time to sit down. So once things settle down I shall get back to my wonderful blog!!!!
02 September 2010
30 Days of Me: Day 2
When I started this blog Jack's ship had been in "River City" and had no communication for about 3 weeks. Well since I couldn't email him I decided to start blogging. At that time things weren't going the best and I was basically living day by day. So I decided to name my blog "Taking things one day at a time." I think it has been very suitable for my blog and I continue to do just that. Take things one day at a time. No point in living in the future or in the past. We must all learn to live today or we will miss out on the good things in life.
So until tomorrow I'm just "Taking things one day at a time."
So until tomorrow I'm just "Taking things one day at a time."
01 September 2010
30 Days of Me: Day 1
I don't take pictures of myself very often so this is the most recent and its over 2 months old... I'll have to start taking more pics lol.15 Interesting Facts.
1. I am always 5 mins late for everything, I can leave the house a hour early and still be late.
2. I am a family girl and love being around and with my family. They are my back bone and I would do anything for my them.
3. I am a natural blonde but refuse to keep my hair blonde. I keep my hair dark and love the way I look with dark hair.
4. I absolutely love any type of crime shows... Mainly "Criminal Minds" and "NCIS". I can watch the same episode 5 times and still enjoy every minute of it.
5. I love being a Navy Wife even though most days are much harder then most peoples. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
6. I'm so scared of death that if I think about it to much I get depressed and cant sleep or eat for hours sometimes a couple of days... its really bad.
7. I can hold a grudge forever and will treat u like shit if u back stab me, but forgive people way to easily after they have betrayed and used me...
8. When I talk to people I only look at one eye... if I try and look at both my vision gets blurry and I cant see anything.
9. I'm obsessed with cereal, I honestly eat at least 3 bowls a day!!
10. I love McDonald's Sweet Tea but have had to give it up due to being prego... I make decaf at home but its just not the same.
11. I cant swim alone, I'm terrified of drowning even though I'm a perfectly good swimmer and do fine.
12. I CANNOT whistle. I have tried everything and cannot do it. Its embarrassing!!
13.I used to hate the color purple but it has grown on me since I had Abbie.
14. I'm terrified of Clowns.
15.I have had 3 knee surgery's and the problem still isn't fixed
Til next time I'm just "Taking things one day at a time."
30 days of me!
So at first I wasn't going to do this since there are a couple days where I have to post a picture of myself with my friends and since I haven't made any friends in WA yet that will be kinda hard. So I will either post really old pictures of just change the topic for the day. So here goes to 30 days of blogging about myself. Thanks for the idea Lelia.
Here are the daily prompts for 30 days of me:
day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
day 2- the meaning behind you blog name
day 3- a picture of you and your friends
day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
day 5- a picture of somewhere youve been to
day 6- favorite super hero and why
day 7- a picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
day 8- short term goals for this month and why
day 9- something youre proud of in the past few days
day 10- songs you listen to when you are happy, sad, bored, hyped, mad
day 11- another picture of you and your friends
day 12- how you found out about blogger and why you have one
day 13- a letter to someone who has hurt you recently
day 14- a picture of you and your family
day 15- put you ipod on shuffle: first 10 songs that play
day 16- another picture of yourself
day 17- someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
day 18- plans/dreams/goals you have
day 19- nicknames you have and why you have them
day 20- someone you see yourself marrying or being with in the future
day 21- a picture of something that makes you happy
day 22- what makes you different from everyone else
day 23- something you crave for a lot
day 24- a letter to your parents
day 25- what I would find in your bag
day 26- what do you think about your friends
day 27- why are you doing this 30 day challenge
day 28- a picture of you from last year and now, how have you changed since then?
day 29- in this past month, what have you learned
day 30- you favorite song
In this crazy place we are just "Taking things one day at a time."
Here are the daily prompts for 30 days of me:
day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
day 2- the meaning behind you blog name
day 3- a picture of you and your friends
day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
day 5- a picture of somewhere youve been to
day 6- favorite super hero and why
day 7- a picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
day 8- short term goals for this month and why
day 9- something youre proud of in the past few days
day 10- songs you listen to when you are happy, sad, bored, hyped, mad
day 11- another picture of you and your friends
day 12- how you found out about blogger and why you have one
day 13- a letter to someone who has hurt you recently
day 14- a picture of you and your family
day 15- put you ipod on shuffle: first 10 songs that play
day 16- another picture of yourself
day 17- someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
day 18- plans/dreams/goals you have
day 19- nicknames you have and why you have them
day 20- someone you see yourself marrying or being with in the future
day 21- a picture of something that makes you happy
day 22- what makes you different from everyone else
day 23- something you crave for a lot
day 24- a letter to your parents
day 25- what I would find in your bag
day 26- what do you think about your friends
day 27- why are you doing this 30 day challenge
day 28- a picture of you from last year and now, how have you changed since then?
day 29- in this past month, what have you learned
day 30- you favorite song
In this crazy place we are just "Taking things one day at a time."
24 August 2010
6 months later and I decided to blog again!
WOW... it has been 6 long months since I posted a blog. It doesn't seem real that 6 months ago I was living in Illinois, Jack was deployed, Abbie was only 20months old, I was NOT prego, I was planning a wedding, and spending every minute possible with my family.
Now 6 great months later I am living in Washington, Jack has come home from a deployment and then 2 months of schooling, Abbie is now 25 1/2 months old, I AM prego, we already had our wedding and it was wonderful, and I haven't seen my family in over a month!!
So a little update.
February and March is all pretty much a blur since it was so long ago and nothing was really going on.
April was a whole different story though. Lets see at the beginning of April I had my bridal shower on the Saturday before Easter and then my whole family celebrated Easter together that Sunday. The next weekend was my 3 year anniversary, I spent it alone since Jack was still deployed at this point. I flew to FL on the 14Th and spent some time with my friend Lelia and her amazing daughter Alyssa. We went to the candlelight vigil that night and then went back to her house to await our sailors return the next day. April 15Th the day I had waited for, for 6 months and 10 days. It was an amazing day. I got my sailor and Abbie got her daddy back!! The only good part about any deployment the homecoming!!! We said goodbye to our friends got everything we needed and headed to Illinois that night. We stopped at a hotel about 6 hours outside of FL. We woke up the next morning and hit the road again. We got back to IL on Friday the 16th sometime in the afternoon.
April 17th- My bachelorette and Jacks bachelor party. Since Jack's family wasn't able to make it to IL the week before the wedding my family gave him a bachelor party. Thankfully they went out to my Uncle's Cabin and just got really drunk NO strippers!! I had my bachelorette party at my Aunt's house and it was MUCH better than going to the bars since I had to take 12 shots due to a game we played and I got the answers wrong. That would have been a very expensive bar tab lol. All in all it was a great night and I know I enjoyed myself and of the pictures I saw Jack enjoyed himself too.
1 week til the wedding day and everything was pretty much taken care of the girls all had their dresses and the guys were all fitted. So Friday comes along we have our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner we finish decorating the hall and then I go to my Aunts house to stay the night so Jack and we don't see each other til I walk down the isle. YES we are already married but I was doing this as traditional as possible. The wedding was amazing, we had a great time at the reception everyone had a great time and it was so nice to know that we finally after 3 years 3 deployments and already having 1 child were able to have our dream wedding.
Well not much really happened after that we spent 3 days in Chicago and then heading back to FL for 1 day so Jack could get the rest of his stuff before heading to VA for a 2 month school. I hated it because he was just gone for over 6 months and then he had to be gone for another 2 months.
Now we are into May... Good Ole May. Not much really happened. I spent a week in VA with Jack and Abbie. We stayed at my friend Chelsea and Zakk's house. Zakk was underway while we were there but I was able to see him on Friday the 7th when he got home and before Jack, Abbie and I left their house to get a hotel since Abbie and I were leaving the next day to be home with family for Mothers Day. Well lets just say I wish we wouldn't have gotten that hotel room because I woke up to a very very sad and life changing text. My friend Zakk had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Words can't express how I felt that day. Zakk left behind his wife and their 16month old son. He was only 20 years old and had his whole life ahead of him. I did not take the death well at all, I had nightmares for a while and even dreams where he came back and tried to tell me about life after death but I always woke up before I got an answer... Go figure lol. I was not able to make his funeral since it was in VA and I had already bought my plane ticket to go back down there for Memorial Day weekend. His death to this day still gets to me but I know he is in heaven watching down on all those that he loved and cared about. He was a great man and is missed dearly. RIP Zakk Metzner 11/8/89-5/7/10 Gone but NOT forgotten.
May did not start our good but it did get better later on in the month. I had 2 of my wisdom teeth taken out and made 2 trips to VA. One was planned the other was a spur of the moment I really miss my husband trip. Well it was Memorial Day and it was time for our Honeymoon. We had an amazing trip planned out... ALL did not go as planned though.
