New Year.....

Ok so, it has most defintely been awhile since I've done anything with this blog. I guess I am going to gear my post today to catching up :)
So the New Year came and I welcomed it with open arms! 2009 was a rough year, not for any one particular reason, just alot of little things that made me count down to 2010. So here we are 2010.... oh 2010 I am pinning all my hopes and dreams on you... so don't screw it up for me and my family!!! ha ha ha ha
So January has proven to be very stressful (thanks alot 2010) Guy has been working alot, but that's nothing new. What is a new development is he has been growning increasingly frustrated with his squadron. Now let me say I love everybody in his squadron, both past and present, we have met some amazing people that I know in a pinch would pull through for us if we ever needed anything. That is something not many military families can say..... we can't invision ourselves with a better group of people BUT .......come on..... 3 years and only one deployment?!?!?!? Not that I want him to go but it's something he needs to do, he needs to feel as though he has accomplished something and right now I'm not getting the feeling that he has a sense of fullfilment with his work. He enjoys what he does so much and he is incredible at what he does (I have it on record from a very reputiable source!!!) but when you're stateside while there are places his peers get sent to he begins to question his.......I'm not sure of the word.... self worth? I guess that makes sense ;) Anyways I guess where I am going with this is 2010 please bring my husband a deployment, a mission he can be proud of a mission that will give him a sense of purpose and fullfilment.
NOW on to the fun stuff... the kids! Colyn is still doing very well in school . He loves reading and continues to take tests in the library in order to be approved to check out higher level books. (who knew you needed permission to check out reading meterial) He is going to be getting glasses soon, we've picked out his frames we just need to get the money together and go buy them. Odd thing is they are only reading glasses... not all the time glasses. Apparently he is far sighted?!?!? who knew... I guess the eye doctor, right?!?!?!? He will soon be jumping into the spring season of soccer and we can't wait! He's going to be on the same team this season which is awesome considering the past who knows how many seasons he's always been on a different team :) Regan is still enjoying Trinity Preschool... I can't ever say enough about that school and her teachers! She has made several new friends this year because there has been alot of in and outs due to military transfers. She is missing one friend that moved away because his Dad is getting out of the USMC. She still thinks he's on Christmas vacation...ahh well, a girl will always wait for a boy LOL!!!!
As for me I'm staying busy... too busy somedays! I am still doing the LINKS stuff, still helping out the squadron as a Family Readiness Advisor, and now I've taken on Membership for the Staff Wives' Club... good grief. See that's why I've been so busy and haven't posted in awhile :)
Well you heard what 2010 has brought us so far and what I'm wishing for. I hope each and everyone of you have a wish for 2010 and here's to the New Year (27 days into it)
Love to you all!

It's been awhile

Well it's really has beenawhile since I've done anything with this blog. Facebook seems to be my favorite form of communication :)

This summer has proven to be the most unpredictable one yet. Guy spent a little over a month on a boat. That "deployment" or as I like to refer to it as "the mini fiasco" caused us to cancel plans we had made for a fun summer. So there were no birthday parties here in NC and we didn't make is to Busch Gardens but the kids did get to go to MD for 2 weeks. That too was unplanned so it gave me 2 weeks with a very empty quite house. He has made it back and has been at work non stop. I have kept busy as well, our squadron has alot of homecomings and with those come set ups and clean ups. I swear I have seen Guy more at work than I have at home lately!

Now we're gearing up for school.... the summer days are passing slowly which is diving me crazy but these are days I'm going to want back when the kids are grown up :)

*nothing to do with Family updates*

ok so I set this blog up to be a family update kind of thing, well today it is basically me clearing my head in a written manner... I am much better at the written word than the spoken word :) SOOOOO if you were expecting a fun family update you're only going to get me rambling!!!! ENJOY!!!!

