Mil-Spouse Friday Fill-In #28 and A Year Ago Today....

Before I begin my fill-in, please check out my giveaway page above! I'm running a great giveaway for Zippy Doo's, which is a great kids product. This is only third giveaway and I need to get it going here!! Anyway, enough of my shameless plug...on with the best part...Thanks to Wife of a Sailor for another great set of questions!

MIL-SPOUSE FILL-IN:

1. If you were a famous movie star, what types of movies would you star in?

I would probably star in either Romantic Comedy's, Musical or Dance Movies and maybe the Hitchcock-style of movie...real actual suspense without all the annoying gore

2. What is a vacation you would like to take if money were no object?

I would want to go to Europe and do like a two or three week tour of a bunch of countries and really do it right

3. Did you have pets growing up?

I had a dog when I was real little, then we had another dog, which ended up having special needs so we had to give here away *tear*, and then we had brother/sister cats :)

4. What do you do for exercise?

Right now I'm on my second round of p90x and loving it. its one of the only work out programs that you can do at home that I've actually stuck with. I even canceled my gym membership!


5. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received as a MilSpouse?

Get used to change and don't sweat the small stuff. I don't know about you guys but man, sometimes I feel like in my husband's line of work things are always changing....like he is going to deploy, he isn't....he leaves - change of location, i will be able to call, i won't be able to call. Even at home - honey i'm working late, oh wait, i'm coming home early. I'm getting promoted, oh, i'm not....oh they are putting the paperwork through.....and it goes on and on and on, LOL!




Now A Year Ago Today is actually a Thursday hop. I forgot to do it last night and its still technically thursday and I wanted to give a shout out to my girl Heather at Mommy Only Has Two Hands, because I love her and she's awesome!!!


I can't believe it's already been a year, but a year ago my husband was leaving for a deployment to heaven knows where...and when I did find out I couldn't tell anyone! It was crazy. It was the hardest one I've gone through. I think the kids were just at that right age, maybe more my son then my daughter. But he was fully aware of what was going on and he did not handle it well at all. I couldn't leave him anywhere. I remember taking him to Gymboree, and his sister and I go into one class and he goes into music class. I remember walking him into the teacher to explain to her what was going on and that he's been acting out a bit and he i looked down at him and he just burst into tears and said, "don't leave mommy." I started crying, oh heavens it was horrible. Wow, what a total growing experience for me. I was so exhausted I almost didn't really have time to miss him because I was so focused on the kids. Which, in retrospect was actually a good thing. But we survived and here we are!












HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!!! TGIF!!!!

Hooooooooo are you!!!???

Thanks again for Night Owl Crafty for another round of Whooooooo Are you!!!!






1. Do you wear glasses or contacts, if so for how long?
I wear both! I've been wearing contacts since about 1st grade I think and I started wearing contacts about 5th or 6th grade, i can't really remember. I've only recently really embraced my glasses wearing self :)

2. What was your favorite board game as a kid?
I remember really like the game of Life

3. What is a word that you use all the time?
When I was like in 4th to 6th grade my neighbor friend and I were the biggest dorks ever. He and I would play power rangers...but I digress...we used to say "heeheehee pshhhhhhhhh" i have no idea, we were so lame! LOL

4. What is your favorite day of the week?
Any day the husband is actually home, because its different every week, lol

5. Did you graduate high school from the town you grew up in?
I was homeschooled from 8th grade on, but yes we did live in the same town my entire life :) its kinda like a real-life stars hollow, no joke :)

yay!!! for another week of Whoooooo Are You!!! Head on over to Jamie's blog and check it out! There are so many awesome things to see and learn!!!

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It's monday already?

Well, the week is starting over....mine actually began yesterday when the hubster went back to work, boo. I'm on my second week of p90x, my third week of my newest bible study and the hubby and I have started some devotions recently! We are going back to our small group this week and my best friend here is finally coming out of her sick coma so we can resume our SAHM coffee mornings! YAY!!! I also recently discovered that I get K-Love up here in the boonies. I never used to be able to get it and miraculously in the last week or so its been coming in. It couldn't have come at a better time really. The last six months have been really crazy. A lot of bad things have happened, I lost a lot of friendships and a few other things. I tend to dwell on the bad things and lose track of the good things. In this particular situation I really believe that a lot of it was out of my control. I've really been working on accepting responsibility for what I did contribute to the situation, but working past the unknown has really been a struggle for me. Some of the friendships...well frankly I'm not sure why they faded really. I thought they were strong, and maybe they weren't a maybe they were and then weren't....I don't really know. But I've been dwelling on this a lot....letting go without knowing what really happened. And short of calling them up and being like, "So what's the deal, I wanna know what's up," there's not too much else I can do.....So back to K-Love. As I've been dwelling on all these things, I swear that every time I turn the key the song, "You've been Remade," by Tenth Avenue North comes on. If you haven't heard the song here are the lyrics. They've really been speaking to me and I hope they do to you as well:


There's a girl in the corner
With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she's wandered
And the shame she can't hide

She says, "How did I get here?
I'm not who I once was.
And I'm crippled by the fear
That I've fallen too far to love"

But don't you know who you are,
What's been done for you?
Yeah don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

Well she tries to believe it
That she's been given new life
But she can't shake the feeling
That it's not true tonight

She knows all the answers
And she's rehearsed all the lines
And so she'll try to do better
But then she's too weak to try

But don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

'Cause this is not about what you've done,
But what's been done for you.
This is not about where you've been,
But where your brokenness brings you to

This is not about what you feel,
But what He felt to forgive you,
And what He felt to make you loved.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

Mil-Spouse Friday Fill-In #27

1. What do you usually want to know about someone when meeting them for the first time?
I usually wanna know are they married, do they have kids that way I know whether I can bore them with talking about my kids or not, LOL!!

2. Would you rather know everything about your spouse, or be regularly surprised?
Depends on what we're talking about.....I learn little random things all the time and we've been together 11 years! Big things...please no surprises :)

3. If you could live in one city for the rest of your life, where would you live?
Probably my home town where I grew up, family and friends are there and that would be nice...as long as I could travel around still.

4. When you go out of town, what one material thing do you ALWAYS take?

my black Steve Madden peep toe pumps - fancy or casual...always looks good

5. Using no more than 10 nouns, and ONLY nouns, describe yourself.
Why do I do this to myself? Okay, here goes:

Wife, mother, MilSpouse, Patriot, Christian, daughter, sister, reader, crafter

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