Nothing makes a louder statement that the Christmas season has begun than a fresh cut pine tree in our living room. Cutting down our own Christmas tree has become one of the most loved family traditions. As a matter of fact, we love it so much I think you should try it too. Don't know of any tree farms in your area? That's okay, there is this really great site called ...
Deployment Day #29
After the excitement of yesterday, there is so much to be thankful for today. As we approach this holiday season I realize that even though things are tough around here my life is better than I deserve. I'm truly thankful for all the prayers and support we've received from people both online and offline. We could not make it through this time without it. My husband has been deployed to the ...
Deployment Day #28
Today we headed into DC to visit my sister-in-law and family. They are in town on vacation and we were headed to the Natural History museum for the afternoon. The five youngest kids and I hopped on the metro and headed downtown. About two stops into our ride Cora started doing the potty dance. I had just taken her to the bathroom before we left so I figured she could hold it. One stop later ...
Deployment Day #27
Communication is still very spotty. Sometimes I think it would be better to have no communication than the two minute phone calls that consist of me yelling... "What?" "Huh?" "I can't hear you!" I say that, but even a minute of yelling is better than nothing at all. We got a post card today. My eleven year old read it aloud to everyone else. As soon as he got to the last line he ...
Deployment Day #26
I keep getting up earlier and earlier in hopes to catch up on everything that needs to get done around here. Of course no matter how early I get up, there's always something that comes up that makes it impossible to catch up. I attempted to make more progress on my stair project, and am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We moved the television upstairs to the family room ...
Deployment Day #25
Today was a busy. I wanted to get a Christmas tree, but I couldn't find a place that had them unwrapped on the log. I ran errands with the littlest and we all worked together to clean out the garage. Let's just say that cleaning out the garage with seven kids isn't my favorite thing to do on a Saturday, but it needed to be done, so we all worked together to do it. In the end it wasn't ...
