Liberated, Baking & Broken...

Well, It has been a while since I have written and I know I still haven't wrote about  Big Papas R&R but I will. When I feel like I can do the time with my amazing husband justice then I will write about it. Till then its my daily rantings on the things I do through out the day. Typically I write my blogs at night but Ive had this blog started for a couple days so I will finish it up and post it and get it out of the way. Then onto my evening postings. Lets go back to last Sunday. There was some drama amongst Army Wives in the unit about injuries and who got hurt and how bad it was and it was awful and the lies were spreading like wildfire. In my opinion if your husband was NOT the one who got hurt the information doesnt need to go further than you. The spouse/family of the injured soldier will be notified if he chooses to do so you do NOT need to go spreading it around on facebook. *smh* Its terrible that this occurs amongst the Army wives but it seems that some of them have no consideration for others. With that being said I decided to do some cleansing on MY facebook page. I went through and deleted people I dont talk to on a DAILY basis, ones who cause drama and ones I pretty much have on there for no reason. Dont get me wrong. Not ALL Army Wives stirr up stuff and alot of them weren't removed because of drama but because simply I don't talk to them often. LOL! So all thats left are a sprinkle of Army Wife friends, close friends (which include the sprinkle of Army Wives), and family. I have decided to use Facebook as it was originally intended to communicate with friends and family, look at pictures of family and see what they are up to. 

 

 Ok so LESS people to read about and stuff on facebook I have had more time to do other things like BAKE! =) Of course its mostly desserts because YUMMY who doesnt like making sweet stuff. I got a recipe from my sister in law to make beer bread. I used Corona light and OMG was it nummy!!

I looked around online for some yummy dessert recipes and I ran across one called Peaches and Cream. OHHH IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD! You can find that recipe here at The Menu Mama Peaches and Cream! She has a few other recipies on there that looked yummy! I just havent wanted anything besides this since I made it! My parents came over for dinner and wehad meatloaf, mashed taters and green beans and then THIS for dessert! Nummy!! It was a nice meal that day!

Well Big Papas FAV dessert is red velvet cake so what woman doesnt wanna be able to make what her man LOVES to eat! Sooo I looked around online and found a yummy red velvet cake recipe online! =) I baked it and let my mom and in laws try and they all agreed that Big Papa is gonna love it! Everything is made from scratch to include the icing! (THAT was delicious, my fav part about the red velvet cake!)

Going back to dinner on Tuesday, after dinner and dessert I was playing with the kids and we were all playing around on the floor and Buttercup fell on her arm. She cried for a little bit but then she was running around playing. I was observing her as she played and she was not using her arm that she fell on. So as a concerned mama I took her to the Emergency Room. My parents had stayed home and watch the older two and my in laws met me at the ER for moral support. CUZ I NEEDED IT! So the doc comes in looks at it and looks at her and said oh well its probably just a sprain she will be fine. (She was acting like nothing was wrong, unless you touched her arm) He went ahead and did X-rays JUST IN CASE but he didnt think she broke it. While we were waiting Buttercup was playing with her Nana, jumping off the end of the bed into Nanas arms. (FEARLESS CHILD)  A few minutes later he walks in shaking his head and said well... she broke it. Im like WHAT!?!?!?! He said yep. A buckle fracture in her wrist involving her growth plate. They put a splint on it and told me to get to the ortho ASAP. The nurse freaked me out a bit and said if it involves a growth plate they may do surgery!! UMMM NO!! NOT ON MY BABY! Called the next morning and the doc the referred me to was not in so I made an appointment for Thursday. Got her into the Ortho and doc looked at x-rays and said hes gonna put a cast on her but wants her back to check healing and growth and we will go from there. So my poor lil 19 month old baby has an itty bitty cast on her arm. GREAT thing is nothing is slowing her down. She hasnt missed a lick since she got it on. TOUGH lil cookie!

 "Forgiveness means letting go of a hurtful situation and moving on with your own happiness."

A BooHoo and Hooah (First Time)

[[[A fellow blogger has started this link. Its a short way to vent about something negative, but with every negative you gotta have a positive! Thanks Mrs. Monkey for starting this AWESOME trend! I like it!!]]]



BooHoo: I hate rumors.. They get so misconstrued and information changes so drastically from one person to another! 

HOOAH: Not too much longer till my love bug comes home!!! & I cant wait!

Wordless Wednesday:: Were in Heaven

R&R Recovery!