Here was the plan. I flew in on Thursday the 27th, we were going to the Statue Of Liberty and Ellis Island on Friday. Get a hotel 60 miles outside of DC that night. Saturday and Sunday go to Washington, DC. Monday go to Bush Gardens and Tuesday I fly home.
Well here is what happened. I got in on Thursday like planned, we went to NY on Friday and did everything planned on Friday SO far so good... Well we are on our way to the hotel (which is a 6 hour drive by the way) well lets just say we never got there. Jack some home hit a curb trying to avoid hitting a car ( I was asleep) and bent the rim of the tire so bad it was almost undriveable. So we find a Pep boys about 15mins down the road and figure we will just get the rim bent back out and get a new tire no problem maybe 2 hours worth of labor and we would be on our way again... WRONG. The tire was not able to be bent back and NOWHERE had the size rim we needed for the car. We were stuck in New Jersey at 5pm... we waited and waited and waited for someone to have a rim and no one did. It was Friday night during Memorial Day weekend. Worst weekend possible to have something go wrong. Well since the rim was so bad and undriveable we had no vehicle and no hotel so we decide to go for a walk and try to find a hotel at 9pm... we finally found one 2 miles away from Pep boys but they are all booked so we ask where the next one might be and then send us 2 blocks away from Pep boys... Wish we would have known about that one first lol. It was a long night and I was devastated. I just wanted one weekend where it was just Jack and I for everything to go right... NOT going to happen. So Saturday morning still no luck so they finally get the rim to where it will drive but not for long. Just long enough to find somewhere else that might be able to fix the tire. So we drive about 20mins and need gas so we stop and ask if there were any junk yards around. We are desperate at this point. Luckily there was and they had a rim... So 200 dollars later we have a new tire a new rim and an oil change YAY us. I was so upset I just wanted to go back to the barracks and not even go to DC but Jack convinced me to go and I am glad we did. I wish we would have spent both days there like we planned but I saw almost everything I wanted to in the amount of time we were there. We made it to Bush Gardens on Sunday and had a great time. Monday we went Go-karting and just spent the day hanging out together. It was a nice honeymoon despite the little mishaps here and there. That was May for me... DEF not boring lol.
June... what can I remember about June. Not much really other than I had my other 2 wisdom teeth pulled out and then made another surprise trip to VA but this time I stayed for almost 2 weeks. We were able to spend Fathers Day with Jack which was nice. We hung out with some friends and just waited for Jack to get out of school. Well he had to get out of school earlier then planned because my Step Dad's father had passed away and we needed to get home for the funeral. So he was able to get out of school 5 days early. We left on Thursday and made it home Friday for the wake. The funeral was Saturday.
We had our family reunion Sunday which was a great time. It was the 1st time Jack had ever gone to one so it was nice. The rest of June was pretty much just spending time with the family hanging out enjoying everyday.
July oh July were you a busy month. Well the 1st was Abbie's 2nd Birthday and it was such a great day. Daddy had to go help my Step Dad for a little bit so it was Mommy and Abbie all day. We hung out spent time together, I did her hair we baked a bunch of little cakes, and then got ready to go to Chuck E. Cheese's we had a great time. It was Mommy, Daddy, Abbie, Alex, Lily, Aunt Cheryl, and Grandma Pat. We played games ate some pizza and cupcakes and opened presents. Abbie loved all her nice presents and had a blast. It was such a great day for her. The weekend was fun we went to my Uncle's Cabin with my Grandma on Saturday and then out to my Mom's on Sunday for the 4th. We went out on their boat and watch the fireworks on the water. It was a great Holiday for all of us. That Monday Jack and I had to leave to get to FL so we could get all of our stuff from storage packed and loaded with the movers to get us ready for WA. We got there on the 6th took care of some stuff and then met up with Jack's Dad and Step Mom who were in FL for a job (truck driver). So we spent the night with them and had a great time. We met with the movers the next day got all of that taken care of and then went back to the hotel room and just relaxed and spent some time together. Thursday we had some stuff to do at PSD, the bank, and the post office so we did all that and then went to Lelia's house that night for dinner. It was a very nice time and a great meal. We said our sad goodbye's and were headed back to the hotel. We packed the car and went to bed. Got up the next morning and headed for IL. YES we traveled A LOT over the last 6 months lol. So we make it to Illinois and it is time for Abbie's birthday party on Saturday the 10th. Our whole family is there the kids are there and it was an amazing time and just the party we needed before the move so far away. The week went by pretty fast which was very sad for me. I had lunch with my Aunt that Tuesday and now anytime I go to Olive Garden I cry lol. Thanks Aunt Cheryl. I spent a lot of time at my moms which was really nice and Abbie got to spend a lot of time with them which I know they all loved. Friday came along and it was time to go... It was a very sad and hard day for me... I am a family person and would give anything for my family. I hate that we are so far away but sometimes you must spread your wings and make a life of your own. I will be going home next July and can not wait. The drive up here was not to bad at all. We left Friday at 3pm and got to WA by Sunday at 8:30pm. We even stopped and did some sightseeing along the way.
We moved into our apt on the 19th and found out were expecting our 2nd baby on the 20th. I knew something was wrong when I couldn't eat Chinese food and my pants felt a little tighter than normal. We were going to wait til we had a doctors apt to tell anyone about the pregnancy but we decided to share our great news and tell the world on Friday!!! The rest of July was mainly just unpacking and settling in.
August has been pretty boring as well... Nothing really exciting yet. Jack had his 23rd Birthday on the 17th... he is getting old lol. I'm right behind him though. I will be 9 weeks pregnant tomorrow and just found out that my first apt wont be until September 13th at 1pm. I will be 11.5 weeks. To me that is INSANE. I guess I cant complain. My friend Rachael made a good point at least the sonogram will show a baby and not a sea monkey! :)
Well that is the last 6months wrapped up into a nut shell. I'm sure more happened but most people will make it to the end of April and stop reading. That is okay with me. I just felt like finally blogging since it had been way over due.
Until next time, I'm just "Taking things one day at a time".
Now 6 great months later I am living in Washington, Jack has come home from a deployment and then 2 months of schooling, Abbie is now 25 1/2 months old, I AM prego, we already had our wedding and it was wonderful, and I haven't seen my family in over a month!!
So a little update.
February and March is all pretty much a blur since it was so long ago and nothing was really going on.
April was a whole different story though. Lets see at the beginning of April I had my bridal shower on the Saturday before Easter and then my whole family celebrated Easter together that Sunday. The next weekend was my 3 year anniversary, I spent it alone since Jack was still deployed at this point. I flew to FL on the 14Th and spent some time with my friend Lelia and her amazing daughter Alyssa. We went to the candlelight vigil that night and then went back to her house to await our sailors return the next day. April 15Th the day I had waited for, for 6 months and 10 days. It was an amazing day. I got my sailor and Abbie got her daddy back!! The only good part about any deployment the homecoming!!! We said goodbye to our friends got everything we needed and headed to Illinois that night. We stopped at a hotel about 6 hours outside of FL. We woke up the next morning and hit the road again. We got back to IL on Friday the 16th sometime in the afternoon.
April 17th- My bachelorette and Jacks bachelor party. Since Jack's family wasn't able to make it to IL the week before the wedding my family gave him a bachelor party. Thankfully they went out to my Uncle's Cabin and just got really drunk NO strippers!! I had my bachelorette party at my Aunt's house and it was MUCH better than going to the bars since I had to take 12 shots due to a game we played and I got the answers wrong. That would have been a very expensive bar tab lol. All in all it was a great night and I know I enjoyed myself and of the pictures I saw Jack enjoyed himself too.
1 week til the wedding day and everything was pretty much taken care of the girls all had their dresses and the guys were all fitted. So Friday comes along we have our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner we finish decorating the hall and then I go to my Aunts house to stay the night so Jack and we don't see each other til I walk down the isle. YES we are already married but I was doing this as traditional as possible. The wedding was amazing, we had a great time at the reception everyone had a great time and it was so nice to know that we finally after 3 years 3 deployments and already having 1 child were able to have our dream wedding.
Well not much really happened after that we spent 3 days in Chicago and then heading back to FL for 1 day so Jack could get the rest of his stuff before heading to VA for a 2 month school. I hated it because he was just gone for over 6 months and then he had to be gone for another 2 months.
Now we are into May... Good Ole May. Not much really happened. I spent a week in VA with Jack and Abbie. We stayed at my friend Chelsea and Zakk's house. Zakk was underway while we were there but I was able to see him on Friday the 7th when he got home and before Jack, Abbie and I left their house to get a hotel since Abbie and I were leaving the next day to be home with family for Mothers Day. Well lets just say I wish we wouldn't have gotten that hotel room because I woke up to a very very sad and life changing text. My friend Zakk had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Words can't express how I felt that day. Zakk left behind his wife and their 16month old son. He was only 20 years old and had his whole life ahead of him. I did not take the death well at all, I had nightmares for a while and even dreams where he came back and tried to tell me about life after death but I always woke up before I got an answer... Go figure lol. I was not able to make his funeral since it was in VA and I had already bought my plane ticket to go back down there for Memorial Day weekend. His death to this day still gets to me but I know he is in heaven watching down on all those that he loved and cared about. He was a great man and is missed dearly. RIP Zakk Metzner 11/8/89-5/7/10 Gone but NOT forgotten.
