There have only been two days during the deployment where I was done. Today was one of them. Today involved a nasty sinus headache, two tow trucks, and a few other things. At one point I handed my daughter's boyfriend cash and some gift cards and asked him to take all the children out of the house. He took them all to Chipotle and the bookstore. I had no idea if he could even handle them ...

I spent the last two days in Tampa. As some of you know I work from home and one of the companies I work for is Valpak. You know, the blue envelope people. I spent the last two days not being cold as I shared my knowledge of the web and social media with their sales team. Work trips are good and bad. If I'm on a work trip I work a lot. Usually 12-15 hour days because I wake up early to ...

So today I managed to fit in a trip to the dentist (3rd time in a month- that's what I get for having all these kids!), all our school work, picked up the house, and the kids ate something other than cereal for dinner. I feel like I just ran a half marathon (not that I know what that feels like). I'm tired, but I'm glad I powered through. Dentist parking lot selfie! I LOVE our ...

I woke up feeling like I could possibly be getting sick again, but I also felt like myself for the first time in forever. Since it was a yucky rainy day I immediately made a list of all the things we could do, inside and also made a mental note to keep plodding through with the laundry. (Another 7 loads today) I was pretty ambitious with my list, but surprisingly we got through everything ...