Taken on FRG Leader Duties

Well, 2 months ago I resigned as Co-FRG Leader because the other leader was getting all the credit and not contributing. But she called me Sunday, because she was resigning and needed to know if I'd take back over. I didn't know if any one else was interested, but the Commander felt better if I was in that spot. So its been almost a week, and things are going along smoothly. Tweeked the rosters, created the Key Caller phone Tree, attended a few meetings, been more busy with FRG stuff than my own life. I need to get some school work done, pay some bills, Wii exercise a little and get some assorted shopping done and remember to Breathe. deep breath in through the nose......deep breath out through the mouth. I hear Yoga calling.

Oh and I need to set up my Relay for Life Team Meeting, because we have about 50 days til Relay for Life. I still need to get a Spirit Stick, so we can decorate it, we need to get our Tu-Tus made and our basket stuffed for the Auction. Thank God for our contributors which happen to be Friends and Family in Montana. The Relay for Life Theme is "Walk across America" and each team selects a state to represent, and their basket and campsite is represent that state also. Our State is Montana, since my daughter's name is Montana, and our team member, Aimee Wrzensinski who is from Montana, had cervical cancer in 1998. I too had cervical cancer and we have another member, who is waiting results of a biopsy - she might become one of our "Hyster-Sisters" if its cervical cancer too. But we support any Cancer fighting event. So Please support and participate when you can....it might save your life one day.

I'm off to save the planet.....POOF!

~for the Love of Combat Boots and Dog Tags!!

My Army Heart goes out to a Marine Wife

Shame on me!!! Here I sit complaining about what my hubby does and doesn't do when he is home. But tomorrow there is a young Marine wife of less than a year and new mother who will be receiving her husband's casket tomorrow. On Sunday, 14 March, 26 yr old Cpl Jonathan Daniel Porto was killed while on duty in Afghanistan. This is a pain no one should feel, especially those who sacrifice their marriage and love, so that other's can prosper and gain independence. This wife has lost the love of her life and this little girl who is just beginning her life, will never know her daddy. Please hold Mrs P and Baby P in your hearts and say a prayer so that her days become easier and happy again.

4 day Training holiday

Well, my hubby has had the last 4 days off, thanks to a Brigade training holiday. What is funny, after all this time in the Army, I've never had another spouse ask me "what is a training holiday?" Only thing I can say is its the Army's way of giving additional days of free leave, because their troops in the field have trained so hard. Sometimes we get 3 days, sometimes we get 4 days, sometimes it includes Thursday, sometimes Monday. It all depended on if there was a Holiday like Presidents Day or Easter. But there was nothing on the calendar this week, so I presume it was just becuase the field time days were so long and so many. But what flabergasts me is that this still isn't enough for some wives. They forget that their soldier is going to NTC and will be gone for 30-45 days straight, with little to no contact. And he'll be getting deployed soon also, and there is a whole 'nother set of issues to go along with that. But I'll save those for another day.

While my hubby was home, I've not gotten my Wii workouts in, we've eaten so so bad, watched alot of softball, since my daughter plays and I can't get a lick of homework done while anyone else is home. Just call me strange. Oh and did I mention, we laid around the house, like I don't do enough of that on a daily basis. And I have suffered every day with severe headaches, which is not normal for me. So yay! But you know what is the craziest of it all, I still have dishes to do, laundry to do and food to make, because no one wants to fix food for themselves. They ask me what I want, and I say nothing. But they still somehow mind control me into making them sandwiches. Then when I make something different, they ask "mmm, what's that?" I say MINE! Hubby is home and I'm still doing it all. I think my biggest peeve is.....trash. I empty it cuz its full and I come back in and put in a new bag. Anyone else empties it, guess what NO BAG!

Well this 4 day is almost over, and I can start another week again. Right now, I'm laying on the bed, with a headache and nothing good on the limited cable upstairs, while hubby lays on the couch, watching NASCAR which he inevitably falls asleep during. UGH!!

~for the Love of Combat Boots and Dog Tags!!

