I was browsing through the Black Friday ads and landed on the Sears page. When I came across the link to this page: Heroes At Home Wish Registry
WOW!! Way to go Sears! What an awesome thing to do for the family of our brave men and women. Thank you to Sears for remembering that we serve too! I am really impressed with Sears! On one of my daily blog readings I read this: Let's Shop At Sears!
Let's do our part and support Sears for supporting our troops and their families!!!! WOO HOO Sears!!!! (By the way, I also saw a commercial that they have layaway too!!!) Go Shop At SEARS!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving & Black Friday Shopping!
Friday, November 21, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Thankful
We are a week before Thanksgiving with Christmas carols on the radio, advertisements on the tv and in every store for Christmas. What about Thanksgiving? Has it just become the holiday before Christmas. I love Thanksgiving. I love having a house full of people, enjoy good company and great food. Slowing down to be grateful for the blessings in my life. The PickupMan keeps saying can we just get through Thanksgiving and enjoy it before they shove Christmas in our faces? Don't get me wrong I LOVE Christmas! I enjoy watching Thing1 & Thing2 open gifts and create memories that they will carry with them forever! Personally it is my favorite holiday, I love decorating for it and the smells that come along with the season.
But really do we slow down and take the time to be thankful and grateful for the things that are in our lives?! Thanksgiving was created for that reason. To be thankful for the blessings that have happened all year long. New friendships, old friends, pay raises, new jobs, old job, new adventures, new children, the children we already have, the good grades, the new house, the old house, etc. I think that we have the tendency to get caught up in being prepared for Christmas that Thanksgiving kinda slides under the radar. I am so excited about Thanksgiving this year. We are going to a neighbors house with a few of the other neighbors. Everyone is bringing something to share. This is the first year that I haven't cooked for a house full of sailors! I miss that but I am so excited about this year! Everyone bringing something special to their Thanksgiving to the table.
So I thought I would slow down a little bit and remember the things that I am thankful for this year!
I am Thankful for:
My amazing husband
My great sons
My Family
Friends, my true friends that are the greatest blessing and the new ones that I have made and how wonderful they have been
The fact that we can pay our bills and there is a roof over our heads
The men and women that serve our country so that it can remain a great country where we have a holiday to slow down and be thankful for the fact that we live in a country where there is freedom!
I could go on and on for hours about this, but those are just a few of the many things I am grateful for. Are you really going to slow down and enjoy Thanksgiving or is the Christmas rush pushing it to the side until the day where you cook the turkey and watch football?!?
But really do we slow down and take the time to be thankful and grateful for the things that are in our lives?! Thanksgiving was created for that reason. To be thankful for the blessings that have happened all year long. New friendships, old friends, pay raises, new jobs, old job, new adventures, new children, the children we already have, the good grades, the new house, the old house, etc. I think that we have the tendency to get caught up in being prepared for Christmas that Thanksgiving kinda slides under the radar. I am so excited about Thanksgiving this year. We are going to a neighbors house with a few of the other neighbors. Everyone is bringing something to share. This is the first year that I haven't cooked for a house full of sailors! I miss that but I am so excited about this year! Everyone bringing something special to their Thanksgiving to the table.
So I thought I would slow down a little bit and remember the things that I am thankful for this year!
I am Thankful for:
My amazing husband
My great sons
My Family
Friends, my true friends that are the greatest blessing and the new ones that I have made and how wonderful they have been
The fact that we can pay our bills and there is a roof over our heads
The men and women that serve our country so that it can remain a great country where we have a holiday to slow down and be thankful for the fact that we live in a country where there is freedom!
I could go on and on for hours about this, but those are just a few of the many things I am grateful for. Are you really going to slow down and enjoy Thanksgiving or is the Christmas rush pushing it to the side until the day where you cook the turkey and watch football?!?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Veterans Day
I found myself browsing websites and I stumbled on these articles. I thought that I would share them.
