Routine.

I am getting back into my old routine.
I really enjoy cooking and haven't done so for a long time...other than the basic whip it together thing for dinner. I used to go online and get ricipes for great dinners and plan my menu for the week. I did it today and bought all my stuff. I can't wait!! Tonight was homemade pizza and Italian Salad (kinda like the Olive Garden Slad) I also get to make my fave Spinach Lasagna Rolls, I stole it from Everyday Italian on Food Network, but it is so yummy and easy.
I feel like I never have enough time in the day to get everything done. No school work today thanks to grocery shopping and lunch with the hubby. But tomorrow, it is a yoga, homework, laundry day so hopefully I will get everything on my list checked off.

A breath of fresh air...

The last week or so has been hard on me. But this past weekend was just about as close to heaven on earth as it could be. I found that now that I have let go of the things that were holding me down, making me feel worthless, I have begun a new chapter in my life. Just being with my kids and my family while I can is such a blessing. I spent time with my husband, who will be deploying to Iraq again soon. My boys, we went to all their games and cheered them on. I spent time with my step son, whom, despite what people feel my opinion is about him, I love him a ton. He will be going to live with his Mom again this summer, so we are spending a lot of family time together. My younger boys cuddled with me on the couch and put their heads on my growing belly. Nathan felt Riley kick for the first time on Sunday. It is times like this I thank God for all the blessings I have. I spent time with a new friend on Saturday afternoon, I took my younger boys for a play date, the kids played so well, no yelling, all the kiddos were helpful and no fighting. Me and Charlie talked and talked, it was great to have another mom on the same level as me to chat with. I even got to snuggle her baby girl, Lily. It really was a nice weekend. I feel like I am starting fresh this week. I have nothing holding me down now. I am moving forward with school and finished another 3 chapters last week, so I am getting closer to being done. My house is nice and clean (minus the mystery of the disappearing dustpan) and my kids are all down to one sport a piece. I am enjoying meeting the new people in my life, but I think I will be flying solo for awhile. Just me and my kids, like it used to be. I miss my old friends, and welcome meeting new people, but drama gets the better of people sometimes and I am content being alone. I guess I am like my husband in that sense, he doesn't even like having neighbors.

It was our anniversary last week!!

Just a quick shout out to Kelly, who baby sat so my husband and I could go out to dinenr alone, for the first time in about 4 years. Yep, It was our 5 year anniversary last week, and it was the first time we were together and on a date to celebrate. He is always either in Iraq or in the field or we celebrate it on another day.
We went to dinner at Buca De Beppos. We pigged out on Chicken Marsala, Fetticine, salad, and of course, TiraMisu.
It was nice to be able to just enjoy each others company, and make fun of the crazy family next to us. I miss those days. We used to go out all the time before kids. We tried all kinds of places.
But we love our kiddos and they just make eating an adventure!!

A Quickie

I am an Army Wife, I should be use to losing good friends. Some of my bestest friends have moved away to place like Texas, Kentucky , Alabama, and Georgia. But I still talk to them all the time.
So what do you do when your friends that are still here feel like they are thousands of miles away, and you don't talk to them on a regular basis anymore. Well, you could do what I have done, become a hermit. I am trying to meet some new people to do stuff with. I have met a few. I am even trying to just be a better friend to the ones I have in other areas, like the other moms at school, the friends we have from CA that just moved here. My husband doesn't want me being a depressed bum anymore. He gives me Army advice "just suck it up and move on" he tells me it is their loss, I have a million other good friends that love me and talk to me all the time. But these were my best friends for the last year, it is hard to assume they don't like me anymore. I just chalk it up to our busy lives, but it hurts.

So that was my quickie on friendship.

I miss my friends, those near and those far.

I hate Deployments....

OK, we are however many months away from our next deployment. Just got my hubs back from the last year long one back in November, he knocked me up (as romantic as that sounds) anticipating that he will be here to bond with the baby for a few months before he heads out again, and low and behold, the Army screwed us again....He could be leaving as soon as Aug 15th (3 days after my due date...) And the cherry on top is that not only will he be gone for a Year....NOW IT IS 15 Months!!

What a load a crap the government is feeding the general public, They say they are doing it to make it fair on everyone "all soldiers must share the burden" Well, I call BULLSHIT!! This will be my husbands 3rd tour over there. All he wants to do is get out. That is why he signed the Unit of Action contract to stablize our family and for 3 years to include 1 tour in Iraq....well, they locked him in and now they will own us until 2009. They tell the public about this year long downtime at home....well, my hubby just got home in Novemeber, He did get his 30 days of leave, but has worked 12 hour days and now has been in the field for the past week, then he goes to NTC in CA for a month, Then they want him to squeeze in his school for 2 weeks down in Ft Hood....all before August. WOW....That is a NONEXISTANT 12 MONTHS!!!

OK, Sorry for the rant, but I needed it.

On an even more depressing note, I am in the process of taking out another life insurance on my husband. I am just so petrified of this next deployment, after hearing it would be longer, I freaked. I don't know what I would do without him and be left with 4 kids alone in Colorado.....

Sorry, that was a bummer blog.

TOO COLD!!

I think it is too damn cold today. I am not one for freezing rain or ice on everything. I am a clutz, so I choose to try and not go anywhere when the weather gets like this. I am prego and very off balance. When I was pregnant with Nathan I was walking and totally missed the curb and ate it on my stomach, I hurried and got up ran in the house because, summer time in CA, everyone was outside and saw me....I am pretty lame.

So Nathan's opening day of Soccer, got cancelled this morning. Mike took Little Mike to his football game, again, 9am in the ice, I would die, so Dad is video taping for me, Nate went along for the ride, supposedly to cheer his brother on, but he told me he wants to see him get tackled....nice brotherly love in action.

Me and my fellow mom's were supposed to conquer the Yard Sale circut this morning, but due to the weather, no such luck!

So I am down to my last planned activity for the day, my friend Ashley's Baby Shower. I just found out about it yesterday. She has come home from Germany to visit, my friend Christina is down from Nebraska, so it should be a fun time. I miss Christina so very much. We used to do everything together. LITERALLY!! We gave birth a day apart, I cut her son's umbilical cord!! So, here's to good friends!

First Blog. That's all.

Ok, I had to get onto Blogger, since all the blogs I read are on here. I highly doubt people are reading my myspace blog with the intensity that I read my blogs on here. So .....

Me in a nutshell.
I am a 26 Year Old Mom. I have 2 boys, Nathan (7) and Jakob (3) with Boy #3 on the way, making his debut this Summer. His name will be Riley, because we like it.
I married my love of my life. His name is Mike. He joined the Army about 5 years ago, so that we could move out of our hometown, out of my mom's house and be self sufficient for once. It has been great for us, other than he has gone to Iraq for 2 year long tours. He will be leaving again at the end of the summer, hopefully we will have a month of new baby before he goes again.

We live in Colorado Springs, CO. Plan to stay here forever and not go back to CA except to visit.
So, Anyways, that is me. I will be blogging more as I feel the need. Thanks for reading and Talk to ya soon!