Six Flags

The day before 2010 was over me and the rest of them when to Six Flags. On the way there our truck broke down next to an antique store. We thought that the piece that was broken was in the glove box, Momma looked but didn't see one. So we all got out of the truck. Momma and Skippy went and looked around in the store while me and the guys waited for the tow truck. After a while Techie got bored so instead of sitting around doing nothing, he looked in the glove box again, and what do you know he found it! So they started working on that, I kept looking for the tow truck and the girls kept looking around in the store. Finally the guys fixed it so I went to look for the girls. As I was going in one door they were coming out another. So as I was looking around for them, they were talking to G.I.Jack. So I finally come out and we all get back in the truck. Then G.I.Jack calls and tells the tow truck guy that we fixed it. A few miles later the truck broke down again! This time we didn't have the part so the tow guy came and towed us off to a near by Ford dealer. So we waited a few hours and they drove us to a Chili's and we had some lunch. Then we drove back waited a little bit more and they fixed it. So by the time we got to Six Flags it was already 6:00 and most of the rides were closed. We still got to ride a lot of the rides though. We decided not to stay for the fire works at 1:00. But on the way home we saw some other guys shoot off some of their own fire works. Then we finally got home and the first thing we all did was go up stairs and go to sleep. The End.

My friend

My friend, he's many things. He's fun, he likes to play video games, he introduced me to castle crashers (game), he's awesome! He's going to be moving very soon. He has a sister, and luckily her and Skippy hang out so they don't keep messing with us while we're killing zombies. Me and him went and saw Megamind together a while back. I'm going to miss playing video games with him, plus he's the only good competiton around here! P.S. don't tell G.I.Jack over there I said that!

Sunday nights...

What is it about the TV being on that makes me nutty? Maybe because I don't have the patience to sit there and watch it. Especially during an NCIS maration Sunday. Ready to watch Worst Cooks in America and then take over yet another Monday.

Today I am thankful that I cleaned my office so that it could get filled with boy scout gear. GRrrrrrr!

Blessings...

My husband and my children, even when they all team up against me. I am still the medicine giver. Being the CinC of Household Six ROCKS!!!

Although, I would really like to understand why when GI Jack gets sick that the thinks he makes him somewhat less masculine if he goes to the doctor.

-stress = +Attitude

I'm blessed to have those little stress relievers like bike riding, hanging out with friends, and listening to music.

Double Blessing... (Because there are so many)

I'm thankful for a home in which we can live and rejoice in.

I'm also thankful for a comfy place to sleep every night.

Some people don't have these things... but we do and I feel blessed.

Cleaning House...

Sometimes its the things that you least want to do, that end up being the most productive. Like cleaning house... We now have a nice clean house so that our goals can be more easily accomplished.

My blessing of the day

I'm thankful for my Friends. That invite my to there birthday party!!!

Chores

As my school today I have to talk about chores.

First of all there is kitchen were you have to do dishes and ?????. There is all so Pet Care were you have to feel and water all for animals and clean up messes. There is bath rooms and litter box and trash to. My favorite is P.C. The worst is K. Well that pretty much all so bye......

What i love about my house

Well its two stories, I've always liked that. I get my own room after twelve years of sharing a room with Techie. The best part in my opinion is that we don't have to pay as much money. The Army pays a lot of utility's if you don't go over the limit, if you do you'll only have to pay the small bit you went over.

Chores

At my house instead of giving the kids chores randomly, we have P.C. Pet Care, B.L.T. Bathrooms Litter box Trash, and K. Kitchen witch the kids alternate every Sunday. Also whoever is on P.C. gets front seat whenever Techie isn't driving.

If I wanted whine, I'd go to the Class Six.