May did not start our good but it did get better later on in the month. I had 2 of my wisdom teeth taken out and made 2 trips to VA. One was planned the other was a spur of the moment I really miss my husband trip. Well it was Memorial Day and it was time for our Honeymoon. We had an amazing trip planned out... ALL did not go as planned though.
Here was the plan. I flew in on Thursday the 27th, we were going to the Statue Of Liberty and Ellis Island on Friday. Get a hotel 60 miles outside of DC that night. Saturday and Sunday go to Washington, DC. Monday go to Bush Gardens and Tuesday I fly home.
Well here is what happened. I got in on Thursday like planned, we went to NY on Friday and did everything planned on Friday SO far so good... Well we are on our way to the hotel (which is a 6 hour drive by the way) well lets just say we never got there. Jack some home hit a curb trying to avoid hitting a car ( I was asleep) and bent the rim of the tire so bad it was almost undriveable. So we find a Pep boys about 15mins down the road and figure we will just get the rim bent back out and get a new tire no problem maybe 2 hours worth of labor and we would be on our way again... WRONG. The tire was not able to be bent back and NOWHERE had the size rim we needed for the car. We were stuck in New Jersey at 5pm... we waited and waited and waited for someone to have a rim and no one did. It was Friday night during Memorial Day weekend. Worst weekend possible to have something go wrong. Well since the rim was so bad and undriveable we had no vehicle and no hotel so we decide to go for a walk and try to find a hotel at 9pm... we finally found one 2 miles away from Pep boys but they are all booked so we ask where the next one might be and then send us 2 blocks away from Pep boys... Wish we would have known about that one first lol. It was a long night and I was devastated. I just wanted one weekend where it was just Jack and I for everything to go right... NOT going to happen. So Saturday morning still no luck so they finally get the rim to where it will drive but not for long. Just long enough to find somewhere else that might be able to fix the tire. So we drive about 20mins and need gas so we stop and ask if there were any junk yards around. We are desperate at this point. Luckily there was and they had a rim... So 200 dollars later we have a new tire a new rim and an oil change YAY us. I was so upset I just wanted to go back to the barracks and not even go to DC but Jack convinced me to go and I am glad we did. I wish we would have spent both days there like we planned but I saw almost everything I wanted to in the amount of time we were there. We made it to Bush Gardens on Sunday and had a great time. Monday we went Go-karting and just spent the day hanging out together. It was a nice honeymoon despite the little mishaps here and there. That was May for me... DEF not boring lol.
June... what can I remember about June. Not much really other than I had my other 2 wisdom teeth pulled out and then made another surprise trip to VA but this time I stayed for almost 2 weeks. We were able to spend Fathers Day with Jack which was nice. We hung out with some friends and just waited for Jack to get out of school. Well he had to get out of school earlier then planned because my Step Dad's father had passed away and we needed to get home for the funeral. So he was able to get out of school 5 days early. We left on Thursday and made it home Friday for the wake. The funeral was Saturday.
We had our family reunion Sunday which was a great time. It was the 1st time Jack had ever gone to one so it was nice. The rest of June was pretty much just spending time with the family hanging out enjoying everyday.
July oh July were you a busy month. Well the 1st was Abbie's 2nd Birthday and it was such a great day. Daddy had to go help my Step Dad for a little bit so it was Mommy and Abbie all day. We hung out spent time together, I did her hair we baked a bunch of little cakes, and then got ready to go to Chuck E. Cheese's we had a great time. It was Mommy, Daddy, Abbie, Alex, Lily, Aunt Cheryl, and Grandma Pat. We played games ate some pizza and cupcakes and opened presents. Abbie loved all her nice presents and had a blast. It was such a great day for her. The weekend was fun we went to my Uncle's Cabin with my Grandma on Saturday and then out to my Mom's on Sunday for the 4th. We went out on their boat and watch the fireworks on the water. It was a great Holiday for all of us. That Monday Jack and I had to leave to get to FL so we could get all of our stuff from storage packed and loaded with the movers to get us ready for WA. We got there on the 6th took care of some stuff and then met up with Jack's Dad and Step Mom who were in FL for a job (truck driver). So we spent the night with them and had a great time. We met with the movers the next day got all of that taken care of and then went back to the hotel room and just relaxed and spent some time together. Thursday we had some stuff to do at PSD, the bank, and the post office so we did all that and then went to Lelia's house that night for dinner. It was a very nice time and a great meal. We said our sad goodbye's and were headed back to the hotel. We packed the car and went to bed. Got up the next morning and headed for IL. YES we traveled A LOT over the last 6 months lol. So we make it to Illinois and it is time for Abbie's birthday party on Saturday the 10th. Our whole family is there the kids are there and it was an amazing time and just the party we needed before the move so far away. The week went by pretty fast which was very sad for me. I had lunch with my Aunt that Tuesday and now anytime I go to Olive Garden I cry lol. Thanks Aunt Cheryl. I spent a lot of time at my moms which was really nice and Abbie got to spend a lot of time with them which I know they all loved. Friday came along and it was time to go... It was a very sad and hard day for me... I am a family person and would give anything for my family. I hate that we are so far away but sometimes you must spread your wings and make a life of your own. I will be going home next July and can not wait. The drive up here was not to bad at all. We left Friday at 3pm and got to WA by Sunday at 8:30pm. We even stopped and did some sightseeing along the way.
We moved into our apt on the 19th and found out were expecting our 2nd baby on the 20th. I knew something was wrong when I couldn't eat Chinese food and my pants felt a little tighter than normal. We were going to wait til we had a doctors apt to tell anyone about the pregnancy but we decided to share our great news and tell the world on Friday!!! The rest of July was mainly just unpacking and settling in.
August has been pretty boring as well... Nothing really exciting yet. Jack had his 23rd Birthday on the 17th... he is getting old lol. I'm right behind him though. I will be 9 weeks pregnant tomorrow and just found out that my first apt wont be until September 13th at 1pm. I will be 11.5 weeks. To me that is INSANE. I guess I cant complain. My friend Rachael made a good point at least the sonogram will show a baby and not a sea monkey! :)
Well that is the last 6months wrapped up into a nut shell. I'm sure more happened but most people will make it to the end of April and stop reading. That is okay with me. I just felt like finally blogging since it had been way over due.
Until next time, I'm just "Taking things one day at a time".
19 February 2010
It has been far to long...
WOW... It has been 3 weeks since my last blog... That is to long to not blog since I promised myself I would blog everyday. Well it has been a pretty boring 3 weeks. Nothing much really going on.
I have done a lot of wedding planning and have ALMOST everything ordered or bought or in my house ready for the wedding. I just need to get a few more things and do some last minute details but other than that all is going great with the wedding. Just waiting on packages from online orders. All of my girls have either ordered or picked up their dresses. Both flower girls have their dresses, and I have mine. Now I'm just waiting on all the groomsmen to get their stuff taken care of.
So onto other things... Abbie has been doing pretty good. She has been sick on and off for the last couple of weeks which sucks, but the doctor just gave her a new antibiotic so fingers crossed that it works!! Other than being sick she has been moving around non stop, never slowing down for anything. She is still completely in love with Dora and we cant go anywhere without bringing her Dora Blanket and our car dvd players with her Dora DVD. Then she has to have her daddy doll, sippy and hat. All these things are a must. She can sing along to 4 songs on the Dora DVD and can sing 3 of the main songs on any Dora show. She can count to 3 only because Mommy counts to 3 when she is in trouble lol. She carries her cell phone around all day just talking away without a care of what she is saying. She plays with Diego non stop and likes to feed him snacks every chance she can get. I have a hard time getting her to eat her food sometimes but she is getting better at it. For the most part shes a very independent child with a free spirit and mind of her own. I love watching her grow more and more each day and can't wait to see what she learns next. Being a stay at home mommy is the greatest job in the world. I love it!!!
What has been going on with me... Besides I'm a wedding planning, child raising,shower taking, food eating, car driving, fake baking, movie watching, laundry doing, room cleaning, dog feeding, breathe taking person... I don't really do a lot during the day, I mainly just watch Abbie and Lily all day and then go tanning and watch movies at night with my love bug. I love it so much though. Life is very laid back and easy. I can just do my own thing when I want and how I want. Its very nice. Only down fall is I don't have own house... Living back home with my Grandma has some tiresome moments. I love her to death but I just wish there was more privacy, and peace and quiet. It gets stressful but other than that all is good. I suppose lol.
