Please Slow down

Time is ticking away if only I could stop the hands of time!

There is no goodbyes because goodbye is forever; it is see you later - cause he will come back.

The hours separate us, but they bring us together again!

"Dear Deployment, I hate you as much as I love him."

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be. ~Author Unknown

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!

Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson

Okay sorry about that but the time is here and days are going down so that was just my way of expressing how I feel about it.

Oh, yeah this site will become a Deployment journal so I hope you enjoy and feel free to bookmark and read and give encouragement and comments cause 12 month (if not longer is a long time)

Fancy Nancy

So this past weekend was my birthday getaway/ a marriage retreat though Jeremy's work. I found out this weekend is I am not a "Fancy Nancy". For yall that don't know what Fancy Nancy is, it is this cute childrens' book about a little girl that is always wanting things to be fancy and nice. For yall with little girls, I have these books!
We got to go to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and stay at the Marriott Resort Hotel. The hotel was very nice right on the beach, even though the only thing you saw from our room was the apartments next to it. Nice hotel but with all that fancy stuff you had to PAY for internet. $13.00 for 24 hours!!! I would have rather go to Best Western and walk the block to the beach and have free internet. Yes, I bought the computer with me on a getaway. I am additied... no not really. I can't sleep at night sometimes espically in hotels so it gives me something to do when I can't sleep. That was the other thing, nice hotel does not mean nice cable. They only had like 20 channels and no TV land or Nick at Nite, or Disney Channel. That is the stuff we normally watch to go to sleep. Anyways, the food was ok. I don't like places where you can't chose what to eat and on the table is like 20 pieces of silverware. Yes I know how you do it, salad fork, dinner, dessert, soup...Yeah I know all that. I just don't like doing it! LOL! Then the food was touching. It was made to look like something on Top Chef or Hell's Kitchen. Mashed potatoes and the gravy on the bottom with the chicken laying on top of it. So you know me I had to pull it apart. Yes and I was sick of water that was all they had to drink, water or tea! So that night we left after the first meeting and went to walmart to get some snacks and coke. Then Saturday we spend all morning in class which was good. It talks about ways to communicate and 5 things for love and such like that. Then that afternoon it is what they call "date night". So knowing us we are not fancy but since it was my birthday and we were on Hilton Head we decide someplace semi-nice. We went to Carrabba's because I LOVE Italian. It was nice. Next to the Carrabba's was a minutura golf place and it looked nice and empty. So we went and played around of golf. It was nice cause we had the place all to our self. And of course we played Deal or No Deal and won Maddie a Spongebob as a gift. That was about it for our weekend.
So yeah it was nice to stay in a 5 star hotel that over looks the ocean but I am a country girl that enjoys cheap and cheaper. So overall it was a fun weekend!

Oh, what did Jeremy get me for my birthday.... Twilight Scence It game, tickets to the movie, and season 2 &4 of Reba! (I already had season 1&3).

Oh and if you have a little girl you must read "Fancy Nancy"!

Home Again

So Jeremy is back home and has been at home for about a week now but I just been so busy to stop and update on here laterly. Sorry School work is keeping me busy and my neighbor started working so I been babysitting too. BUSY as a Bee! This is a busy month but I will get though it! LOL! So Jeremy made it though NTC and enjoy it. So I just thought I would post some beautiful pictures of his trip there!


Jeremy on top of the M88

A far view of Jeremy on the M88.

The beautiful Mountains and the DUST

All Geared Up!

(sorry I could not get the picture to flip)

A Beautiful Sunrise

The living area the first week

We did IT!

YAY! We did it, we did it!
Okay I will stop singing Dora... that is the song she sings at the end when they get to where ever they were going! But we did it, or should I say I did it.
I made it though October, as I speak Jeremy is on a birdie somewhere over the US on his way back to beautiful Georgia. So, yes I made it fine here alone for a month and I have to say it was not THAT bad. Of course I missed him and I miss having someone to do the little things with. So, how did I do with my goals....lol...laugh if you will I did not succeed at ALL of them but some of them I did conquer and proud that I did.
I got my house and the car clean. Everyone keeps telling me my house looks different all clean and the fact that I did the true military wife thing and rearranged the living room. My friend told me after the fact that you are not a true army wife unless when they leave for awhile you rearranged the house. I did not lose any weight or start exercising. Oh well! I have became very crafty and I will post pictures once my hubby gets back with the camera. I did paint and make the sea shell picture frame now I just got to get a picture of us at the beach. I also bought a shadow box and took all my medals from twirling from when I was 3 to 18 and make a nice display. I even got pictures of me at different ages twirling! I am proud of it!! Yesterday I made Halloween sugar cookies but I did not have Halloween color sprinkles so I just use food coloring to make some of the dough orange for pumpkins and some dough black for witches' hat and bats and cats. Then I left some dough along and made ghosts out of it. The black cookies don't look that good though but oh well Jeremy will eat them! LOL!
So anyways yay I made it though a month and I have learn that I am independent again. I just know when he leaves for Iraq I will be okay that I can handle anything...okay maybe not Anything but I will find someone who can!!!!
Oh, and I started classes this week I did my first quiz for sociology and I got 100% I was so shocked. I have never been a good student and always said I wished I would had worry more about school work then I did about guys and band in high school. I passed everything and was A and B honor roll but I think if I would had applied my self just a little harder I could had done better. Oh well, lesson learned so this time I am trying harder to applied myself a little more!
Okay, well off to study before I got to start getting dressed to go pick him up... Later!!

Yard Sales

Wow, what a deal! Once upon a time I hate to go to yard sales so bad. I thought to be "cool" you did not shop at them. I remember telling my mother.. "no, please don't stop" She never listen to me and always stopped anyways and I always refused to get out there is nothing I would EVERY need from a yard sale. Now, 15 years later....I LOVE YARD SALES! yes I said it! Anything to save a buck or two or more.
The good thing about living on a military installation is they have twice a year a post wide yard sale. Awesome it takes you hours and that is not even stopping at every house. You never know what you will find. To bad me and my friend stopped looking cause we ran out of money before we every even finished half the houses. But, I had cash of what I wanted to spend and not a penny more. Anyways I am excitied with what I got.
Here is what I got:

1. A Tall Lamp/Light - $3.00 normally $10
2. A Care for my neighbor girl that is sick - $1.00 normally $10.00
3. "Fast and the Furious 1 and 2" DVDs and DVD "The Greatest Game Every Played" (This was my gift for Jeremy) $5.00 for all 3. Normally at least $15.00
4. A wire shoe rack - $3.00 normally $10-15.
5. A Tall Black DVD shelf - $4.50 normally $15.00
6. And my steal of the Day and the one thing that I am proud to get: A Bissell Little Green with the Heat Stream. The lady said that she had only use it maybe twice still almost brand new, in the box, with all parts and instruction book. I been wanting one of these to do my couches and mattress and spots on the floor. So how much did I pay? Well lets say I went to Wal-mart after I left yard saling and they had it for $99.98. So I paid.......drum roll please.......$25.00 that was it. I feel I save alot there! Jeremy was proud of me. LOL!

So, anyways, just wanted to share my way of saving money.....yard sales! I spent a totally of $41.50 on stuff that my house needed to make it more like a home. I save at least $118.50. WOW! that is crazy. Anways, enough! Just thought I would share!