I would love to remind a few wives that the Army is their husband's wife, you are but his mistress. Being an Army Wife is tough, I would  never dare to make light of that, but seriously, whine doesn't help.
There are a few things that tick me off, too. Like my Techie turning 16 in March, yet again, without his Dad around. We miss him on birthdays, alot. He wasn't here for Gamer Boys this past year and he won't be here this year either. He probably won't be around for mine. It's life, you make the best of it and you move on. It's not about what they miss, but the precious hours that they do get to spend with you that matter. A mistress understands that, a wife does not. It's all about perspective, it's all in how you look at it and make the best of it.
I do not posess a crystal ball that lets me know when they are coming home. The 1SGT nor the CDR call me and give me a heads up on when they are having final formation. I get my information from my soldier, just like the rest of us. Our rule here is that most nights of the week, we eat dinner at 7 pm, whether he is here or not. We do school from 9-3, whether he is here or not. We don't watch TV until after dinner, whether he is here or not. I need a routine, my kids need a routine, the Army - has no routine.
Suck up and ruck on. I read a quote the other day that said, "Embrace the suck." Do you have an option? Honestly? I don't think so. It sucks, I know it sucks, you know it sucks, but it is what it is. When my soldier walks in the door I choose to embrace him for the moments that I have him. I plan impromptu date nights because if I try to pencil them in on the calendar I am sure to be disappointed. If we look at each other and realize that we can run away, for an hour, an evening, a weekend, we do it. I can either bash him with my whine, or I can allow him to crawl in the bed next to me and live in a moment of peace without anyone barking orders at him. As I do that, he is more open to embrace me back and allow me to pour out my anxiety on his chest and to wipe away my tears when I have a moment of overwhelming weakness.
I choose to be his mistress and his lover.

My blessing of the day

I'm thankful for a dad that even tho has school work. He always has time for us.

Love you daddy.

My Joy...

Is my children. They bless me with their brutal honesty and their love.

Ruth 1:15-1:16

“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

I just love this verse. first of all Ruth wanted to just keep moving forward. Even tho her sister stop. Its like the trial to god. Just because your friends or family stop moving toward god. You shouldn't stop. I love how much energy Ruth puts in to it just for her to keep moving. This is one of the many reasons I think Ruth is just so awesome. God thought she was just so awesome. He put her in the bible.

What I love about my family

Well first there's G.I.Jack, he's the one in the Army. He almost always has a hard day at work but he almost always plays COD Black Ops with us. Then there is Momma. She's the boss when ever G.I.Jack is in the field, witch is most of the time. Anyway back to Momma, She is a computer addict, she is very good at teaching, she's good at making plan's but not maintaining them. Next theirs Techie, he's good with electronics, he loves to ride his bike, he's also good at playing his music so loud that Momma can hear it through the floor. Next is Skippy. She is the baby one of the family. She can be nice one second then she can go crazy. Our lives are just that interesting.

There no matter what...

'At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”' - 1 Kings 18:27

This right here makes me so thankful for a God that is always there, never busy, and never tired. To know that at any point in time i can call upon God, the real God, and know he will be there.

Let there be light!

Genesis 1:3 "And God said ""Let there be light."" and there was light." To me this mean's God is giving us happiness and hope and everything good in and out of our world.

Organized Chaos...

I'm so thankful for all the people and things in my life that help me stay organized... I have no clue where I'd be without them.

Blessing of the Day...

Today, I am thankful for pasta and that God is continuing to work reconciliation into my heart.

My blessing of the day

I'm thankful for awesome parents. That let you go on summer camping trips with your youth group. Thank Momma and Daddy. ( theirs nothing wrong about calling your dad daddy)

Ft. G - One of Many Theme Songs

The Call...

