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Is it really still July?

Words cannot express my relief that August will soon be here...although I know full well it will bring challenges of its own...ending one month and starting the next is like a breath of fresh air and boy do I need some fresh air. Fresh salty air with sand under my toes would be really nice, actually. July essentially compounded the stresses of this first deployment experience. Because on top of the obvious: being a solo mommy to our toddler living 12 hours away from both sets of doting grandparents; the less obvious: is that I am the FRG Leader for my husband's Company. What the heck is an FRG Leader? Basically, aside from having a toddler in the house, its the sole reason I haven't had the time, nor the energy, to blog this deployment. And probably is the reason why I don't respond to your emails or text messages in a timely fashion, if at all. But really, FRG Leader stands for Family Readiness Group Leader. In the Army, it's the leader of a volunteer organizat...
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Someone shared this article on the wonderful world of Facebook the other day and I really think it made some valuable points on, well, how we choose to spend our time in this thing called life. However, being a busy mama of three little people the FIFTY ways the author lists to "be happier and healthier" seems rather daunting to say the least.   So, after reading through the article in its fullness I went back through and marked off the ones that resonated with me. And I discovered that about 1/3 of the items on the list seemed doable to attain too in my current season of life. Call it almost being 30 or the *weight* of having children I want to leave a legacy for, but if you haven't read the article you should. In the meantime here are MY 15 takeaways and thoughts on the authors points... Reduce caffeine--> Okay, the author actually says eliminate . um yeah, right, I am a MOM. Now, I don't think caffeine is bad. I really love espresso an...
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