military community
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The Magic of Home
Eric and I scanned the last of our earthly belongings comparing it with the quickly deteriorating space in the truck and had to make some fast decisions. “The chairs are going, aren’t they?” I asked, knowing full well the answer. “‘Fraid so,” he said. I turned away when I saw him briskly carry the happy… Continue reading
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Kindness
It hasn’t been a particularly rough day. Or week. My son started preschool and it’s been fun and exciting. We’ve been running errands and doing this and that. No big deal. Today Hannah had her 2 year well-child check up. She’s growing like a weed and is in the 80-90th percentiles for height and weight.… Continue reading
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Pre Deployment Blahs
Tonight we went to a pre-deployment “fair”. Basically it’s some tables set up in the base chapel and you go from table to table where they give you little handouts, phone numbers, and support contacts for “dealing with deployment”. Ugh. This is the part of military life I detest. The information is needed, but I… Continue reading
Life and Other Stuff 