My Homecoming

The most exciting time of a deployment is homecoming. This deployment was my first, and I was super excited. My husband was supposed to come home after Thanksgiving, but plans changed due to the mission. His ship and several others had to turn around. The one thing my pregnancy has taught me is to roll [...]

Oh Baby

Since my delivery, life has kind of sped by me. I feel like if I blink anymore, my precious baby will be a grown woman running off to college and getting married. I’ve forgotten how exciting and precious these first few months to a year of life are with an infant. Unfortunately, my husband B [...]

Thankful for Cloth Diapering

Many of us have a lot to be thankful for: roofs over our heads, food in our bellies, and people who love us. I have all of those and are thankful for those things everyday, but I’ve recently discovered something I’ve overlooked for the past few weeks: cloth diapers. I don’t know what I would [...]

Are cloth diapers for you?

Cloth diapers are no longer a thing of the past. They are certainly NOT the same as  they were back when we were growing up, or when our parents were growing up. They are now a hot booming industry of fashion forward and eco-friendly covers and inserts that are easy on the eyes and pocket-book. [...]

Deployment Day

PEARL HARBOR (Sept. 21, 2012) Families of Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) watch as the ship departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Hamilton is scheduled for a 10-month deployment to the western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tiarra Fulgham/Released)   Day One of a deployment is [...]