So this deployment keeps getting longer and longer it seems... I swear one day it seems like its almost over and the next I feel like I have 6 more months to go... I guess it doesn't help when there is fighting and arguments and stress and drama but oh well I guess that is part of deployment life and married life. Its not always going to be 100% perfect but for the most part things have been pretty good. Just missing my hubby more and more everyday.
But enough blogging today, maybe I'll actually have something to talk about tomorrow!!!
Until then I'm just taking things one day at a time.
I have done a lot of wedding planning and have ALMOST everything ordered or bought or in my house ready for the wedding. I just need to get a few more things and do some last minute details but other than that all is going great with the wedding. Just waiting on packages from online orders. All of my girls have either ordered or picked up their dresses. Both flower girls have their dresses, and I have mine. Now I'm just waiting on all the groomsmen to get their stuff taken care of.
So onto other things... Abbie has been doing pretty good. She has been sick on and off for the last couple of weeks which sucks, but the doctor just gave her a new antibiotic so fingers crossed that it works!! Other than being sick she has been moving around non stop, never slowing down for anything. She is still completely in love with Dora and we cant go anywhere without bringing her Dora Blanket and our car dvd players with her Dora DVD. Then she has to have her daddy doll, sippy and hat. All these things are a must. She can sing along to 4 songs on the Dora DVD and can sing 3 of the main songs on any Dora show. She can count to 3 only because Mommy counts to 3 when she is in trouble lol. She carries her cell phone around all day just talking away without a care of what she is saying. She plays with Diego non stop and likes to feed him snacks every chance she can get. I have a hard time getting her to eat her food sometimes but she is getting better at it. For the most part shes a very independent child with a free spirit and mind of her own. I love watching her grow more and more each day and can't wait to see what she learns next. Being a stay at home mommy is the greatest job in the world. I love it!!!
What has been going on with me... Besides I'm a wedding planning, child raising,shower taking, food eating, car driving, fake baking, movie watching, laundry doing, room cleaning, dog feeding, breathe taking person... I don't really do a lot during the day, I mainly just watch Abbie and Lily all day and then go tanning and watch movies at night with my love bug. I love it so much though. Life is very laid back and easy. I can just do my own thing when I want and how I want. Its very nice. Only down fall is I don't have own house... Living back home with my Grandma has some tiresome moments. I love her to death but I just wish there was more privacy, and peace and quiet. It gets stressful but other than that all is good. I suppose lol.
So this deployment keeps getting longer and longer it seems... I swear one day it seems like its almost over and the next I feel like I have 6 more months to go... I guess it doesn't help when there is fighting and arguments and stress and drama but oh well I guess that is part of deployment life and married life. Its not always going to be 100% perfect but for the most part things have been pretty good. Just missing my hubby more and more everyday.
But enough blogging today, maybe I'll actually have something to talk about tomorrow!!!
Until then I'm just taking things one day at a time.
28 January 2010
VERY ANGRY AT MY COMPUTER NOW!!!
SO I JUST WROTE THIS ENTIRE BLOG AND SOME HOME DELETED IT. I'M VERY VERY ANGRY... I WAS GOING TO EXPLAIN THE LAST WEEK BUT NOW I'M GOING GOING TO GIVE BRIEF DETAILS OF THE DAYS...
So it has been far to long since I blogged. I think a week now.
FRIDAY-Got my nails done and talked to Jack on web cam... had a nice night.
SATURDAY- Alex's 6th birthday party, met with the DJ for the wedding, spent quality time with the family, let my Mom have Abbie for the night. Talked to Jack on facebook for a while. Watched a movie and went to bed.
SUNDAY- Picked up Abbie hung out at my Mom's for a bit came home and talked to Jack on web cam. Watched the end of the Vickings-Saints game, got angry ordered a pizza and started reading Nicholas Sparks "At First Sight".
MONDAY-DID NOTHING :) It was a great day. I was very lazy... Sad that Jack was leaving port again though. Other than that sat on my butt all day :)
TUESDAY- Cleaned my room all morning!! Very productive. Took Abbie to the ear doctor everything looks great :) Came home watched some movies and hung out around the house yet again. Very boring week since last Thursday... Oh well...
WEDNESDAY-Went Tanning, babysat Alex and Lily, ate dinner, went to see "Up in the Air" (good movie... til the end) came home layed down til 2:30am. Got up took Abbie to the ER. Left the ER at 4:30am got home around 5am. Thought I was going to get to sleep in but did NOT.
Today!!!!!! Woke up at 8am, played with Abbie took a shower, gave Abbie a bath met my aunt at her work, went to Jeffrey Allans, Hobby Lobby, Michael's and Arby's. Got all of my flowers for the wedding and had a good 3 dollar lunch. Now sitting at home waiting for my grandma so I can go tanning.
This blog was much longer but I'm far to angry to re write everything. I'll start posting again tomorrow. When I find the time to actually write.
Until then I'm just taking things one day at a time.
So it has been far to long since I blogged. I think a week now.
FRIDAY-Got my nails done and talked to Jack on web cam... had a nice night.
SATURDAY- Alex's 6th birthday party, met with the DJ for the wedding, spent quality time with the family, let my Mom have Abbie for the night. Talked to Jack on facebook for a while. Watched a movie and went to bed.
SUNDAY- Picked up Abbie hung out at my Mom's for a bit came home and talked to Jack on web cam. Watched the end of the Vickings-Saints game, got angry ordered a pizza and started reading Nicholas Sparks "At First Sight".
MONDAY-DID NOTHING :) It was a great day. I was very lazy... Sad that Jack was leaving port again though. Other than that sat on my butt all day :)
TUESDAY- Cleaned my room all morning!! Very productive. Took Abbie to the ear doctor everything looks great :) Came home watched some movies and hung out around the house yet again. Very boring week since last Thursday... Oh well...
WEDNESDAY-Went Tanning, babysat Alex and Lily, ate dinner, went to see "Up in the Air" (good movie... til the end) came home layed down til 2:30am. Got up took Abbie to the ER. Left the ER at 4:30am got home around 5am. Thought I was going to get to sleep in but did NOT.
Today!!!!!! Woke up at 8am, played with Abbie took a shower, gave Abbie a bath met my aunt at her work, went to Jeffrey Allans, Hobby Lobby, Michael's and Arby's. Got all of my flowers for the wedding and had a good 3 dollar lunch. Now sitting at home waiting for my grandma so I can go tanning.
This blog was much longer but I'm far to angry to re write everything. I'll start posting again tomorrow. When I find the time to actually write.
Until then I'm just taking things one day at a time.
21 January 2010
Pretty good Thursday :)
Hello Again... So I thought I would start today off by saying Hey to anyone that MIGHT read this... granted I have 2 followers and I know they are both busy with their own lives and probably don't read this but oh well... lol I made this blog to remember what I do on a daily basis and to let Jack know how Abbie and I are doing. So I'm sorry if anyone doesn't like hearing about my day or whatever but it is the soul purpose of this blog!! Other than that I hope you enjoy.
Anyways so my day today was pretty good. I cant complain to much. I woke up at 9am. Abbie and Lily were in the front room with my Mom watching TV. Not a bad way to start off the morning. So I sat down on the chair and started talking to my mom about the wedding and her job interview and just different things. Well she was thirsty/hungry so she sent me to McDonald's for a Sweet Tea and Big Mac. Well I got her order and ordered myself a Sweet Tea. Came back home and relaxed for a little longer. Well I forgot Abbie had pictures at 12pm. So I had to hurry up and take a shower and get myself ready. After my shower I put Abbie's hair in pigtails and got her dressed for her pictures. We left the house and headed to Sears. Only place I use. (Thanks to Lelia) So we get to the mall and Abbie does not want to cooperate with the lady and did not want to take pictures. It was a nightmare but an hour later we finally got done and had a few good shots. So an hour late and money I didn't need to spend spent. It was time to go down stairs to the play area. I let Abbie play for a little bit and she ran over a kid so it was time to leave... I was embarrassed. Anyways we get home and Abbie takes a nap. I relax and write my earlier blog and look up more wedding stuff. After that Abbie woke up and ate her lunch! I cleaned her up and we went to Family Video to rent some movies. She wanted Dora and Spongebob and I picked "Nights In Rodanthe", Harry Potter "Half Blood Prince", "G.I. Joe", "New In Town". I hope they are all good!!! Then we came home and she started watching Spongebob and I started writing another blog and watching TV. I plan on watching 1 of my 4 movies tonight, Idk which one but I'll watch one. So that was my Thursday night... nothing to exciting really.
Nothing new with the wedding really other than I think I may have found a photographer for the wedding :) I'm just waiting for an email back. She does great work and her prices are what I was looking for :) I really hope she's available... FINGERS CROSSED :) I cant wait for the big day :) It's going to be amazing... :) But until then we are just taking things one day at a time.