As I was sitting in PWOC this morning and one of the leaders was praying God showed me a new facet of his love and provision. I had never considered being a "soldier's wife" a ministry position. Not that I didn't minister in that position, the concreteness of the position just never hit me like it did this morning. What does it take to be a "soldier's wife"?
I think that marriage is a ministry no matter what your husband or wife's occupation. The call of a "soldier's wife" though adds a few layers that in my opinion others don't deal with. Being Mom and Dad, coordinating births with training schedules and understanding that God's timing is always perfect. So many women share this ministry with me, and somehow we all have to learn to lean on God in the hard times, pre-deployment, during deployment, R&R and even post-deployment. We are all somewhere in the cycle and I find it very comforting that all though I can feel isolated, as I open up to these new people in my life, that I am not alone in this crazy cycle.
So today, as part of my Blessing Byte, I am thankful for God's calling on my life to be a "soldier's wife", among other positions that he has given me. Today I honor the military and the call that it has on my entire family. Yes, the Army frustrates me to no end, but God uses that frustration to teach me more about myself, to strengthen my need on him and to show me that I am more resilient than I give myself credit for.

What I love about my youth group

We play a game as soon as we start. Then we worship. Then they tell us a really cool true story about themselves that has a really cool moral to it. Then we break-off into study groups of high school girls, high school boys, middle school girls and middle school boys. Then we can go back to the main room and buy some snacks for fifty cents!

What I think about my life

I'm not in to all this Army stuff. If you ask me we were a lot happier when we weren't in the Army. Yes I know before we were self employed and didn't have a lot of money in are pocket, but I still like our old little bubble life. I'm not saying I don't like it here but I liked it their a little bit better there. On the other side if we didn't move here I wouldn't have such a great Puppy,and a awesome youth. Still I miss my friends. I could never stop loving them. I just feel like a misfit here. No one on my street is my age. Other than one but she is not really a good friend like I'm looking for. I have a awesome friend at my youth. She is just a bit to quiet for me tho. When I go to the park by my house their is sometimes girls my age,I walk up to them and they ask me were I go to school. I say I'm home schooled. Its quiet for a few seconds. Then they looked at each other and look at me and asked in a quiet little pitiful voice I guess you don't have any friends do you? It happens every time. I do get a little mad. All my friends where I used to live were all home schooled. Here barley no one is..... but as my momma always says *Put on your big girl panties and deal with it* I know I'm 11 and all but I cried when my dad was gone for 2 and a half weeks I don't know about all this year stuff. I would be a teen when he gets back. I still love to curl up with him and take a nap.

Thank goodness...

I'm thankful for a father that, no matter how tired he is, still finds time to play video games with his kids.

My blessing of the day

Friends and Family,My Puppy.

What I love about my Dog

First of all you should know that she is a Great Dane/Australian Shepard which is awesome! She's loyal, she's cuddly, she's the friend i can always go to, she's lovable, and she can be used as a big pillow!

Pre-Deployment War

Okay, I am the type that I have to have something to focus my attention on, something that I can attack when I am feeling overwhelmed by emotions and feeling out of control because I have no control over the Army or what they dictate to my family.
So I have declared war on our debt and our bills. I hate balancing the checkbook, with a passion. For years the checkbook and bills incited so much fear in me that I would literally have to leave the house while GI Jack worked on them. With the transition back into full time military mode it just makes more sense for me to take on that role. I have a notebook that I write down all of my bills in and balance them between the first and the fifteenth pay checks. I currently run at 26% of our income goes towards utilities and bills. I am working to get that number lower and lower. As I am able to pay off debts, that will decrease and hopefully by the time GI Jack gets back from his deployment I will be able to say that the only bills I have to pay are utilities.
After being self-employed for so many years and not being able to use a workable budget because we lived so feast or famine, being able to know what is coming in on a month basis has set me up for success. I am working on the rest of our budget, what I need for savings, groceries, gas, and the little incidentals that happen in every family.
I am praying for the job that I applied for. One, because I would love it and two, because it would help me in this fight. The money that I make with my direct sales business goes for "Mad Money", for example, if the kids and I want to go camping, or maybe head home for a couple of weeks.
Right now, I am also saving money to send my kids to a youth summer camp this summer. Sending 3 kids to camp is a pretty penny. It's something that they want to do, I am working on it. The deserve it. I know that God will provide.

Blessing Byte

I am thankful for the ability to carve time out to just sit with my kids and enjoy a night of Worst Cooks in America and Iron Chef, our little Sunday night ritual. It just sets the tone for the rest of the week.

