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25 July 2012 Recreate and Re-create!

Recreate and Re-create!

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Good Morning!

I just got to share my latest AHA moment that I have had while starting my blog.

At the beginning, my intention for Recreate and Decorate was to share our home improvement, do it yourself projects,  with hopes to inspire you along the way!  I also wanted to share our experiences and challenges as a military family that we encounter  as we re-create our life in a new community, AGAIN for the 7th time.    Re-create is exactly what we are doing.  We are taking something that already exisits and we are making it new.  I know, clever right!!

I knew that my blog, Recreate and Decorate, needed to be something different, something more than just another one of the gazillion home decor blogs that are out there!  Like I have said before, I am NOT a professional home interior decorator, and David is not a professional contrctor, we are just an average couple who loves a beautiful home and who has learned everything about decorating and updating a home ONLY because we were determined that we could do it.

I’m not gonna lie, I have been in a funk for the past few years.  Just dealing with my nephew’s cancer as a family, in addition to doing so while living 1000s of miles away from family has been no joke.  As my girls get older,  and my role as a stay at home mom has started to change, I have found myself wondering what do I do now?

My  blog has been an answer to prayer.  It is allowing me to recreate myself  (revive myself, refresh myself).

Wow!  I get it, I am one of those millions of moms  who has devoted her life to her family, being a stay at home mom and an Army wife and somewhere during those years, my identity has been lost  placed on the back burner.  I said I would NEVER be one of those 40 something year old women who are trying to re-identify who they really are in this world.    Never say never!

I know there are so many of you that are reading this and thinking  ”wow, me too”.  Maybe you have known it for a while or maybe you just realized it.  Either way, it’s ok.   Let me tell ya, you are not alone.   

I know that this exact same funk has caused many of my friends to feel isolated and depressed, and basically asking “who am I”?

I get it.  But I also get the fact that every place you have been in your life plays a big part of where you are going!      If you let it!

I think this sums it up well!  Every step we have made has been made with a purpose!

Please share with me how you have recreated your life, how you have defined your purpose not only as a mom, wife, but as an individual!

 

 

 

 

 

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4 July 2012 Breaking News!

Breaking News!

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 As I am sitting here starting to write another post , I am listening to the news, reporting on the possible threat Iran has on the US and Israel and how US military posts in Afganistan could be blown away within minutes if Iran were to retaliate!  My heart literally dropped!

Father God Please protect my husband!  His safety is in your hands. 

This is NOT what you want to hear on the news when your husband is in Afganistan and he promises he is in a “safe” area!!   Safe being relative!  I know that is David’s way of reassuring me that he is ok, but he is in Afganistan, how safe is safe?  I mean within seconds something like this with Iran can happen.  And it is scary!

My heart goes out to the many wives that have lost their husbands during this war!  I just can’t even imagine!   I don’t know what I would do if…

I planned to blog about my first month without my husband but I decided to write about what I am feeling right now!  I don’t think there are words to even describe how military spouses feel every single day that we have our husbands deployed!  We look around and life goes on for everyone.  Even though we make the best of each day, David is missed, he is a HUGE part of our family and it just hurts to even think about what if!

As you go about celebrating the 4th of July, just remember to pray for the safety of our troops and my husband.  And pray for the families that are waiting each day for them to return home!

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That’s what Friends are for!

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I would like to say THANK YOU to a wonderful friend, Maria Elena!  Maria is a dear blogging friend, a fellow Army wife, and my blogging mentor!  Not only has Maria been an inspiration to me about blogging, but she also has been an inspiration to me when it comes to my husband’s deployment.  Maria featured Recreate and Decorate on her beautiful home decor blog,  Our Home Away from Home.  Please check it out, she did a wonderful write up on me!  And sent me much needed traffic!!!  Maria has shown me so much guidance and I want to Thank her for all of her help!

Maria is a retired ARMY wife, but once an Army wife, always an army wife!  As soon as she read the words “my husband will be deployed” she immediately made contact with me.  She has so much wisdom and experience with deployments, she knew exactly what I needed to hear!  She knew the feeling in the pit of my stomach, she knew the anxiety that almost takes my breath away, and she understands my fear for my husband’s safety!  She understands it all!  Thank You Maria and I pray that God Blesses you!

We are pretty new to Florida, we decided that we are going to stay in the area for as long as possible (10 yrs- fingers crossed) if my husband retires after 20 years,  therefore we chose to buy a home in an area that is not as transitional as a military community.  We wanted to be in a community that Hayley and Gabby will be able to graduate from High School with the same group of friends.  We chose a very lovely community and I love the area, however connecting with people, has been a huge challenge!  We have met only a few military families that live in our community.  Most families that live here are the “originals”, meaning they bought their home here 12 years ago when this community was being built.  They have a circle of friends already and we all know that it just takes TIME for a newcomer to enter those circle of friends!  This has really opened my eyes as to how much we do rely on the Army community, and how much my Army sisters mean to me!  Sometimes I laugh and say ” I think we must have 2 heads or something” because most people here just don’t understand me or my military life.  Please don’t get me wrong, I have met some wonderful people and have made friends with some really great women, who I am trying very hard to teach Army life 101 to, and I think they are  ”getting it”, maybe, at least one is, maybe two!  I am very grateful for their friendship and I know I can count on them to help me out!   But it just is not the same.  I do not think I can even describe it.  Army friends just KNOW how I feel, they just FEEL what I feel, and the connection is very real. I will forever be grateful to those special friends that I have met along the way!!

I am very grateful for Maria, she has a way of calming my fears, even if it is just through emails!  I am so grateful for her blog, that is what connected us to begin with!  I am so used to continuing my Army friendships online because one of us  ALWAYS moves away that blogging and connecting with wonderful people through my blog is not strange to me!

Once again THANK YOU Maria for your support!  That’s what friends are for!!

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