Anyways so my day today was pretty good. I cant complain to much. I woke up at 9am. Abbie and Lily were in the front room with my Mom watching TV. Not a bad way to start off the morning. So I sat down on the chair and started talking to my mom about the wedding and her job interview and just different things. Well she was thirsty/hungry so she sent me to McDonald's for a Sweet Tea and Big Mac. Well I got her order and ordered myself a Sweet Tea. Came back home and relaxed for a little longer. Well I forgot Abbie had pictures at 12pm. So I had to hurry up and take a shower and get myself ready. After my shower I put Abbie's hair in pigtails and got her dressed for her pictures. We left the house and headed to Sears. Only place I use. (Thanks to Lelia) So we get to the mall and Abbie does not want to cooperate with the lady and did not want to take pictures. It was a nightmare but an hour later we finally got done and had a few good shots. So an hour late and money I didn't need to spend spent. It was time to go down stairs to the play area. I let Abbie play for a little bit and she ran over a kid so it was time to leave... I was embarrassed. Anyways we get home and Abbie takes a nap. I relax and write my earlier blog and look up more wedding stuff. After that Abbie woke up and ate her lunch! I cleaned her up and we went to Family Video to rent some movies. She wanted Dora and Spongebob and I picked "Nights In Rodanthe", Harry Potter "Half Blood Prince", "G.I. Joe", "New In Town". I hope they are all good!!! Then we came home and she started watching Spongebob and I started writing another blog and watching TV. I plan on watching 1 of my 4 movies tonight, Idk which one but I'll watch one. So that was my Thursday night... nothing to exciting really.
Nothing new with the wedding really other than I think I may have found a photographer for the wedding :) I'm just waiting for an email back. She does great work and her prices are what I was looking for :) I really hope she's available... FINGERS CROSSED :) I cant wait for the big day :) It's going to be amazing... :) But until then we are just taking things one day at a time.
Monday-Wednesday
It has been a few days since I posted last and decided to stop slacking and get to it. I spent 5 days in Rockford and only posted twice... NOT GOOD. I promised myself I would write everyday and just because I'm on vacation doesn't mean I should be a slacker. So I'm writing today about the last 3 days of my life.
Monday ohh Monday what did I do??? Well first off I got an amazing call from the greatest hubby in the world and, then got to talk to him off and on all day it was very nice. I mostly just say around my uncle's house just relaxing and watching TV. Rockford was a totally different environment then Springfield so I was able to just relax and not be completely stressed out the whole time...Other than that I really didn't do a whole lot other than talk to Jack!!!!!
Tuesday was a very good day. I woke up very early. Not really sure why but I did. I cleaned up the living room and did some laundry and took care of Abbie. My Uncle Tony wanted to go to the mall so we did. We walked around for a little but and stopped at Barnes & Noble to get myself a book. Well I bought a book and Abbie got a book and I became a member :) So now discounts for me :) YAY. We left the mall and then went to the NICEST Dairy Queen I have ever been in. It was basically like a fancy restaurant. It was crazy. Abbie Tony and I just say there and talked and hung out and just relaxed. It was just a really good afternoon. Then we went back to the house and I got to talk to Jack on webcam all night :) I was soo excited and happy to finally get to talk to him and see him after 2 weeks of NOTHING. It was very refreshing and a great reassurance that things were going to be OK and that the deployment was on the downward slop and almost over. Later that night my Uncle Joe came over and we all just talked to Jack on web cam, Tuesday was a very good night and a great way to end the last day of vacation. We watched some movies and headed to bed.
Wednesday night was VERY interesting... But before the night I'll tell ya a little bit about my day. I woke up at 8am and got all of my stuff packed and ready to go because we were suppose to leave at 3pm. So I gave Abbie a bath, finished packing the bags, and took a shower myself. Well Tony and Tinia were gone so Abbie and I had the house to ourselves. It was VERY relaxing and quiet... something I NEVER get in Springfield. I really didn't want to leave. It was DRAMA FREE, STALKER FREE, NO BITCHING, AND LIFE WAS JUST SIMPLE... I loved it. Well around 2:30 Tinia came home and asked if I wanted to go get a drink at the VFW with my Uncle because there was an ice storm coming in and we were not leaving at least not til it was passed. So I went down and had 4 drinks with my Uncle. I was very happy at this point but not drunk. I have come to terms with the fact I don't need to get drunk when I go out. I can just have a couple of drinks and be happy and have a good time. I never thought I would be sitting at a bar with my Uncle though... It was rather interesting. Well at 4:30pm we decided to call Tinia and have her pick us up. So we left and went back to their house. We has some soup and watched some TV. Well at 6:30pm the weather had calmed down and Tinia decided she wanted to leave because she needed to work today so we packed the rest of the car and hit the road at 7pm. Well we were driving for about 10 mins when instead of staying behind the semi Tinia decided to pass and well lets just say that did NOT go over very well... we were in my SUV which in turn hit the air pocket between us and the semi and then we hit a patch of black ice... well lets just say I thought I was going to die because we were in the left lane and I was in the passenger seat and closest to the Semi... Well Tinia is a pretty good driver and instead of killing us turned the wheels the right way and ended up in the ditch in the middle of the highway... we were stuck in ICE AND SNOW... NOT good at all... At least no one was hurt and there was no damage to the car!! Well we weren't as lucky as we could have been. We were completely stuck and couldn't get out of the middle... Well me being the stubborn one and refusing to call for help decided that I would push the car and see how well that worked. Well I had on Birkenstock clogs and was in about 6 inches of snow... We are only an hour south of Chicago so they have A LOT of snow up there... I got the car pushed pretty far but we were still stuck. I pushed and pushed for about 20mins. Finally a cop shows up. Well he didn't really do much other than get the traffic to go in one lane so we could get out of the middle... Well I gave it the last push and 25mins later we were finally out. My feet were freezing, my back was throbbing, and I couldn't stop shaking because it was so cold. Well we were headed the wrong direction now so we had to turn around at the closest gas station. Well Tinia didn't want to drive anymore because she wasn't used to the car so I drove the rest of the 180miles we had to go. We drove 30miles an hour for almost 3 hours and then finally hit 65 when we were 40 miles outside of Springfield. It was the worst drive of my life and I will NEVER drive in the ICE again... We finally made it home at midnight. Lets just say my Wednesday was a night I'll never forget... Besides that we are just taking things one day at a time.
Monday ohh Monday what did I do??? Well first off I got an amazing call from the greatest hubby in the world and, then got to talk to him off and on all day it was very nice. I mostly just say around my uncle's house just relaxing and watching TV. Rockford was a totally different environment then Springfield so I was able to just relax and not be completely stressed out the whole time...Other than that I really didn't do a whole lot other than talk to Jack!!!!!
Tuesday was a very good day. I woke up very early. Not really sure why but I did. I cleaned up the living room and did some laundry and took care of Abbie. My Uncle Tony wanted to go to the mall so we did. We walked around for a little but and stopped at Barnes & Noble to get myself a book. Well I bought a book and Abbie got a book and I became a member :) So now discounts for me :) YAY. We left the mall and then went to the NICEST Dairy Queen I have ever been in. It was basically like a fancy restaurant. It was crazy. Abbie Tony and I just say there and talked and hung out and just relaxed. It was just a really good afternoon. Then we went back to the house and I got to talk to Jack on webcam all night :) I was soo excited and happy to finally get to talk to him and see him after 2 weeks of NOTHING. It was very refreshing and a great reassurance that things were going to be OK and that the deployment was on the downward slop and almost over. Later that night my Uncle Joe came over and we all just talked to Jack on web cam, Tuesday was a very good night and a great way to end the last day of vacation. We watched some movies and headed to bed.
