We had a wonderful promotion ceremony and reception.  I have pictures which I will post later today or tomorrow.   I have a need to talk about yesterday and the shootings on Fort Hood.  During the reception, one of our friends was called away back to work.  He told us he had to go back…

Ben will be deploying sometime in the near future.  We've been blessed (he would say cursed) with only one short 6 month deployment.  That's not to say that we've been together day after day for years.  The past year has been the longest time we've been together for consecutive days and I was the one…

This one will bring tears.  Have a tissue handy.  It's long but I think for what he sacrificed, the time is nothing.  

Please pray for my dear friend, Jess, as she and her children say goodbye to husband and dad for another deployment.  May God keep Gary safe. 

Beautiful performance.  Absolutely beautiful.  I needed a tissue.

At the Korean War Memorial, there is a wall that states, "Freedom is not free".  All families who have lost soldiers (and all military) members knows this is true.  I also think that everyone who is connected in some way to the military know this as well.  Our soldiers fight for our American ideals with…

The next chapter in our Army saga begins this October.  Ben will be PCSing (Permanent Change of Station) into a new job and this new job deploys him to either Iraq, Kuwait or Afghanistan or all three.  His job description is classified as is his locations.  I won't get into how we ended up at…

'Tis the season, for deployments and redeployments, that is.  Redeployments are soldiers returning home.  Lots of soldiers have left in the past few weeks for the Middle East.  I see the families missing a parent at church each week.  We had a few receive First Holy Communion early so their dads could be there.  It…

Please join me in a prayer of thanksgiving that Emily's husband is home safe and sound from Iraq.  Look at those happy faces.