Once in August, we said, “I do.” Weddings and marriages are funny. How often do you see a celebrity lavishly pour out a million dollars on a wedding, and everyone is oohing and aaahing over it, KNOWING that marriage probably won’t even last. Our wedding was beautiful. Well, I thought so anyway. It was no celebrity affair, but it fit me, with a touch of Alan. Everything was simple and pretty and stuffed to the brim with guests. Before Alan […]
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Jeopardy World Tour App: The Good, The Addictive, & the Ugly Privilege This summer Alan and I found an app we actually both enjoy. Jeopardy World Tour app. We love this thing. Truth be told, Alan keeps saying he’s getting tired of it, but I super hope that’s not true because I just now finally made Tier 8 and have enough tokens to play some bigger cities. We’ve already pulled so many of our friends and family in to this […]
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I love Christmas break. Time off from spelling tests, chauffeur duties, graded papers, packing lunches, and best of all I’m not desperately rushing everyone to not be late…..oh how I love time off. We always spend a few days at my parent’s house and a few days at Alan’s parents’ house, and it’s such a blessing to spend time with them and soak up the rest and good conversation. With people you see on a daily basis, it can be […]
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****This post is part of the series Real Army Wives on storiesofourboys.com. This series chronicles the story of our first deployment, back in 2003.**** Once Alan had been gone for 6 months, and we were finally able to communicate regularly, we found that we began to bicker–even from continents away. We were having newlywed problems, whether we were together or not. Alan was anxious to move us forward towards our goals in the U.S., yet he was stuck in a […]
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****Disclaimer: Links on this site are affiliate links. April collects a small advertising fee when you purchase through links on this website.***** We left Oklahoma full of excitement over finally being together as a married couple. We were ON OUR WAY! Things were looking up for us. Alan and I were finally picking out our first house. Okay, so we were only 21 and 23. Maybe we’d settle for an apartment or a nice townhouse, but either way, it was […]
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For previous posts on our young military marriage, click here. This is part of the series I’m writing called The Real Army Wives. As I mentioned before, Alan was away at training the first 4 months of our marriage, while I finished up my degree at the University of Alabama. I lived in Tutwiler Hall. The funny thing about Tutwiler Hall, which is the freshman girls’ dormitory, is that there were actually 2 different buildings in the state of Alabama named Tutwiler. […]
» Read moreThe news was suddenly intruding into my life. It was more than a channel to flip past. It was affecting me directly. It had always affected me, whether I realized it or not, but now I was in the front of the line of dominoes!!
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I hung the dress on the closet door, safely in its plastic bag, not touching the ground. I could just look at it and smile and think about how much fun I was going to have, going to the ball with my own Prince Charming.
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Pouring into your marriage relationship is so vital to the overall happiness of your whole family. Kids grow up, but hopefully when they have left, you still have a spouse you can love and grow old with.
» Read more2015 was a happy year here, full of it’s own challenges, triumphs, and best of all, adventures. I put together this look back at my 10 most popular posts from the year. By popular, I mean that these are the posts that were read by the largest number of people. First, a few stats from our past year at Stories of Our Boys: You might have read all 156 blog posts. You are reading this from 120 different countries. JenerallyInformed.com was the […]
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