Hey Dolls, Happy Tuesday!
I hope everyone had a wonderful, long holiday weekend! We just spent the weekend relaxing and having lots of family time. Friday we had dinner with Samantha and her family. I love having a family that we are so close with. Sam and I love each other, our husbands have a bromance going on, and our kids play so well together. They have made this place feel like home. Being away from my family is really hard on me sometimes. This weekend in particular. The pasted few years I have always been home for my birthday and Memorial Day. So when May rolled around this year and I wasn’t there, I was really home sick. Reading all the birthday wishes from friends back home didn’t help at all. “We miss you”, “come home” …breaks my heart. It is so hard to let go of my life in St. Louis. But I am so thankful to have such wonderful people around here to make it a little easier.
Saturday Charlotte finally got to break out the kiddie pool! My mom bought it for her on Easter…I know Easter was a long time ago. I got it, I need to get with the program. Anyway, she absolutely loved it! She was a little hesitant at first, due to the freezing cold water. But once I got in with her and the Georgia sun heated up the water, she was like a fish! That baby loves water. She lives for playing in the water! Normally we just turn on the faucet on the side of the house and let her go crazy. After our day in the sun, John took his girls out for some Margs and Mexican food! Ha- super un-American on Memorial Day weekend. The place by our house has the most amazing chorizo and queso appetizer! It comes out on a fajita plate and is seriously magical.
Sadly I don’t have much to report for Sunday and Monday. Since Friday I had been feeling a little sick here and there, mostly just my stomach being upset. In case you are wondering…no I am not pregnant! So the rest of my weekend was spent lying around, getting some much needed rest.
To be honest, Memorial Day never meant much to me before I was an Army wife. I always just looked at it as a day to BBQ and drink till you pass out. I didn’t give much thought to the men and women who have given their lives, so that we can live the way we do. Now living in this life makes it all real for me. Yesterday I saw so many powerful photos on social media. Photos of women holding their newborn babies by graves of their husbands. Photos of children saying goodbye to parents as they were about to deploy. So many men and women have left their families and never returned. I can’t image John leaving to deploy and not coming home to us. We haven’t had to deal with a deployment yet, thank god. But, it makes me want to cry just thinking about it. So now when I think of Memorial Day, I don’t think about partying and BBQs, I think of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.