Meeting people on an Army post is much like meeting people in college. Everybody always has the same conversation. In college, it’s about your hometown, your major, and whether or not you’re involved with anyone. In the Army, it’s about the soldier’s MOS (occupation), where you’re from, and how you and your soldier decided to [...]
Archive for the ‘Marital bliss’ Category
16 Sep
*swoon*
First, a little background:
Knight sort of lost his job early last spring when the company he was working for sort of began something of a slow death. He has career plans in the form of joining the Army (hopefully by the end of this month, which I am very excited about, but that’s not the [...]
30 Apr
A post that I didn’t intend to write
I had no real intention of posting anytime soon. It’s the end of the school year, which usually means I’m stressed to the max. I probably am stressed, but am too busy to notice. I had sort of written off blogging for the next few weeks.
However, I found myself with some time on my hands [...]
2 Jan
Happy New Year!
Last night was soooooo fun! It was exactly like the last three or five New Year’s Eves that Knight and I have spent together. My last thought was something like this: I looked at the clock and thought, “If I could just stay awake for another hour and a half, we could ring in the [...]
7 Jun
More on the ring, and it’s not pretty
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on the last post about time-outs. Fortunately, I haven’t had to deal with the situation since I wrote it (figures!), but I’m sure it will come up again.
We are now the house of the head-cold. Jet brought something home last week; I took him to the doctor last Tuesday. [...]
31 May
No, really, I’m married!
I’m not wearing my wedding ring these days. I love the ring (and my husband!), but I’ve started having some sort of reaction to it.
The inside of the ring has “I love you” cut out of the band underneath the diamonds, which is the reason why Knight bought it. Something is going on, [...]
24 May
What is love?
Love is:
prying off the baseboard under the bathroom sink to treat for cockroaches after reading your wife’s blog post about squicking and shuddering over them
doing your dead-level best to find the best job that will meet your family’s needs as well as your own personal needs
scooping vomit out of the car seat after your son [...]
