Wow! It has been almost a year to the date since I wrote my last piece. So many things have happened since then. Joel started, graduated, and has maintained his peanut therapy dose. He has his 9 months post therapy appointment in a few days, and we are praying for even lower numbers. Finding firsthand …
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Catching Up
Here we are, almost 2 months since my last blog post. Time really does fly and in true to form military life, the highs and lows come barreling at us even faster. Shortly after I last published, Joel had his maturity test with the allergist and passed! He will be starting Peanut OIT (oral immunotherapy) …
HoCo: Military Style
And what a homecoming it was! If you read my last piece, I absolutely had to bust out all of the back up plans to the back up plans and then some, but it all came together even better than I could have planned. It was a two-day process getting us all back together as …
Preparing for Reintegration
You read that right! Andre is coming home. A lot has happened in the past few weeks and it has been a roller coaster of emotions, but I am happy to report that my hubby is currently in quarantine on U.S. soil!!! This is standard procedure for Service Members coming back from overseas right now. …
And Then Our Countdown Stopped
There we were just a handful of weeks away from this deployment being over – momentum strong and hopes high, the finish line just coming into sight. And then things starting to feel a little concerning with all of the COVID-19 information coming out. But I just keep telling myself, “Once Andre is home, we …
Waiting to Write
I’ve had so much on my mind lately and so many things I could’ve written about, but I’ve been waiting. Waiting for news. Waiting for answers. Just waiting. And not patiently. It hasn’t even been a calm waiting, it’s been full of worry. Which is a big waste of time and effort. So now I …
Summer Daydreams
It’s so snowy here, and I feel like the snow just won’t stop. I shouldn’t complain because the snow in Iowa is NOTHING compared to the snow we would get in upstate New York, but I don’t have slopes to ski on here. So I’m going to travel back in time and write about a …
Worry
Erma Bombeck says it best, “Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” If you have spent any time near a television, newspaper, radio, or on social media, you are well aware of the current unrest going on in the Middle East. As the wife of …
“Livin’ On A Prayer”
It’s been a minute since I’ve been able to sit down and write. Christmas is knocking on our door and, as you can imagine, it has been so busy. The “missing Daddy” feelings have been pretty intense for both the kids and myself, so I’ve been trying to create as much magic as possible from …
A Dojo Romance
When people learn that Andre is from Jamaica, I’m often asked, “How does a gal from Iowa meet a guy from Jamaica?” And my response is, “At a Mixed Martial Arts dojo in upstate New York!” Pretty likely, right?!?! Believe it or not, that’s exactly how we met. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the …
Chronicles of a Military Wife 