Happy New Year!

We hope that all of you have a wonderful new year!  I know I have plans for myself for this new year.  I absolutely HAVE to make TSgt this year and I hope that Chris does as well.  We could sure use the raise.  I’ve come to learn that it seems like there is a black cloud constantly over me.  It seems that nothing goes right for me although I do have a good life.  I’m going to try not to play so much of the victim and just accept the things that do not go right in my life.  It’s going to be a hard change because it just gets so frustrating sometimes.  I am going to continue to work hard to keep the weight off me that I lost while I was deployed.  I feel that this year is OUR year and I’m going to do everything I can to keep that good attitude.  Hopefully this year we’ll be buying the house we’ve been renting.  I just pray that everything goes through with it.  We really do love that house and it would be nice to do what we want to it.  I want to paint and really make it our own.

Haven’t posted in a while

Some days, I wonder when life is going to slow down. For those that really know me, know about my constant battle with low back pain. I’ve finally received a diagnosis. I have Sacroiliac joint issues. I saw a chiropractor for the first time today and boy was that brutal! It was a good kind of hurt but at this point, I’m willing to try anything. Things had gotten much better and I lived without pain for about a month. After living life pain free, I am not so willing to go back to the days of daily pain. I am scheduled to go get an injection under anesthesia on Harmony’s birthday. That is pretty scary to me but I’m so tired of being in pain and being overweight. I just want to live a normal life where I don’t have to worry what’s going to happen when I pick up my kids!

I had a nice scary trip to the ER on the 29th because I was lacing my boots and heard a snap and couldn’t move. It took a couple shots of different pain killers and the physical therapist an hour and a half to get me mobile again.

Other than that, things are well. I’m still enjoying my Mary Kay business although that’s been slow due to long hours at work. We had a 2 week exercise and during that time, all there is really time for is work and sleep. I’m looking forward to the holidays and some time off!

We have baby hawks!!

We are so excited that the hawks have had babies. We've only seen one of them but I made some phone calls today because I was curious about the tag on it's leg. Turns out there is a doctor at the university that's been studying these hawks for the last 5 years in our area. I've e-mailed him and we're hoping for a reply on Monday to talk to him about them. I would sure love to know how many babies they had and the sexes of them. We have been non-stop bird watching!

Happy Easter Everyone!

We hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a really good time. My parents were in town visiting which was an added bonus! The kids had Easter egg hunts at school and they also went to a big one at Purple Heart Park. They had a great time. It was set up really nice too with the Easter bunny, lunch and they had everyone separated by age group. I was busy cleaning for my open house. I had a group of my friends over to sell their items. We had a good time but not as many people as I would have hoped showed up. Anyway, the kids enjoyed their baskets and the Easter bunny was good to them.

Just one of those days

This is one of those days when I wonder why I'm still in the military.  I just don't want to do it some days.  I was so excited because I was finally going to get my commendation medal and I found out that there was a non-recommendation letter signed by my flight commander and the maintenance officer due to duty performance.  People are in shock at work.  They just can't believe it.  I am one of the hardest working people I know and I just can't imagine why they would want to do this to me.  I guess they said it could be resubmitted after my next EPR goes through in a couple of months but I was counting on those points to help raise my points for my testing for TSgt.  What a kick in the teeth!  It just makes me want to just squeak by like everyone else.  That's not my nature though and I will just keep doing well above and beyond what's expected to me but stuff like that just gets to me.  It makes me wonder why I continue to work my butt off for these people.