5 things you may want to know about my blog 1. I do not spend hours looking for grammatical errors 2. I homeschool four children and enjoy it all the time (well except when we are behind or they are not listening or life is just not perfect) 3. I love to cook and bake, so does my husband and he cooks dinner probably 75% of the time 4. My husband is a Warrant Officer in the Army and has been in 16 years. 5. I love to organize and straighten and scrapbook and sew and blog. okay one more. If you leave me a comment I am coming back to check out your blog and say hi
Questions for Friday, August 13th: (Special thanks to Pam, Deanna, Julianne, Jill, and Rene for their question suggestions! If YOU would like to be linked in a future 5QF, c'mon over to my community and offer up your best question suggestions!)
1. Have you ever visited another country? I did not visit but I lived in Germany for 3 amazing, wonderful, beautiful years. I loved it, I loved the shopping, the people, the beauty of it. In the town we lived in the police officers did not even carry guns.
2. Where is the strangest place you have ever been? downtown Washington DC. SH do not tell my teachers that we went father into DC then we were supose to on our school trip. Actually I would say the unit my husband is in now is the strangest unit we have ever been in.
3. What is your favorite season? fall, cool but not cold. beautiful. Bonfires and smores, cool walks in the evening. Playing outside for hours. Back to school stuff
4. What one song will always cheer you up? Praise you in the storm
5. What Disney character do you resemble most? Winnie the Pooh, I too have a addiction and can not go a day without it. Shoot, I can not go 12 hours without it
I recieved this award from My Camo Colored Life First let me say her blog name is the coolest ever. So how do you pick someone to give a award to. I would like to say all my readers deserve a award. If you are willing to keep a blog going you deserve a award. But atlas that is not the rules. The rules (and you know I am a rule follower). So this award is going to: Julie the Army Wife (maybe she will teach me how to attach yellow ribbons to my pictures) Army wife, Army mom, Army strong, Family strong (because she went with me to my favorite scrapbook store) Sand Mountain Girl- (can I just tell you her husband has only been in a couple of years and he has already been to Korea without her and is now deployed again) IT's Twinsanity- because the title of her last post was Welcome to suck town Day to Day life of a Army Wife because her husband is away at Ranger school and I am sure they could use the encouragement
I have so much to pour my heart out about. First I am wondering why a month ago I had 500 visitors a day and now I am down to 300. I think I have become boring. So tell me what can I do to encourage you to come back and visit me. I also have a heart to tell you that my husband is home and we are loving it. Not to say that we are without issues because we are. My children totally took advantage of dad because they knew he had not checked back in. At first this caused major arguments. Like hubby why would you let them eat chocolate cake for breakfast or why did you let them destroy the house while I was at a meeting. Then it dawned on me. This is not about my husband this is about my wonderful blessings who totally knew dad was tired and would not catch on that they were destroying the house. Oh and the chocolate cake. Who knows what that is about.
OPSEC- Just a reminder that anytime I speak of my hero I am changing the time and date of the events. If I say he is flying right now it was probably a week ago. I will never give out exact times and dates. Please understand this is for his safety and his units safety and not to mislead my readers. Please help me follow OPSEC by not asking for exact dates or information.
Petrie Soaps and Stuff
All of our soaps are made using milk from our beautiful goats and are made by my husband and I.
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My Hero
Rob and I have been married 15 years. He is my hero. Rob is a Warrant Officer in the army. I so look up to this man. He is brilliant. I could not ask for a better husband or father. He is the spiritual leader of our family. I am so blessed to have this man in my life and thank God for him daily.
Michael
Michael is almost 20 years old. No longer my little boy who needs mom to make his PB&J. He is currently a student at Pensacola Bible College studying to be a Evangelist. He still enjoys video games and hanging out with friends.
Faith
Faith is my beautiful 16 year old. She teaches me daily how to love myself and others. She loves to help with the little kids She loves to sing and dance and would not be caught in public without make up and jewelry. Faith is Faith, she does not try to impress anyone
Hope
Hope is my fiesty 14 year old. Hope loves anything that has to do with animals. She is happiest when she is outside with the goats and chickens. She loves to help in the church nursery. She is as tall as her momma and still growing.
Grace
Grace is 11 years old and is my special blessing. Grace was born at 2.12 pounds and was in a hurry to get here. She has been non stop since then. She loves being the baby and makes sure everyone knows it
Jason
Jason is 8 . His favorite things to do are to help me clean up and to eat. If you ask him what he wants to do he says I want to go grocery shopping.
James
James is and a joy to be around. He loves to snuggle and be told that he is doing something right.
Jacob
My precious newest blessing. Born September.
A.C.U.
A C U is the newest addition to our family. She was a stray and found her way (through a friend) to our home. She is so adorable and the kids were instantly in love with her
Chickens
When we bought our farm house (okay farm is not really true) we decided we would get chickens. My amazing hero agreed to 10 and some how we ended up with 21. I have been told that is called chicken math.
Goats
I have to be honest, I love my goats. If it was up to me I would have them walking around the house. We have two for milking and one for meat. Next year we should have three for milking. Although the thought of my baby girl getting pregnant is hard for me.