For the 8 long years that I have been married into the military,I have come to the realization that it is basically a grown-up version of high school... it's all based on rank and status. It's a hard situation for making friends... even though it shouldn't be b/c the ones who are wearing the rank our the hubbies NOT the wives (but that doesn't stop us) So having been around this situation for 8 years you'd think I'd be a pro at making friends... HA HA HA sadly NO! I join groups, volunteer and I still get labeled by my husband's rank .... I might as well wear a red sticker on my forehead and have a shirt that says yeah he's enlisted on the front and what are you gonna do about it on the back! that's a good idea, I may start production, lemme know if you want one!!!!! ha ha ha ha I'm suuuure they'll be a hot seller! Come to think of it I have seen a wife jogging around my neighborhood that has a shirt that says b/c the GYSGT said so...... Guy needs to get promoted so I can ask her where she got it from :) Anyways off course a little..... I'm ok with him being enlisted... he has busted his butt, he constantly seeks to improve his skills and does his job well, he has gotten a degree and managed to be on the Dean's List all while working more than the average joe's 40 hour work week...... Ok we're getting off topic here I need to re-group! What I'm getting at is I'm proud as shit of my hubby BUT that doesn't mean I label myself by what HE has accomplished, I have done nothing to earn what he has. I maintain our household, I support him and his unit but that doesn't make me top dog..... it doesn't make ANYONE top dog. We are all spouses, all we did was marry a man we love and doing that doesn't give us power or a title. Sure there is a chain of command.. FOR THE GUYS... it doesn't mean I can't be friends with a PFC's wife or a MGYSGT's wife, or a CAPT's wife, I can be friend's with the CO's wife. We are all WIVES we all miss our hubby's when they deploy,we all have the same fears, we are all proud of them, we all cry the same tears, but mostly importantly we are all wives. We are a special group, no one else can ever understand what military wives go through better than another military wife. We should be there for each other as friends... I bet if we all stepped back outside of the label we have given ourselves we could see that an avi's wife, a flightline's wife, a maintence control's wife, an airframer's wife and a pilot's wife all have one thing in common our husband's serve our country we all miss them the same as the next wife. We all cry when our hubby's leave we all notice the empty chair at the dinner table we all experience these things at one point or another. The guy's all work together toward a common goal why can't we as wives let go of our self given titles and work on being friends?!?!?
I am no expert on this topic, I am self proclaimed hermit :) but I'd like to be an expert I'd like to say I have made friends regardless of rank and/or status but I find it hard for other wives to see my point of view and HONESTLY believe in it! You all can talk the talk,but can you walk the walk? Who knows, maybe this blog will start a revolution.... a revolution of wives being wives and not being worried about OMG is she gonna see me with that (insert husbands rank) wife. While I'm almost 100% sure I'm not going to see that revolution anytime soon it would be nice and even if hundreds upon thousands of wives don't jump on my bandwagon, I am one person and one person CAN change and by me changing maybe others will follow suit :)

Now please don't take offense to this post, I'm sure I'm going to get angry phonecalls and/or nasty looks and if you go back and re read I did not exclude myself from any descriptions I said US...... and if you still take offense,then maybe it's time to re evaluate yourself and see how you could change.......

Stuff

So we are well into soccer season and it's going good. The schedule keeps me very busy but that's a good thing... since Guy's been on nights it's been tough around here. Anyways, Colyn is in his 3rd season playing and he continues to improve each day. This is his first year playing at SWSC, he was a JASA the previous years but logistically this year we needed to move him closer to our house. I was very unsure at first because SWSC is so different from JASA but his coach has turned out to be very good and the program seems to be very focused on improving the kids skills. We have also made the decision to let him play in the fall as well as the spring. I was worried about it exhausting him but the older he gets the more he seems to want to do.

Regan on the other hand isn't "into" team sports..... she loves playing soccer with Colyn, she loves practice but when it comes to the games she wants no part of them. It's kind of disappointing she doesn't like the games because she is very good. I'm sure every parent thinks that, but her coach has been having her practice with her husband one on one because in her coach's words "she's beyond the basics she has to teach the other kids." Which was awesome to hear but knowing that Regan won't play is really disappointing. Maybe it's the age.... 3 years is definitely really young to try "organized sports" but I thought it'd be fun for her because she has so much energy. So for now she has to stick it out, I told her she has to finish the season before she can decide what else she'd like to try. While some people say that's mean and/or bad parenting, I look at it as teaching her she can't quit everything she tries if it doesn't work out her way.

Other than soccer we really don't have much going on..... car repairs,a little painting and remolding but nothing too exciting! Hope everyone is well and gearing up for Spring cleaning... I know I am!!!!!

Still trying to figure this out

Ok so I haven't posted in awhile but I have mastred how to get a fancy background and change it! I swear I'm trying to get better.... I need to know work on the pictures and what to actually write but I'm getting there :)