Wednesday night was VERY interesting... But before the night I'll tell ya a little bit about my day. I woke up at 8am and got all of my stuff packed and ready to go because we were suppose to leave at 3pm. So I gave Abbie a bath, finished packing the bags, and took a shower myself. Well Tony and Tinia were gone so Abbie and I had the house to ourselves. It was VERY relaxing and quiet... something I NEVER get in Springfield. I really didn't want to leave. It was DRAMA FREE, STALKER FREE, NO BITCHING, AND LIFE WAS JUST SIMPLE... I loved it. Well around 2:30 Tinia came home and asked if I wanted to go get a drink at the VFW with my Uncle because there was an ice storm coming in and we were not leaving at least not til it was passed. So I went down and had 4 drinks with my Uncle. I was very happy at this point but not drunk. I have come to terms with the fact I don't need to get drunk when I go out. I can just have a couple of drinks and be happy and have a good time. I never thought I would be sitting at a bar with my Uncle though... It was rather interesting. Well at 4:30pm we decided to call Tinia and have her pick us up. So we left and went back to their house. We has some soup and watched some TV. Well at 6:30pm the weather had calmed down and Tinia decided she wanted to leave because she needed to work today so we packed the rest of the car and hit the road at 7pm. Well we were driving for about 10 mins when instead of staying behind the semi Tinia decided to pass and well lets just say that did NOT go over very well... we were in my SUV which in turn hit the air pocket between us and the semi and then we hit a patch of black ice... well lets just say I thought I was going to die because we were in the left lane and I was in the passenger seat and closest to the Semi... Well Tinia is a pretty good driver and instead of killing us turned the wheels the right way and ended up in the ditch in the middle of the highway... we were stuck in ICE AND SNOW... NOT good at all... At least no one was hurt and there was no damage to the car!! Well we weren't as lucky as we could have been. We were completely stuck and couldn't get out of the middle... Well me being the stubborn one and refusing to call for help decided that I would push the car and see how well that worked. Well I had on Birkenstock clogs and was in about 6 inches of snow... We are only an hour south of Chicago so they have A LOT of snow up there... I got the car pushed pretty far but we were still stuck. I pushed and pushed for about 20mins. Finally a cop shows up. Well he didn't really do much other than get the traffic to go in one lane so we could get out of the middle... Well I gave it the last push and 25mins later we were finally out. My feet were freezing, my back was throbbing, and I couldn't stop shaking because it was so cold. Well we were headed the wrong direction now so we had to turn around at the closest gas station. Well Tinia didn't want to drive anymore because she wasn't used to the car so I drove the rest of the 180miles we had to go. We drove 30miles an hour for almost 3 hours and then finally hit 65 when we were 40 miles outside of Springfield. It was the worst drive of my life and I will NEVER drive in the ICE again... We finally made it home at midnight. Lets just say my Wednesday was a night I'll never forget... Besides that we are just taking things one day at a time.
18 January 2010
Sunday through my Monday eyes...
Yesterday was a very good day. I'm still in Rockford and was able to sleep in. Everyone in the house including Abbie slept in. It was a very nice way to start off my Sunday. Well about 20 mins after everyone woke up my Uncle Joe dropped by for some coffee and just to hang out. Well of course Sunday Football Play off games are on today so my Uncle Tony and Uncle Joe plan on where they are going to go watch the game. They decide on Cousin's Bar and Grill. So Kyle and I take them to the bar. Kyle has to work at 3 and they wont be done til after that so I had to figure out where I was going. Simple enough. So it's only 11:30am when we get back to the house. We decided it was going to be a lazy day for us. We put in Transformers 2 (blu-ray) and start watching it. I love that movie. After the movie, Abbie takes a nap and Kyle leaves for work. Uncle Tony call's and asks for a ride. I'm on my way. I find Cousin's with no problem and walk in to get them. They still had half a pitcher so I sit down and wait. Well my Uncle Joe asks if I would like a drink. I say sure and order a fuzzy navel. One drink is not going to impair my driving and it if does I shouldn't be drinking. So we sit and talk and I'm out of a drink so my Uncle orders me another one... It's fine because we are eating wings and there is no way I'll get drunk off of 2 drinks. I was correct. We watch the 1st half of the Jets-Chargers game and then leave. We dropped Uncle Joe off at his house and head for the store we are going to make meatloaf for dinner... better yet I am going to make meatloaf.
So I have never made meatloaf and cant even remember the last time I even ate meatloaf. So my uncle walks me through it step by step.... it was actually fairly easy. I was very impressed with how much I actually liked cooking... usually I hate it. Anyways we put the meatloaf in the oven and finish watching the game. The game is over and the meatloaf still has time so we channel surf for a while. Finally dinner is ready and its time to test my cooking. We get the plates ready get set up and start eating dinner... It was VERY good. I was VERY proud of myself. Something new I can make when Jack gets home. <3
Dinner is all done and its TV time. We sit down and watch 24. Personally I have never watched it before but everyone else loved it. So I just sat there and relaxed. Didn't want to blog last night though I was kinda tired and didn't feel like typing so I didn't. After 24 Tinia went upstairs to sleep and I put Abbie in her bed to sleep. Uncle Tony and I stayed downstairs and watched the "Breakfast Club" great movie. I had never seen it before. After the movie everyone was really tired so everyone but me when to bed. I stayed up and did what I always do.... THINK!!! It was a long night and I finally fell asleep at about 3am... even though I layed on the couch I couldn't sleep. I just had 100 thoughts about Jack going on through my head... I miss him so very much and just want to know that things are OK and that no matter what we can make it through anything!!!!! Well that was my Sunday, lets hope there is more to talk about later tonight when I blog about today!!
Until then I'm taking things one day at a time.
So I have never made meatloaf and cant even remember the last time I even ate meatloaf. So my uncle walks me through it step by step.... it was actually fairly easy. I was very impressed with how much I actually liked cooking... usually I hate it. Anyways we put the meatloaf in the oven and finish watching the game. The game is over and the meatloaf still has time so we channel surf for a while. Finally dinner is ready and its time to test my cooking. We get the plates ready get set up and start eating dinner... It was VERY good. I was VERY proud of myself. Something new I can make when Jack gets home. <3
Dinner is all done and its TV time. We sit down and watch 24. Personally I have never watched it before but everyone else loved it. So I just sat there and relaxed. Didn't want to blog last night though I was kinda tired and didn't feel like typing so I didn't. After 24 Tinia went upstairs to sleep and I put Abbie in her bed to sleep. Uncle Tony and I stayed downstairs and watched the "Breakfast Club" great movie. I had never seen it before. After the movie everyone was really tired so everyone but me when to bed. I stayed up and did what I always do.... THINK!!! It was a long night and I finally fell asleep at about 3am... even though I layed on the couch I couldn't sleep. I just had 100 thoughts about Jack going on through my head... I miss him so very much and just want to know that things are OK and that no matter what we can make it through anything!!!!! Well that was my Sunday, lets hope there is more to talk about later tonight when I blog about today!!
Until then I'm taking things one day at a time.
16 January 2010
Just another Saturday...
Today is Saturday, nothing real important about that other than Abbie and I are headed to Rockford today. Well our day started off pretty good other than I realized I was suppose to do my laundry last night and instead stayed up to watch Criminal Minds. I know I am beyond addicted. It gets me through my days and that's what matters. Anyways... So I get up and clean the room up a bit and start laundry. So laundry is started and the bedroom is clean now time to pack... Oh shoot forgot I have 2 care packages to mail off... So I have my Uncle watch Abbie and I run to the post office. It took 30mins to get 2 packages mailed off... Well there's 30mins of time I just lost. Oh well it was worth it. Anything for Jack :) So I get back home and switch over the laundry. I then go back up stairs, get Abbie ready, pack the car, run around like a chicken with my head cut off, and finish the laundry. My Aunt Tinia shows up around 12:30pm and I let her know I need just a few more minutes. So I get the rest packed and we are off. We head to the video store to return a movie and then stop to get gas, 32 dollars later and we are off. The drive up wasn't to bad. Abbie slept the whole time and Tinia and I talked about the wedding and the family and just about life in general. Well finally 3 hours later we make it to my Uncle Tony's house :) YAY... No more driving for me. So we get the car unloaded and the living room set up and stuff for Abbie and I. After everything is ready we head to the living room to watch TV. Well my uncle was watching football and Abbie became glued to the TV. More so then she does with Dora, so we watched the game for a little but but had to run to Walmart to get some stuff. She wasn't very happy that we had to leave again but oh well.
We get to Walmart and do our shopping. I get some cards for Jack and some pickles for Abbie. She picked them out. :) We check out and leave. Get gas AGAIN and head back to Tony's. Uncle Tony makes some pizza and we wait to eat. We sit down eat dinner and watch some more football. Aunt Tinia goes to bed and I stay downstairs with Abbie and my Uncle Tony. We watch even more football... by this point I'm ready for something else. FACEBOOK :) So I play around on the computer and go to peopleofwalmart.com and WOW... there is really no other way to say it. Its finally 8pm so I take Abbie upstairs to give her a bath. She plays for a bit I wash her up and its time to get out. I take her back downstairs get her ready for bed and lay her down in her pack n play. I come back to the front room and watch even more football... UGH... Such a boring day. Oh well I guess tomorrow will be better :) I plan on making a trip to down town Chicago and then heading to Wisconsin to get my Uncle Tony some cigarettes and just so I can say I've been to the state of Wisconsin :) I know I'm a loser but I'm OK with that.
I'm getting very excited for next week because I think I will FINALLY get to talk to the hubby. I'm trying to not get my hopes up because any one knows when you get your hopes up for something 90% of the time your going to be let down. So for now I'm just going to pray and hope that I get to talk to him.
Abbie is doing great, she really likes to learn new words and repeats almost anything I say. She learns at least 2 new words a day and remembers them and uses them again. I know some kids will only repeat if someone else is saying it but not Abbie she just talks and talks and talks. I love it and she amazes me so much more everyday. She brings so much joy and happiness into my life and even when I'm sad she always finds a way to make me smile and look for happy things. I don't know what I would do without her.
