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Sunday July 13, 2008
The Do's and Don'ts
The P-Man and I got to spend some time together AKA a Saturday Night Date Night...Tim was away at a softball tournament
with Taylor. Peyton and I haven't had a "date" in quite some time, so it was nice...though he quiety watched
most of the game a few rows down from me in hopes of catching a ball (secretly wanting to impress his Daddy)! It was a nice
evening and it made me remember we need to do stuff like that more often...he loves spending time with me, but as he enters
5th grade I am reminded the time will come all to soon that my baby may be too busy for "date nights" with his momma...sooo....Peyton
taught me a "DO" this weekend...yup...Mom's of 10 year old boys...DO take your little man on a Date Night!
After a long weekend of softball, guess what?! More softball!!! I dropped Taylor off at the high school field today to catch
the bus for camp. She is traveling with the rest of the Summerville team up to Anderson, SC for five days of softball...I
was so excited for her! She was sooo annoyed with me! She reminded me as such when I asked her to bring her bag down to me
so I could check to see what she packed...don't ya know 15 year olds (well almost 15) DO NOT need their mother to check
their luggage....yup...that was my DON'T for the weekend!
PS...I learned another DON'T from Miss Taylor this
weekend...DON'T try to take your camera to take pictures of your teenager heading off to camp...hence the reason I had
to post the one below...
Reflections Sunday January 27, 2008 Inspired and Heartbroken
So...has it really been nearly a month since I posted anything? Time flies...you
could say I have been spending the last month living life versus writing about it. There wasn't much time to reflect over
the past month. But today, I am taking the time to reflect…
Tim left this morning for four months. Four
months doesn't seem like long when you compare it to some of the deployments our friends have weathered. Tim said something
to me on the way to the airport that hit home...he's not a man of many (serious) words, so when he says something like
this, it tends to stick to me. He said, "Isn't it funny how we always seem to talk about wanting life to slow down
and here we are praying it will go by quickly"--isn't that the truth?
I am inspired and heartbroken today...
Inspired by the man I am blessed to be married to--my partner in life--the father of my children--MY SOLDIER. He inspires
me...PERIOD...no other words can bring justice to the sacrifices OUR SOLDIERS make for us...everyday...all over the world...they
give their LIFE like no other profession, they give their time, they miss school plays, birthdays, softball games, wrestling
matches, lazy days on the couch with the one they love and so much more. Their ability to do that--for the better of people
they will likely never even meet--is inspiring.
But, I am also heartbroken by the sacrifices we have to weather.
Sure, Tim has been deployed before...but this time its different. Our kids are older--they get it--which should somehow help
in many ways--but, when you get down to it--it really doesn't. This morning I watched my children say goodbye to their
Daddy--there is NOTHING more heartbreaking. As I got out of the car at the airport I watched others watch us say goodbye...everyone
there knew...they saw his uniform, they saw his bag and as if trying to give us the only respect they knew how, I watched
them stop what they were doing and bow their heads...whether they were saying a prayer for MY SOLDIER or simply giving us
the privacy to say goodbye, I'll never know. Either way...I was inspired and heartbroken all in one breath.
Time flies...it will won't it?
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