good-bye hugs, as Alan departed for Afghanistan, for 6 months, 2011 from my Xanga series Fall 2011 We had such a good time with Jennings here! That girl cleaned like crazy. She must’ve run about 7 loads of laundry and 3 loads of dishes. She vacuumed, she straightened, and she even babysat. Now you don’t get too many friends like that in life! And I didn’t ask her to do any of it. It wasn’t all work. We also went […]
» Read moreOur move-out inspection was at 9am this morning. I think they actually all got started around 8:30 am, which was a good thing because it took a while. John David has proved to be quite the handful this week, all by himself, so I decided to take him for a walk and keep him out of the way, at the park, during the big inspection. I’m really glad I did because it was over two hours before Alan was done. […]
» Read moreMy kids are the classic military kids. They have weathered years of deployments. They have said good-bye to so many friends, and they have moved several times in their short lives. This particular move is bigger for the boys, though. This is the first move that Joshua and Caleb will remember for the rest of their lives. Saying good-bye to people that you are close to, people that are like family, is hard. It’s also hard to watch your […]
» Read moreI thought this picture was perfect for that nervous, excited but sad, feeling that you get, just as you are about to move. We are four weeks out from the longest distance, most emotional move we’ve ever made. This will be our eighth move. However, this is the very first move where our little boys are old enough to understand it. We’ve been in the area for five years and in this house for three. We have never lived […]
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