Other than that nothing really happened today. I'm just enjoying the peace and relaxation of being away from Springfield, drama, and my stalker who hasn't gotten the clue that I'm about to call the cops on him. Anyways enough of that. I miss Jack more and more each day and can't wait to hear from him again. It has been far to long. Abbie and I are hoping for a more eventful day tomorrow with lots of fun and laughter with the family!!! It should be a great next 4 days... but Until then Abbie and I are just taking things one day at a time.
We get to Walmart and do our shopping. I get some cards for Jack and some pickles for Abbie. She picked them out. :) We check out and leave. Get gas AGAIN and head back to Tony's. Uncle Tony makes some pizza and we wait to eat. We sit down eat dinner and watch some more football. Aunt Tinia goes to bed and I stay downstairs with Abbie and my Uncle Tony. We watch even more football... by this point I'm ready for something else. FACEBOOK :) So I play around on the computer and go to peopleofwalmart.com and WOW... there is really no other way to say it. Its finally 8pm so I take Abbie upstairs to give her a bath. She plays for a bit I wash her up and its time to get out. I take her back downstairs get her ready for bed and lay her down in her pack n play. I come back to the front room and watch even more football... UGH... Such a boring day. Oh well I guess tomorrow will be better :) I plan on making a trip to down town Chicago and then heading to Wisconsin to get my Uncle Tony some cigarettes and just so I can say I've been to the state of Wisconsin :) I know I'm a loser but I'm OK with that.
I'm getting very excited for next week because I think I will FINALLY get to talk to the hubby. I'm trying to not get my hopes up because any one knows when you get your hopes up for something 90% of the time your going to be let down. So for now I'm just going to pray and hope that I get to talk to him.
Abbie is doing great, she really likes to learn new words and repeats almost anything I say. She learns at least 2 new words a day and remembers them and uses them again. I know some kids will only repeat if someone else is saying it but not Abbie she just talks and talks and talks. I love it and she amazes me so much more everyday. She brings so much joy and happiness into my life and even when I'm sad she always finds a way to make me smile and look for happy things. I don't know what I would do without her.
Other than that nothing really happened today. I'm just enjoying the peace and relaxation of being away from Springfield, drama, and my stalker who hasn't gotten the clue that I'm about to call the cops on him. Anyways enough of that. I miss Jack more and more each day and can't wait to hear from him again. It has been far to long. Abbie and I are hoping for a more eventful day tomorrow with lots of fun and laughter with the family!!! It should be a great next 4 days... but Until then Abbie and I are just taking things one day at a time.
15 January 2010
I'm ready for anything.
Well my day started off pretty much the same as always. Abbie woke me up around 7:30am by crawling into my bed and laying half of her body on top of mine. She then decides she wants her diaper changed and some milk from the fridge. So she says "Mi Mi" her version of Mommy about 5 times til I finally get up and tend to her needs. Then she walks me back to our room and lays on the bed with me for about 15mins before getting up and leaving the room to play with my Grandma. So I continue to lay in bed til about 8:30am and then get myself up. As much as I hate 8:30am I wouldn't give up my mornings with Abbie for anything in this world.
Well I play with her and Lily for a bit and then they get tired of someone older playing, so they run off and entertain themselves. I don't mind, it gives me a chance to play around on the computer. So I checked my email and still nothing NO surprise there... and then I tab over to my blog. Something different today. Usually its Yahoo.com and then Facebook.com. Not today :) Well I blogged this morning while the girls were playing and then called a good friend and talked to her for awhile about the issues on the ship and about our perfect little angels. I would have to say I have talked to her more in the last 2 days then I have in the last month. I'm definitely going to make a habit of calling more. :) Well we finish our conversation and its time for me to take a shower. So I'm showering when my phone rings and it's my aunt so I answer since shes planning my whole wedding I figured it might be important... I was correct.
So she asks me to meet her at Samsclub because she has some shopping to do and we can talk wedding stuff. So I finish my shower get ready, get Abbie ready and decide to put her hair in pigtails today. She looked adorable!!! We left and met Aunt Cheryl at Samsclub which worked out great for me because I had care package stuff to pick up anyways. We walked around and talked for a little bit, checked out got some pizza and left. She went back to work and I went home.
So I stayed home for a little bit because its fairly chilly outside and it was Abbie's nap time. She decided she didn't want to sleep...Well I still had care package items to get and pictures to pick up and print out. So Abbie and I leave the house and run to the mall to return a scarf and pick up her Christmas pictures. We then leave there and head to Walmart. Well she fell asleep so I ran to my Aunts house to pick up pictures I had there. By this time Abbie had woke back up and Walmart was on our way home. So we go into Walmart to get all of Daddy's care package stuff. She gets excited picking out Little Debbie snacks for her Daddy. So we finished our shopping and headed home. Well we still had errands to run and so we turned around to run our errands. We went to the movie store and picked out a few movies to watch tonight. "Pearl Harbor" "Dora" & "The Other Man". After that we ran to Walgreens to drop of a roll of film to be developed. We left there and came back home. We then packed up 2 full care packages to mail off to Jack. We did not seal them yet because Abbie wanted to draw a picture for Daddy and we still had pictures to put in them. So Abbie draws her picture and my grandma came home in the middle of it. I ask her to watch Abbie while I go and pick up the pictures to get them into the care package so I can mail it off in the morning before I leave for Rockford. She agrees and I leave. I get to Walgreens pick up the pictures and head home. When I got home dinner was ready. Crab legs, Salad, and a Baked Potato!! How yummy! So we sit down and eat. After dinner I finish packing up the care packages get them labeled and all ready to mail out. So another 2 care packages done and ready for the hubby :) SOOOO excited and proud of Abbie and myself!
After that not a whole lot happened Abbie has been playing with Diego and Angel and I've been sitting in the chair blogging. I know my days might not seem like much but they are everything to me. I have my moments and I complain but in the end everything I go through is worth it. 3.5 months of this deployment are over and only 3 to go. I'm ready to have Jack back in my arms and ready for a fresh start in Washington. I have made a lot of great friends over the last 3 years, some have come and gone and others have come, gone, and come back to stay. I've been burned and crushed but no matter what life throws my way I'm ready for it now. I have grown as a Wife, A Mother, A Friend, and A Women. I am ready to try new things and challenge myself as a wife and mother. I'm ready to be the Susie homemaker and Southern house wife that my husband wants from me :) I'm ready to be the full time mommy even more so than I am. This deployment has opened my eyes up to many things both good and bad but it has made me realize just how lucky I am to have an amazing husband and father for my child and an amazing daughter who I love more and more each day. I have everything I could want and more. Things don't always go my way and they never will but I'm OK with that and I know that my future with Jack, Abbie and our future children is going to be amazing and I can't wait to have him home in my arms again. Until then I'm taking things one day at a time.
Well I play with her and Lily for a bit and then they get tired of someone older playing, so they run off and entertain themselves. I don't mind, it gives me a chance to play around on the computer. So I checked my email and still nothing NO surprise there... and then I tab over to my blog. Something different today. Usually its Yahoo.com and then Facebook.com. Not today :) Well I blogged this morning while the girls were playing and then called a good friend and talked to her for awhile about the issues on the ship and about our perfect little angels. I would have to say I have talked to her more in the last 2 days then I have in the last month. I'm definitely going to make a habit of calling more. :) Well we finish our conversation and its time for me to take a shower. So I'm showering when my phone rings and it's my aunt so I answer since shes planning my whole wedding I figured it might be important... I was correct.
So she asks me to meet her at Samsclub because she has some shopping to do and we can talk wedding stuff. So I finish my shower get ready, get Abbie ready and decide to put her hair in pigtails today. She looked adorable!!! We left and met Aunt Cheryl at Samsclub which worked out great for me because I had care package stuff to pick up anyways. We walked around and talked for a little bit, checked out got some pizza and left. She went back to work and I went home.
So I stayed home for a little bit because its fairly chilly outside and it was Abbie's nap time. She decided she didn't want to sleep...Well I still had care package items to get and pictures to pick up and print out. So Abbie and I leave the house and run to the mall to return a scarf and pick up her Christmas pictures. We then leave there and head to Walmart. Well she fell asleep so I ran to my Aunts house to pick up pictures I had there. By this time Abbie had woke back up and Walmart was on our way home. So we go into Walmart to get all of Daddy's care package stuff. She gets excited picking out Little Debbie snacks for her Daddy. So we finished our shopping and headed home. Well we still had errands to run and so we turned around to run our errands. We went to the movie store and picked out a few movies to watch tonight. "Pearl Harbor" "Dora" & "The Other Man". After that we ran to Walgreens to drop of a roll of film to be developed. We left there and came back home. We then packed up 2 full care packages to mail off to Jack. We did not seal them yet because Abbie wanted to draw a picture for Daddy and we still had pictures to put in them. So Abbie draws her picture and my grandma came home in the middle of it. I ask her to watch Abbie while I go and pick up the pictures to get them into the care package so I can mail it off in the morning before I leave for Rockford. She agrees and I leave. I get to Walgreens pick up the pictures and head home. When I got home dinner was ready. Crab legs, Salad, and a Baked Potato!! How yummy! So we sit down and eat. After dinner I finish packing up the care packages get them labeled and all ready to mail out. So another 2 care packages done and ready for the hubby :) SOOOO excited and proud of Abbie and myself!