Wounded Warrior
Among Veterans
Wounded Warrior
Among Veterans
A Little Bit Of Info
So I've started this blog as a place to vent and to perhaps put out some information that will be helpful to other navy wives. Maybe even let them know that they aren't alone in their frustrations. I have always found that writing is a great way to get things out of my head. Almost a stress reliever!
So a little bit about myself so that you can have some idea of who I am! I have been a navy wife for ten years. My hubby, PickupMan, and I have two boys that I will refer to as Thing1 and Thing2. We have moved a lot in those ten years! But it has provided me with a wealth of knowledge about life and people. Yes, I am a digit and so is my hubby...no matter how much he tries to deny it! He loves his job(on most days) and serving our country on submarines. We are currently on shore duty and it has been a strange yet nice experience thus far. I am learning to adjust to having him home(which I am really enjoying...we have supper together almost every evening...strange I know!) and he is learning to adjust to not going out to sea. In turn he has picked up a project car and is in the garage working on it as I type.
I have some great women in my life who have quickly become family. Quick bonding comes with the Navy lifestyle I suppose. I am so grateful for and blessed by the sisters that I have found over the last ten years. I believe that each of them was put in my life for a reason. I have watched these woman be some of the strongest people and in the same breath be the tender wife and/or mother. They have taught me many lessons that I carry with me. Each of the is different and special but the one thing we all have in common is the love for our husbands that our proudly serving our country. I have also had my fair share of acquaintances. You learn a lot from living in housing! (For those of you who live there now or have lived there, you know exactly what I am talking about!) And I believe that I have even taken a little bit of wisdom(or lesson learned) from each of those women too.
I dabble in photography when I get the chance. I love to capture moments not just pictures. I believe that each picture is a moment in time that is forever captured. (PickupMan will tell you that is evident in the huge box of pictures we tote with us from duty station to duty station!) I have the best of intentions to scrapbook, but it never seems to happen! LOL I will start a page or two and then life tends to get in the way or I'm out taking more pictures! I am a jeans and sweatshirt kind of girl. I love to be home with my family. I read as often as I can. I am on the phone a lot, it's the best way to keep in touch with all of my "sisters." Now I am just babbling, which I am also very good at! SO this is my first blog and a little bit of information on the "DigitWife."
So a little bit about myself so that you can have some idea of who I am! I have been a navy wife for ten years. My hubby, PickupMan, and I have two boys that I will refer to as Thing1 and Thing2. We have moved a lot in those ten years! But it has provided me with a wealth of knowledge about life and people. Yes, I am a digit and so is my hubby...no matter how much he tries to deny it! He loves his job(on most days) and serving our country on submarines. We are currently on shore duty and it has been a strange yet nice experience thus far. I am learning to adjust to having him home(which I am really enjoying...we have supper together almost every evening...strange I know!) and he is learning to adjust to not going out to sea. In turn he has picked up a project car and is in the garage working on it as I type.
I have some great women in my life who have quickly become family. Quick bonding comes with the Navy lifestyle I suppose. I am so grateful for and blessed by the sisters that I have found over the last ten years. I believe that each of them was put in my life for a reason. I have watched these woman be some of the strongest people and in the same breath be the tender wife and/or mother. They have taught me many lessons that I carry with me. Each of the is different and special but the one thing we all have in common is the love for our husbands that our proudly serving our country. I have also had my fair share of acquaintances. You learn a lot from living in housing! (For those of you who live there now or have lived there, you know exactly what I am talking about!) And I believe that I have even taken a little bit of wisdom(or lesson learned) from each of those women too.
I dabble in photography when I get the chance. I love to capture moments not just pictures. I believe that each picture is a moment in time that is forever captured. (PickupMan will tell you that is evident in the huge box of pictures we tote with us from duty station to duty station!) I have the best of intentions to scrapbook, but it never seems to happen! LOL I will start a page or two and then life tends to get in the way or I'm out taking more pictures! I am a jeans and sweatshirt kind of girl. I love to be home with my family. I read as often as I can. I am on the phone a lot, it's the best way to keep in touch with all of my "sisters." Now I am just babbling, which I am also very good at! SO this is my first blog and a little bit of information on the "DigitWife."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
