The Stupid Deployment

Finishing The Race

July 31, 2009

It is 11:35pm. The boys are asleep and I am stretched out in my big, blue, bloggy chair swiping tears. I feel like a marathon runner who has just made the last turn. The finish line is in sight. Some days, I have sprinted. Some days, I have walked. Some days, I felt like quitting. It’s been a [...]

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Tagged as: Alex, Christ, Cleaning, Deployment, Jeep, McDaddy, Stevie

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Doing The Math

July 31, 2009

It’s been exactly 180 days since McDaddy left for the incredibly long 6-month deployment. Remember the M&M bowls? The bowls that Stevie and Alex made for themeselves and McDaddy that were filled with 182 M&Ms. One M&M for every day that they would be apart? So much has happened since that day. Y’all know that numbers are [...]

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Tagged as: Cooking, inlaws, Math, McDaddy, McResidence, The Saturn Sky

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Shaping Up!

July 16, 2009

SPOILER ALERT: McDaddy, You should totally take yourself to JEEPINWV.com right now or run the risk of seeing the posters the boys made for your homecoming. ———— Dear Deployment: These last two weeks are shaping up to be the L-O-N-G-E-S-T two weeks on record. Evah. The boys and I had fun making posters today and [...]

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It Was Me, Wasn’t It?

July 13, 2009

Just in case you were wondering….. It wasn’t me who stood in my kitchen in April of 2008 sobbing as McDaddy assured me that we would make it through this six-month deployment. It wasn’t me who grieved herself for months thinking about things like the vehicles, the grass, the discipline, the icy driveway, the checkbook and all of the potential [...]

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This Land.

July 4, 2009

If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 McDaddy, I missed you so badly today. As we watched the [...]

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How I Feel

June 3, 2009

This week’s YOU CAPTURE challenge is FEEL. To be honest, at first, I thought that was a little weird. For the life of me, I couldn’t think of anything besides my boys and my hubby that would make me FEEL. And, really, I display pictures of them for just about every YOU CAPTURE challenge: sweet; [...]

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It Don’t GTMO Better Than This

May 27, 2009

Last week, Beth announced that this week’s You Capture challenge would be Family. I was excited about family because my sweet boys and I just so happen to be visiting my sweet hubby who is deployed on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We had an awesome visit and captured some great FAMILY shots. This first picture was captured immediately [...]

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Dear Deployment

May 25, 2009

Dear Deployment: It’s been one of those days. It is Memorial Day and I can’t help but think of all of the folks who have lost their lives serving this great country and all of those who are away from their families, ensuring the freedom and the safety of all Americans. I know that after being able [...]

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Sweet Stuff

May 21, 2009

This week’s You Capture theme is sweet. There couldn’t be a more fitting topic for the pictures that I’ve captured this week. For instance, look at the sweet look on the faces of my fellas. Those sweet smiles are the result of spending 107 days apart. And this sweet capture? It makes me smile. See [...]

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Where Am I?

May 16, 2009

Three guesses as to where I am. (If you happen to know where we are because I’ve told you, please do not ruin it for the rest of the folks playing along at home!) Our “day” started at 2:00 AM We arrived here just after noon. My hot hubby is here. It is hot here. [...]

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Tagged as: Alex, Because I Like To Ramble, Deployment, McDaddy, Stevie

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