18yrs in the Army

Congrats to my hubby for 18 yrs in the Army and getting further in rank than he ever expected. But I believe a strong man grows because of the love, support and strong woman behind him. Boot Camp started him off in Oklahoma, and we have been to Texas, Georgia, South Carolina and now, Kentucky. We will end it here, providing the Army lets up end it at 20 yrs. He has been to NTC 9 times, getting ready to go a 10th time. He didn't go last time, because I had just been diagnosed with cervical cancer and surgery was scheduled during 2008 NTC. He has been deployed 2 times and getting prepped for a 3rd trip. He has been to Korea and yes, all it is a Drunk Fest. We were in Germany from 2001-2004, which was out favorite tour yet. We wish we could have stayed. That would have been fabulous. We have moved 5 times in the last 10 yrs, and without that change, I would have gone crazy with boredom. I know my husband has had some stressful units and been told he is a mean guy, but he has kept moving up in rank. So hopefully for him,well us.... he will make E8 before we retire. And I say we because WE are in the Army together, considering what wives have to go through, we go through it as one. Although we are better together, separation does make the heart grow fonder, even after all this time. Its almost like we were enlisted together. So baby, Congrats for being all you can be. 2 yrs and counting!!

When will Christians STOP Protesting at Soldier's Funeral, When?

http://woundedwarriors.tumblr.com/post/442718243/supreme-court-to-hear-soldier-funeral-protest-case

I know every American has a right to protest as they please, but come on! Leave grieving families alone!! I think it is despicable for anyone to protest at a funeral of a soldier and wave their signs with hurtful messages. But members of their own church??? It breaks my heart, because they are damning themselves. God would not want this behavior from his followers. How can they think this is OK? Why don't they protest the White House or Capitol Hill? Being a Christian, I am not against homosexuals, I have many that are my friends. And I do not believe that God is punishing anyone for tolerating Homosexuality. Why during War time do the soldiers or their families have to tolerate this intolerable behavior? Vietnam Vets had to deal with it, now OIF/OEF soldiers had to deal with. Its not fair nor is it right! Protest in front of the ones calling for this war, not the innocent volunteers who protect us from the War coming to our door step. How would these churches feel if we started protesting on their doorsteps? You know what, it isn't right. There are somethings that are not morally appropriate. And God should send them a sign for being hurtful to humankind. I don't see those people protesting the ones who killed that soldier, because they are so innately against homosexuality. I knew some Baptists that did things together with each others spouses, that should be protested and punishable by law. But no one protests churches too often.

Makes me want to encourage anyone who wants to join the military, not to ......let the non-supporters defend themselves, we're tired of doing it any longer. See who makes it to heaven then.

Unbelievable stuff I heard on the news today

Well today's news was just one ridiculous story after another. Shouldn't be called the news, should be called Entertainment Today. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of sad, horrible news also, but the news pretty much makes me laugh these days.

3-D TV's have made their way to mainstream markets, today. Great, what will our husbands want next? Because lord knows mine wants a bigger TV than what he has now. Isn't her boobs big enough on the regular screen we have now? And heck, if its HD channel and the news isn't broadcast in HD, you get a crappy minimized version, the picture goes bad and the colors change. Oh well, you get to watch TV right?

Who in the world thought of naked sushi? Why would you want to eat raw anything off a naked body, a man's body no less? Ewww That's not the fish!!! Hope the eaters don't mind a little hair with their food.

And my favorite....there was a lady in Florida today, who was driving to see her boyfriend, with her ex-husband in the car. While driving, she went about shaving her bikini area and crashed into an SUV. And we thought texting was a killer. Dang, what was that lady thinking??? A razor, sensitive area and potholes, YIKES!! Wonder if she knicked herself when she hit the SUV.

What possible could be next? Everyday there is bizarre things happening that don't make it to the news, but alot of them get caught on People of Walmart.com. And I know plenty of you out there have done a bizarre thing or two, its what keeps me entertained and wondering what's some wierdo gonna do this time.