Fabulous Army Life

My husband used to tease me about my iPhone ... which started when I bought it for myself for Valentine's Day last year while he was deployed. No box of chocolates for me! I got myself the latest and greatest in modern technology. =) After he got home and we took our Block Leave vacation (using the iPhone without ceasing to find restaurants, directions, reviews, and more), he has teased me less, but still considers it a bit frou-frou and my adoration for it a bit overboard. Well, Hubby's been gone for a couple of weeks now to Fort Sill, OK. Apparently there is some bad weather getting started up there today so he called to tell me that he gets to come home a day early … and will be home tonight! I'm very excited! When I told my 1st grader that Daddy was coming home today instead of tomorrow, he jumped up and said, "Great! Where is he now? Can your iPhone track him?" Crazily, I think there is an app that can do that ... but we don't have it. Not that I'm i...

I love to read. Really, really, love to read. When I was young, my mom used to ponder the fact that, as a public school teacher, she was constantly forbidding me, her own daughter, to read! Sounds odd, but she would only do this when I had, for example, gone upstairs to clean my room and become distracted by a book ... or spent an hour reading the newspaper instead of doing the dishes ... or was sidetracked from pouring my brother a bowl of cereal because I was reading the back of the cereal box. You get the picture. I have a true sister-soul-mate in this addiction. My husband's brother's wife, whom I love, is an avid book-addict, too. We share books and ideas constantly and both suffer from reading-induced insomnia. She told a story recently of starting a book before bed and getting so engrossed in it that she didn't realize how much time had gone by until her husband woke and said it was almost time to wake up ... the next day! Yes, this is the extent of our affliction. I...

So Hubby is gone for a three-week course at Fort Sill, OK ... Home of the Field Artillery. Hooah and King of Battle! We were stationed there in '97 for just nine months but it was a fun time ... pre-kids, lots of freedom, and a pre-9/11 Army that was much less stressful than today. The boys and I took a road trip up to Oklahoma this weekend to visit ... and to expose our kids to the homeland of the Field Artillery. Those of you that have been stationed there will recognize their favorite stops: Atomic Annie, Geronimo's Grave, Field Artillery museum, and Meers! Meers was once a miner's town that is now simply a store/restaurant. It's rustic and old and has the very best burgers ever made: 100% longhorn beef raised on the owner's ranch. If you get the chance, you should visit AND save room for the amazing cobbler as well (our favorite is cherry but they're all delish!). Okay, my restaurant review is complete! It was a fun trip and we're glad this is just a sho...

After two months' worth of mourning the accidental deletion of my old blog ... and same amount of time haggling with Blogger to please help me retrieve it or reuse my old blog name (neither of which were successful), I have ended my official mourning period and am back online! Having learned valuable online lessons these past weeks, I thought I would share with all my blogger friends these words of advice: Don't delete your blog. Really. It's quite inconvenient and I don't recommend it at all. =) I'm happy to be back online and look forward to reconnecting with former blogger friends. Now I'm off to find my friends to follow ... and play with more background options. Love the ones at "Cutest Blog on the Block" and I was so happy to reinstall my header (I missed her!!). Thank you again to @undomesticwifey for such a fabulous header design!! Please find me ... I look forward to following and discovering fun new blogs again!