It’s the end of yet another exhausting day doing the single parenting thing while my husband is overseas for his job. The constant demands, playground interventions, tantrums, and all in everyday things that need to happen can be super draining. I have been thinking a lot about how I am not the parent that I dreamed of being. Recently my blog friend Hanan wrote on her blog about … [Read more...]
Sending Love Letters Across The Miles with Hallmark Go Cards Windows 8 App #WindowsChampions
This deployment has been anything but easy. I have to admit one of the things that has fallen through the cracks are the little letters and notes I like to send my husband. When we were dating and he deployed, I went to the store and bought a ton of cards to send. I filled them with little notes letting him know he was on my mind. Today those notes still sit in old deployment boxes. … [Read more...]
Staying in Touch with Skype During Deployments #WindowsChampions
My husband has been deployed now for over 2.5 months. There isn’t a day that he is gone that he doesn’t long to see the kids. For his job as a aviation defense contractor my husband has deployed 5+ times since our first son was born. (We have actually gone through so many deployments via Air Force and this job that I have stopped counting.) When it was just the two of us, Skyping … [Read more...]
Baby D Monthly Update | 6 Months Old
Talk about second baby syndrome here! Life has been so chaotic I haven’t been able to post Baby D’s 6 month update until just now! Baby D turned 6 months old on June 4th, and he is growing like a weed! He is so full of life and personality and already trying to get into just about everything he can! I feel like he is a completely different baby since our 5 month baby update! I’ve … [Read more...]
Asthma Sucks
Just when I thought we were getting a handle on my little man’s asthma our trip to Minnesota proved otherwise. Between the very high pollen count and loving touching the cats he is allergic too, we ended up in the hospital on the last day of our trip. I felt so badly for him, but I questioned over and over if I should even bring him in. Parenting doesn’t come with a manual, and I was worried I … [Read more...]