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After All
My husband came home from Afghanistan on New Years Eve! This deployment lasted 353 days apart total, lasting from December 29, 2010 to December 31, 2011. It was one long year! My husband’s…
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Grandma’s Amazing Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe
Our cranberry sauce is my Grandma's recipe - and it's actually SAUCE! The best cranberry sauce EVER!
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“ENJOY BY”
ENJOY BY JAN 06 2012 It was just a little phrase stamped across the top of the jug of apple cider that I pulled out of the fridge – but it caught my…
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Learning to Treasure the Little Childhood Moments
Since Russ went back to Afghanistan after RnR, I’ve really been struggling. Struggling with what? Well, just…everything. I think that 90% of the time I feel utterly exhausted and overwhelmed. There’s a song…
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The Darius Rucker concert that we will remember forever
My husband and I have extremely different tastes in music. I like country and operatic pop. He likes 80s-90s rock and trance and a bunch of other random stuff. He likes to poke…
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Date Day with Mommy!
"Sometimes, when I am feeling like I need to escape the kids, I find that really what I need is just the opposite! What I need is to CONNECT with my children -…
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“So how was your RnR?”
This is the question that I’ve been hearing a lot this week! And it’s a good question. But it’s one that in some ways I don’t know how to answer with a quick…
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Red, White, and Blue
This post is something I meant to post a while back and never got around to it. Living this military lifestyle definitely has it’s challenges…it’s hard! But it also gives our family some…
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pink ribbons, camouflage, and one happy baby boy!
Monday, September 5th, 2011…what most people knew as Labor Day. What I knew is that it was the day my husband was coming home for mid-tour leave!!! I woke up at 3am totally…