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27 June 2012 Home Away from Home

Home Away from Home

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I feel so blessed to have been able to spend time this summer at our home away from home with my parents.  My parents have a cozy log cabin up in the mountains of North Carolina.  My mom is the administrator of a non profit Christain ministry that hosts summer camps for children, teens and college and career.  We have had the pleasure of coming here for many years, mostly spending summers while David would be away or when we were in between moves.  We literally have stayed here for an entire summer while we have been homeless!  We have come to know and love the families that work for the ministry and enjoy being loved on while we are here.  And I LOVE being loved on and having people LOVE on my girls!  And of course this year is no different, I am enjoying the love that we are shown and the support that we have received with David being deployed!

This summer has been an amazing visit and a time of rest for me.  The mountains are always so peaceful to me and the view at my parents home is absolutely amazing!  I get to sleep at night by listening to the rushing waterfalls in the background.  Can you say HEAVEN!!

AND I sleep through the night here!  WooHoo because that is major for me!   There is just something about being at mama and daddy’s, no matter how old I am!

David is doing very well in Afganistan.  I am very thankful for today’s technology and how we are able to facetime daily IF his wifi connection is working!  We have some challenges with the connection, but most days we get to “see” David and that really helps, even if it takes 4 or 5 attempts!  He is working a lot, 18 hours a day, 7 days a week.  I guess David’s rest is not a priority during war!

Thank you to those of you who have left me facebook comments, comments on my blog, and sent me emails to show your support for my family, husband and the Military.  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!  Please continue to pray for our troops and for my husband’s safety.

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How’s your summer been?

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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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