After that not a whole lot happened Abbie has been playing with Diego and Angel and I've been sitting in the chair blogging. I know my days might not seem like much but they are everything to me. I have my moments and I complain but in the end everything I go through is worth it. 3.5 months of this deployment are over and only 3 to go. I'm ready to have Jack back in my arms and ready for a fresh start in Washington. I have made a lot of great friends over the last 3 years, some have come and gone and others have come, gone, and come back to stay. I've been burned and crushed but no matter what life throws my way I'm ready for it now. I have grown as a Wife, A Mother, A Friend, and A Women. I am ready to try new things and challenge myself as a wife and mother. I'm ready to be the Susie homemaker and Southern house wife that my husband wants from me :) I'm ready to be the full time mommy even more so than I am. This deployment has opened my eyes up to many things both good and bad but it has made me realize just how lucky I am to have an amazing husband and father for my child and an amazing daughter who I love more and more each day. I have everything I could want and more. Things don't always go my way and they never will but I'm OK with that and I know that my future with Jack, Abbie and our future children is going to be amazing and I can't wait to have him home in my arms again. Until then I'm taking things one day at a time.
My not so eventful Friday Morning.
Well it's only 8:36am on Friday and most might think that's not early. To me this is very early. Al though I'm up at this time everyday it's still early to me. Well last night I played around on face book and then on here for awhile and started thinking... not a good thing for me at midnight. Anyways I have come to terms with the fact that I wont get to talk to my Husband anytime soon and after this blog I will not say another word about it. What is the point? I'm just going to be told the same thing 100 times... He will email when it is safe. What does that really mean. He is in the middle of an Ocean NOT in the US and chasing the bad guys... IS he ever "safe"? I guess that's not a question that can ever be answered fully or honestly. Well enough about that. Onto different things.
Abbie and I are planning a trip to go to Rockford, IL. this weekend. It's about an hour away from Chicago. I have had a lot of unnecessary drama and stress over the last 3 months and need an escape. Things in Springfield are just getting to crazy and not talking to Jack hasn't helped. So off we go to the great North. :) I think Abbie my cousin Kyle and I might make a little trip to Navy Pier and the Sears Tower. Depending on the weather of course. I lived in Illinois for 18 years and not one been to the Sears Tower... Kind of depressing. Oh well maybe this weekend that will change. We will have 4 days to get it done. :)
Wedding planning is coming along great. I have almost everything done. Church is booked, rehearsal dinner and reception booked, DJ booked, Dress bought, invites ordered, flower lady talked to, only things I really need to get done is to pick out a photographer and get the flowers done. My Aunt Cheryl aka Maid of Honor has been amazing. She has made planning this wedding so simple. I never thought I could do it in 4 months since I didn't start planning til January but she has made it possible. Now let's just hope that Jack gets the proper leave and actually gets to make it to our wedding. I'm beginning to get a little paranoid about it. :( I guess I just have to wait and hope it plays out my way. I have spent a lot of time and money at Davids Bridal over the last 3 days, but in the end it will all be worth it.
My days and nights are all a blur right now, I can't remember half of what I do when I do it. Another reason for starting this blog. That way when I look back at my work I can maybe remember what I did. Wednesday was an easy day I just stayed at home all day and hung out around the house. Nothing to exciting there. At least not that I can remember. Yesterday though I went to Davids Bridal with my Mom and Little Sister Amanda and Brother Nathan. We got Amanda's dress ordered and paid for and picked out a beautiful dress for my mom. We left and took Nathan to Menswearhouse where he got fitted and stuff for his Tux. I then came home ate some lunch and had another meeting at 4 with Kathy who is in charge of the reception. Everything is looking great and coming together very well. After that I had a WIC appointment at 6 and thought I was going to be there for ever... I was there at 6 and left by 6:15pm It was AWESOME. I love Illinois WIC appointments :)After that I got some food and decided to come home and just hang out around the house watching Criminal Minds. I then somehow stumbled a crossed the 3rd person to be blogging and decided I wanted to start blogging myself. So I did and spent about 3 hours trying to figure out how to make it pretty. So far so good. :) I'm very happy with myself and plan on blogging at least once a day if not more. For now I'm just taking things one day at a time.
Abbie and I are planning a trip to go to Rockford, IL. this weekend. It's about an hour away from Chicago. I have had a lot of unnecessary drama and stress over the last 3 months and need an escape. Things in Springfield are just getting to crazy and not talking to Jack hasn't helped. So off we go to the great North. :) I think Abbie my cousin Kyle and I might make a little trip to Navy Pier and the Sears Tower. Depending on the weather of course. I lived in Illinois for 18 years and not one been to the Sears Tower... Kind of depressing. Oh well maybe this weekend that will change. We will have 4 days to get it done. :)
Wedding planning is coming along great. I have almost everything done. Church is booked, rehearsal dinner and reception booked, DJ booked, Dress bought, invites ordered, flower lady talked to, only things I really need to get done is to pick out a photographer and get the flowers done. My Aunt Cheryl aka Maid of Honor has been amazing. She has made planning this wedding so simple. I never thought I could do it in 4 months since I didn't start planning til January but she has made it possible. Now let's just hope that Jack gets the proper leave and actually gets to make it to our wedding. I'm beginning to get a little paranoid about it. :( I guess I just have to wait and hope it plays out my way. I have spent a lot of time and money at Davids Bridal over the last 3 days, but in the end it will all be worth it.
My days and nights are all a blur right now, I can't remember half of what I do when I do it. Another reason for starting this blog. That way when I look back at my work I can maybe remember what I did. Wednesday was an easy day I just stayed at home all day and hung out around the house. Nothing to exciting there. At least not that I can remember. Yesterday though I went to Davids Bridal with my Mom and Little Sister Amanda and Brother Nathan. We got Amanda's dress ordered and paid for and picked out a beautiful dress for my mom. We left and took Nathan to Menswearhouse where he got fitted and stuff for his Tux. I then came home ate some lunch and had another meeting at 4 with Kathy who is in charge of the reception. Everything is looking great and coming together very well. After that I had a WIC appointment at 6 and thought I was going to be there for ever... I was there at 6 and left by 6:15pm It was AWESOME. I love Illinois WIC appointments :)After that I got some food and decided to come home and just hang out around the house watching Criminal Minds. I then somehow stumbled a crossed the 3rd person to be blogging and decided I wanted to start blogging myself. So I did and spent about 3 hours trying to figure out how to make it pretty. So far so good. :) I'm very happy with myself and plan on blogging at least once a day if not more. For now I'm just taking things one day at a time.
14 January 2010
Getting Started...
I'm not one to write what I'm feeling or let many people in but I figured this was a good way to change that and allow people close to me. Also to allow myself some space to get things off my chest since right now communication with Jack is down.
Lately things have been a little crazy and not real certain but I'm getting through it one day at a time. Living at home is getting harder and harder. The stress level just keeps increasing and I question my sanity every morning. I may not be doing the best but Abbie has been doing great since her ear surgery and acting like a completely different kid! She's always smiling and happy and talking so much more clearly. It's an amazing feeling to know that I made the right choice to get her tubes and not feel guilty for making her go through surgery at such a young age.
Jack and I have been doing great just trying to make it through our 3rd deployment... It's been rough the last 10 days without communication but I understand he has a job to do and I just have to keep on waiting... Not that I enjoy that, but it's what I have to do.
Other than that not a whole lot to say right now... tomorrow starts my real blogging.
Hope everyone has a great night :)
Taking things one day at a time...
Lately things have been a little crazy and not real certain but I'm getting through it one day at a time. Living at home is getting harder and harder. The stress level just keeps increasing and I question my sanity every morning. I may not be doing the best but Abbie has been doing great since her ear surgery and acting like a completely different kid! She's always smiling and happy and talking so much more clearly. It's an amazing feeling to know that I made the right choice to get her tubes and not feel guilty for making her go through surgery at such a young age.
Jack and I have been doing great just trying to make it through our 3rd deployment... It's been rough the last 10 days without communication but I understand he has a job to do and I just have to keep on waiting... Not that I enjoy that, but it's what I have to do.
Other than that not a whole lot to say right now... tomorrow starts my real blogging.
Hope everyone has a great night :)
Taking things one day at a time...
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