Here it was… year 3 of being in Japan for Thanksgiving while my husband was sailing the seas. The previous two years had NOT been what I had hoped for or wanted. Between the purple potatoes and the McDonalds cheeseburger I was struggling to find a way to be positive. I honestly didn’t realize just …
It was our second year in the country and, much to my dismay, it wouldn’t be our last. After the first Thanksgiving had been such a bust, I decided to try and grow some thankfulness within me. We decorated the house with handmade preschool fall decorations – handprint turkeys and all. We talked about the …
We had moved to our new overseas duty station approximately 6 months ago. In that time, Keith had been deployed twice, my grandmother began her rapid decline in health while my mom was visiting us, I had made 3 trips across the ocean with 2 girls ages 3 and under, I had made a trip …
There we were… at VBS. I was a leader (wrangler) of a small group of kids. I barely had control. And there was my kid. LOSING HER MIND. I had asked her to go play the game for rec. You would’ve thought I had poked her eyes with hot coals with the way she was …
Around the beginning of the summer our son came up to me and asked if he could have “a pish”. I said, “a what?” and he replied “a pish” while showing me the sign for fish. We spent the next few minutes discussing the logistics of his request. He had all the answers… he even …
I heard myself utter the impassioned plea, “Can you please just do what I am asking withoutoffering a better way to do it?” I was exhausted both physically and mentally; drained from the effects of raising 2 small people While my husband was deployed (again). And we were living overseas in a country I hadn’t …