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Brand New Kickapoo

We spent some time driving around Fort Leavenworth today and let me just say ... this isn't the post I remember. There are familiar sights, of course, but our housing area has been completely razed, cleared, and built again. And wow, is it an improvement. I remember my sweet husband checking into our housing a week before the boys and me ... and calling him to see how it was. He is life's eternal optimist and when he said, "It's ... [long pause] ... livable," I knew we were in trouble. It. was. terrible. The housing was tiny, old, moldy, creaky, and dirty. Totally unacceptable, totally below standard ... and we loved our year in it.  Sure, we had to pay monthly for a rent-a-fence that was likely installed in the WWII era and yes, I could hear my neighbor open her kitchen cabinets from my sofa ... and okay, there was a full pink Starburst wrapper encased in layers of yellow wax in my front foyer surrounded by dust and hair that was perfectly preserved under ...

NYC Trip: Sardi's and Broadway

One of the absolute highlights of our trip to NYC was getting to see our dear friends and former neighbors from Fort Hood days. They are currently assigned to a War College in Boston and I was thrilled that they made the trip! We enjoyed a very fun dinner at Sardi's catching up on careers and kids and life in general. We saw "Honeymoon in Vegas" on Broadway, thoroughly enjoying Tony Danza's character and had some good laughs. It was a fabulous evening with some equally fabulous friends.

Trick or Treat Dinner with Neighbors