This bread is so easy and tastes so good. No worrying about rising or bread pans, just mix, let rest and bake. Ingredients: ½ cup luke warm water ¼ oz dry active yeast packet or 1 Tbsp of dry active yeast jar 1 cup whole milk 1 cup plain yogurt or plain Greek yogurt 1 […]
Listen (Tuesday@10)
Through the amazing community of Five Minute Friday I found another site to meet up with other bloggers and write on a prompt word. So this is my first week and the prompt word was Listen. I focused on what I listen to daily. The little boy who changed my life so much. I hear […]
Motherhood: The True Combat Zone
I thought I knew what it meant to be in a true combat zone. Then I became a mom and learned what it truly means to be in a combat zone all the time. No relief, no end in sight. Motherhood changed everything. I always thought deploying to Afghanistan would be the hardest thing I […]
A Reflection on My First Mother’s Day
My first Mother’s Day is fast approaching. It still amazes me that I have been a Mom for almost a year. Do you ever stop and think how quickly time has passed since you became a mom? Is it your first Mother’s Day? When my son was about 4 month old on a flight home, […]
Change #FMFriday
Sometimes you know your life is changing and other times life is changing so slowly you do not even see the changes. But things are always changing. My life has been full of change the last three months. We sold our house, moved in with friends, moved across the country and finally moved into our […]
Freedom
Oh to be free again. Life is funny. Often with each life situation you don’t realize the goodness of where you are until you are no longer there. Before having a baby I had this dream about what it would be like to stay at home with my son. It consisted of perfect days that […]
Drive Across the Country – From Ohio to California
It took a week to drive across the country. We started in Ohio and ended in California. We finally made it, it was a lot of driving. On our drive across the country, we drove through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and finally California. We Stopped A Davenport, IA (small town along […]
Going Home from Afghanistan: Hurry Up and Wait
Going home from Afghanistan is a lot of hurry up and wait. You probalby don’t realize the process it takes to get you from Afghanistan and back to the United States. Some of it makes sense, some of it is just a part of the military. Here is part of the story of going home […]
