Category Archives: Deployments

The Worst Part is Not Knowing

This month marks a year that Matt has been off active duty orders and home with us. He left on orders when Riley was five weeks old. Until he moved back in last July, I took care of Riley all by myself, all the time. I had no idea what it was like to have…

Flashback Friday {Iraq 2006}

  This week Hubby picked the flashbacks, these are all from his first Iraq deployment in ‘06. I’ll hand over the blogness to him now  {My first emo pic}  {Those are re-enlistment pictures that I burnt the day before I came home, which sounds dramatic but it had all my information on it and paper…

The Sweetest Thing

This photo makes me both happy and sad…

“Sleep When the Baby Sleeps”

All my life I have been the kind of girl that sleeps in anytime I get the chance. I’m not lazy, I just don’t like being tired! And I don’t think it’s ever been a problem, I’ve never missed anything important or anything like that… even The View doesn’t come on until eleven o’clock. So…

Blue Monday

Yep, another bad day in this stupid deployment. Things were going seemingly well until, don’t laugh, I got to Wal-Mart. Riley had fallen asleep in the car so I carefully transferred her from car to cart without waking her and headed back to the vacuum aisle where I had planned on selecting a vacuum and…

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