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Survival Sister Party

October 22, 2009

When I first heard about the Sister Party hosted about Amber at TheRunaMuck, I just knew that it was something that I had to do with my own real life “sisters”.
I love blogging and the community and friendships that it creates, but it just cannot replace real life friendships with my girlfriends, my sisters.
Those friendships [...]

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Sesame Street USO Experience

October 6, 2009

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to take EA, MC, and Will to see a Sesame Street show for military families.
Actually I jumped at the opportunity as soon as it presented itself.
There are only a few children’s television shows that my children watch. Sesame Street is one of them. Elmo is a huge favorite [...]

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Deployment After Action Review (AAR)

May 29, 2009

The Army has a tool that it uses after a training exercise called an AAR (after action review). Using this tool turns those training exercises into learning processes to find out why things happened rather than to judge successes and failures.
On one of the welcome home banners hanging outside the gate of our post is [...]

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It’s Getting Closer…Some Scatterbrained Thoughts while Waiting

May 21, 2009

So…Keith is finally making his way home from Iraq. Yesterday he wrote about how he lost his laundry predicting it would take longer to leave Iraq than it actually did. Hey! I’ll take that kind of laundry loss any day!!
I can’t tell you exactly when he’ll be here for two reasons….
1. It is against security [...]