So I have decided I AM going to write a blog about things that have happened the past couple of weeks like BigPaPas R&R and what we did and my thoughts on Osamas death but for right now Im trying to recover from yet another goodbye... It seemed ALOT harder this time. I dont wanna blog about the great time it was when Im feeling like blagh! I just dont think I could give it justice until I am feeling better... Like I posted on my facebook I lived 9 months without him around and these past two weeks he was here and he left yesterday and Im sitting here wondering how the hell I survived the last 9 months without an extra set of hands around all the time, someone to hold me at night and wake up to and kiss good morning. Sigh..... Oh well! I will catch you all up and post pics and videos and such! Right now Im just trying to get myself back on a routine and schedule with the kids like I was before I would REALLY like to just wallow in my pity and in my bed and sleep away the next couple months buuuuuuut as a mama I dont have that luxery but its cool\... Not too much longer left till they come home for good!!! I cant wait!!!!



Wordlesss Wednesday

No words...

I havent really been in the mood to write much.. There is so much going on. I got through another birthday party without my husband here.. I had plenty of family and friends to help. Even an added suprise when my brother, sister and nephew came up to see me. That was a wonderful suprise. And I had 99% of my favorite girls in one place! That was amazing!! I think this is the only time in my life where I have had more female friends than male friends. I had a girls night a couple days ago with my sisters. It was fun. Went shopping for what was supposed to be for them but I racked up a boatload of clothes... which im sure you will see in upcoming pictures as my sister threatened to hurt me if I didnt wear them LOL. And the were NOT tshirts and MOST of them arent black!!! SO that should be FUN and different!! Right now I am full of emotions. Anxious, Excited, Sad, Lonely, Happy, Depressed, Energized, Lazy... and all kinds of other things.... Weird how im a matter of seconds you can go from one emotion to another. I miss my husband so much. I am biding my time until he comes home for R&R and then till he comes home for good. I cant wait to hold him in my arms and touch his face and feel his warmth. His internet has not been working well so I havent been able to talk to him much so that isnt helping ease the pain or help with my patience either. But I know it will soon be over. Thankfully I have amazing friends to help me through it when it gets tough. I have been going over this government shutdown in my mind. Yeah we have money in savings but will it last?? How long is it gonna be if it happens... My husband and his fellow soldiers shouldnt have to worry about their bills being paid and their families being fed and taken care of. I mean they are over there trying to focus on keeping themselves and their counterparts safe. What do other countries think of ours. Our government is talking about "shutting-down". To me that appears to be rediculous. If they KNEW this was coming up it should have been addressed much earlier than it has. I finally heard a speech from President Obama that I could actually AGREE on. SMH I dont do that much, no too fond of a president leading a country and soldiers and such when he has no military leadership experience.. again thats MY opinion. Lots of others feel different. But I think a president who SERVES his country would do better at LEADING his country. Anyways, basically in a nut shell in his speech he said that congress needs to get their sh*t together and come to an agreement so our soldiers and federal employees get PAID. Yes the care of the environment and abortion are very good topics to debate on but right now at this very moment soldiers, and many others affected by this shut down are trying to figure out how the hell they are going to pay their bills and eat and survive... sure some of them get paid back but will the electric company and water company and banks and landlords be forgiving? If so for how long? My soldier is on the front lines of Operation Enduring Freedom and the LAST thing he needs to worry about, the last thing ANYONE needs to worry about is how the bills are gonna get paid. The government is gonna shut down. What if the military shut down. What if the prisons shut down. What if EVERYTHING decided they didnt know how to work together and come up with a budget to MANAGE their money and pay their people.. The United States would not be what it stands for. UGHHH!!!!!!! Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.. HAH! Yeah right.. Nowadays those come with a price tag and well if we arent getting paid you can hang it up.C'mon congress PUT YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES ON and MAKE A DECISION  But no worries here... I know BigPapa and I will do what we have to do to make ends meet and I would live in a cardboard box with that man and our babies because that my friend is ALLLL I need right there... The love that our family shares. GOD BLESS OUR SOLDIERS! May the Lord ease their hearts and minds so that they can focus on the task at hand protecting themselves and fighting and not have to worry about their GOVERNMENT not looking out for them and their families. May congress get their crap together before midnight tomorrow night (the supposed moment our government shuts down). Dear Congress, I hope you sleep well the next couple of nights, may what the soldiers have to face over seas never haunt you in your dreams. (or maybe I do). Now I will leave you with MY peace of mind. Why I CAN sleep at night and why I CANT all at the same time. My solider, My love, My best Friend and My hero.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

Wordless Wednesday