Blog Realization

I came to the realization today that I am way more exciting when he's deployed...

I cannot blog about reading books. I read nearly 25 during the deployment. Since his return...a big fat goose egg. Now I lost track of how many fitness magazines and journals I have read, but I miss my leisurely reading.

And those crazy stories about me attempting to "fix" the house....I got nothing. When your hubby is Mr. Handyman, the only thing I need to do is stay out of the way and bring him a tool when he asks.

No more crazy puppy stories. For the most part, they have behaved themselves since his return and to my surprised...stayed reasonably healthy. No surgeries, broken legs, kennel cough, or scratched eyes.

I did enjoy cooking and baking these elaborate dishes. Now...I just want to get dinner done as soon as possible after racing home from work.

DO NOT GET ME WRONG, I love life and you bet I am knocking on wood as far as house problems or puppy problems, but my life is quite boring. Between working, cleaning, cooking, paying bills, puppies, and sleeping, I do not have time for much else. And I am struggling to find blog worthy stories about coming home from work and vacuuming up husky hair five times a week.

Yesterday my best friend called and asked what I was doing, my response, "I just got home from work and now I am making dinner, paying bills and watching the news" He told me that if he called me in thirty years, I would probably be doing the same thing, haha.

Oh well. I am not giving up that easy, I will continue to search for things to blog about that actually might catch your attention.

Gifts from Afghanistan

We received all of his tough boxes from Afghanistan yesterday. This morning he bribed me with donuts to help him sort through it all. I even allowed this ACU bomb to explode in my kitchen.

He kept repeating to the girls, "Who is suprised mommy is not freaking out yet? I am, I am"

I think I am surprised too.

My Life in Pictures

If the past three weeks went as fast as any three weeks during the year long deployment...let's just say time would fly by a lot faster. I do not know where the time has gone. Its been three weeks since his homecoming ceremony. I've neglected my blog and figured the only way for me to catch up would be through pictures.


I still have been doing a lot of this since his return, actually probably more of it:



They added quite a bit of responsibility in the past month, which means I open a lot more. Waking up at 4:45am most mornings results in a lot of this:

Since I was a "good little wife", he bought me one of these. And let's just say my life has not been the same. Best buy ever:

And you would think he would be sick of his company, after spending a year with just them, but oh no, we do everything together. Including picking up some of them at their 2am Homecoming Ceremony:

On Wednesday we celebrated one year of martial bliss. Of course the first year gift is paper and my hubby knows me better than anyone. Nashville Predators hockey tickets. Three rows back, center ice and not to mention the game ended in a shootout. The most exciting thing in sports:

I've been so tired lately and might have been a little careless with the pill. So a few days ago, I swore up and down I was with child. This morning, I saw this:

Life is good, but so busy. The funny thing is, if you asked me what I've been busy with, I would answer besides work, spending almost every waking moment with him. Its a good kind of busy, a wonderful kind actually.

My Reintegration.

His family joked with me the day after his arrival that I should create a powerpoint slide with my OWN reintegration brief for him. After a week of having him back in my life, I am beginning to think its a great idea.

Slide 1: Dog Poop

Just because I did not pick it up every week while you were gone does not mean you do not have to pick it up every week. I had a lot on my plate with taking care of the house all by my lonesome. There are now two of us which means we can now do twice as much so you will now pick up the dog poop at least once a week

Slide 2: Feeding the Dogs

Our third dinner at home, we were all sitting at the kitchen table together. I glanced over at him and saw him handing big pieces of chicken to Daisy and Dakota. I almost fell off my chair.

WE DO NOT FEED THE DOGS TABLE FOOD! But if we do, we place it in their bowl, not hand it to them from the kitchen table. This creates bad habits.

Slide 3: Dishes

Once you are done eating your food, we place whatever dishware in the sink. I do not like playing "Guess where your cereal bowl is" every morning. One morning, no joke, found it on top of his dresser.

Slide 4: Cooking

I cooked for myself for one year. It might take me awhile to start cooking again for two, let alone cook anything besides in the microwave. Be patient, I am trying.

Slide 5: The Sheets

I did get use to sleeping diagonal in our bed and having all of the sheets. I might (will most definitely) steal the sheets for at least the first month. Again, be patient, I am trying.

Slide 6: Dirty Clothes

Nothing drives me crazy like dirty clothes all over our bedroom floor. Since you are being so patient with me, I will be patient with you. I will allow you to throw your clothes wherever you like for the next few weeks. You were in a war zone and you are my hero, therefore I will ignore the clothes...for a little while then its Laundry Nazi time.

Slide 7: Survial

You might find a few, or many, things you do not or will not approve of that I did to either 1) fix things for the time being or 2) get by. I am apologizing for those now. It will simply my means of survial.

Slide 8: You

I absolutely love having you home. I love waking up to my best friend and love being able to talk to you about anything and everything every single day. I just wanted to remind you in case I sounded a little crazy in the previous 7 slides :)