Rumor has it that I might see my husband for a few hours tonight... it's been a long two weeks.

Thankful for phone calls from new friends and messages from long-time ones that seem to keep me moving in the right direction.

My Life

Well where do I start? How about my best Friends. I have two. One in NC and one in TX. The one in NC has been my friend forever. Well not FOREVER. It really my moms fault I'm friends with her. Me and Her were in girl scouts together. We didn't really talk to each other. Are moms were friends. They made us spend the night at my house and ever since we have been friends. I still Skype her all the time .My TX best friend I met at my youth. She is quiet. Well time to talk about my self. I'm a 11 year old girl. I have two older brothers no sisters. Three Dogs and a Cat. One of the dogs the puppy is mine I got her for Christmas. She loves me. She is just so cute. shes not what you would think of if someone says puppy. She is big. She is sick right now I woke up to a sore throat and puppy puke on my blanket. I just washed yesterday. most owners would git mad and freak out about it. I just love on her and say it ok. she curls up beside me and falls asleep. Are other dog are a bit ???????. They try to eat and even the cat eats her food so I have to git on to them.

Acta non verba - Deeds, not words.

Now while I am the Techie of the family, you may expect me to enjoy sitting at my computer typing up long stories, but you're wrong. I'm not doing this for the joy of writing, i prefer to do stuff that gets written about. I'm not doing this to make people sad for me as i write about the hard times in my life. I'm doing this simply to show people who read this (like you) how i feel about the things that go on in my life. Now I am a military child and I too wish to go into the military one day, most of you would now say that military must be my life. It's not though, it's merely a part of it. Being only a sophomore in high-school, school is still a very large part, I'm also in scouting, church youth, and i always have friends, my time is limited and my motivation even more so. Yet I press on looking forward to the outcome of what I do. So here on this blog, don't expect it to just be my emotions and thought, expect to hear about things I do, the things I see, and maybe a little emotion.

Hola!

Times they are a changin' here at Ft. G. Training schedules, cold weather and an new puppy seem to dominate my daily life. This is a homeschool project for the kids and I, somewhere for us to express ourselves and what is going on with our lives. We all process differently, but we wanted somewhere to get it all out. What is said on here, is just us, expressing our views on our lives. We will attempt to not judge ourselves or others too harshly.
We all love Jesus, each other, and the soldier that we love. We are a cohesive team, family, and we just thought this would be a great place to share our thoughts and emotions. Not really a day in life kind of thing... but, maybe, sometimes. Due to OPSEC and trying to keep our family safe, we don't mention our location or our names. If you know us, keep it to yourselves. We welcome you to comment, just try to keep our safety in mind.
Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy our lives.

Welcome to Fort G

(Before i begin this i have to tell you I'm not really good at this kind of stuff, but i hope to get better!)Life began at Fort G by my Dad getting back into the Army. We moved back and forth a few times until we got here. Life at Fort G is very interesting, we have whiny Army wives,we home school, we have youth, we have Army men who need their heads pulled out of their butts, but most of all we have each other. We have ups and downs, we have side to sides, we even have loops! So i hope you enjoy our lives as much as we have fun living it! When we first got here we couldn't believe every thing this place had! there was bowling, Chinese food, D.Q., Burger King, McDonald's, Ryan's, and a lot more but i won't bore you with all that.We were looking around and we realized, we're not in Kansas anymore Toto. We are a Army family now and we need to start helping others so they can help others. We need to teach the poor man how to fish instead of just giving him a fish! We hear artillery going of in the distance as the Army is testing them to see if they work. My Dad pretty much drives a tank as his job! He might be leaving within five or six month's! Going off to get some bad guys just to protect his family and country! for those of you who don't like us fighting other country's you should try to survive when people are shooting at you! would you protect you and your family? or would you just let them get you and your family? if you answered protect your family your right. if you answered let them get you then you are a coward who wouldn't protect his family when they needed you most!