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Has been nuts! Trying to readjust to Timothy/Daddy, bee stings, Hail & Farewells, Change of Command ceremony, etc,etc! Tim starts leave tomorrow so hopefully we can settle a bit more and do some of the things we need to around the house-with the car-etc.
Reintergration as it's called in the military is a tough chore. Oh sure we are happy he's home! But, just like the stages of grief there are stages in this journey as well. We have to get to know each other all over again. And it doesn't help when you have three hormonal women in the house! Poor Tim!
We are planning some fun travels during the next 30 days -- Paris, Italy, visit friends in Holland,places around here, Amusement parks-- so hopefully that will work out. Then we have a couple months of "normalcy" and then we will move back to the States. I really want to get some scrapbooking/ crafts and school done as well.
Life is never dull! There are many times I wonder why we can't just have a more placid existence but the L-d know better than I and I am learning to trust Him. He has been showing me in a very tangible way that this world is not my home!
May each of us see His hand in our lives today.
Popularity...
Hello all!
Sorry it has been so long. We have been busy with a myriad of things as well as trying to get used to the fact that Daddy's home!
This morning I was reading the notes on the Democratic convention and I also received a email "letter" that is circulating about President Bush at church.
One of the things I have always appreciated about our president is that while you may not agree with his convictions at least you always know where he stands; and that he stands by them. With Mr. Kerry I have to wonder. He seems to waffle an awful lot - voting for the war and then voting against funding, saying the suv is not his but the family's, earning medals in war and then thowing them away?
When I was in high school I was not popular. Of course at the time I really wanted to be but my parents had taught me that it was more important to stand up for what you believe, be yourself, and do what was right than it was to be accepted. High School was hell for me. BUT I learned some important things.......
Like most of the popular girls (read :those considered pretty, fast, etc) never really got on with their lives after school - many are still in or around our small home town. Not because they necessarily want to be (I can't wait to get out of Tombstone!) but because they can't seem to move on, to explore the rest of the world.
I still get in trouble, feel unacceptable/like I don't fit in, much of the time. But popularity is highly overrated. My friend was laughing yesterday as we were talking, "Some of the things you say......." I was a bit hurt as well as confused.......But what I said was true!?. I know that I am often to quick to defend myself (again a product of high school) and I am working on that.
All of this is to say that being popular and making everyone like you is not the way to lead a country, family or group. It takes gumption, conviction and a willingness to do what's right and not necessarily what's popular.
I hope the American public will see that in the coming election and not let the loud voices of a few mask the truth. I worry about this country we love and serve.
Sorry it has been so long. We have been busy with a myriad of things as well as trying to get used to the fact that Daddy's home!
This morning I was reading the notes on the Democratic convention and I also received a email "letter" that is circulating about President Bush at church.
One of the things I have always appreciated about our president is that while you may not agree with his convictions at least you always know where he stands; and that he stands by them. With Mr. Kerry I have to wonder. He seems to waffle an awful lot - voting for the war and then voting against funding, saying the suv is not his but the family's, earning medals in war and then thowing them away?
When I was in high school I was not popular. Of course at the time I really wanted to be but my parents had taught me that it was more important to stand up for what you believe, be yourself, and do what was right than it was to be accepted. High School was hell for me. BUT I learned some important things.......
Like most of the popular girls (read :those considered pretty, fast, etc) never really got on with their lives after school - many are still in or around our small home town. Not because they necessarily want to be (I can't wait to get out of Tombstone!) but because they can't seem to move on, to explore the rest of the world.
I still get in trouble, feel unacceptable/like I don't fit in, much of the time. But popularity is highly overrated. My friend was laughing yesterday as we were talking, "Some of the things you say......." I was a bit hurt as well as confused.......But what I said was true!?. I know that I am often to quick to defend myself (again a product of high school) and I am working on that.
All of this is to say that being popular and making everyone like you is not the way to lead a country, family or group. It takes gumption, conviction and a willingness to do what's right and not necessarily what's popular.
I hope the American public will see that in the coming election and not let the loud voices of a few mask the truth. I worry about this country we love and serve.
Home at Last!
Timothy is here finally! He came in yesterday morning. We had a nice but rather anticlimatic ceremony at our local club. He looked so handsome in uniform and it was so good to have him home!! Friends of ours came to welcome him home and take pictures as well.
I will try to post more later!
I will try to post more later!
Leadership
Ok so things here are getting really annoying! Nobody seems to know anything about the flights. Apparently some have been delayed for other units that weren't there as long as us and it is really starting to get old! By the time they get done pushing flights back it's gone be September before they're home! Baumholder and Wisebaden don't/didn't seem to have these problems.
One has to wonder too about our senior leadership. Webster's 1828 dictionary defines leading as the following:
One has to wonder too about our senior leadership. Webster's 1828 dictionary defines leading as the following:
- LE'ADING, ppr.
1. Guiding; conducting; preceding; drawing; alluring; passing life.
2. a. Chief; principal; capital; most influential; as a leading motive; a leading man in a party.
3. showing the way by going first.
He left his mother a countess by patent, which was a new leading example.
LE'ADING, n. Guidance; the act of conducting; direction.
Rather than showing the way or passing life,those who are in charge here seem more interested in their own needs then the needs of their troops and their families! We would all like to have the opportunity to spend time with our loved ones and get to new duty stations. There has been no obvious concerted effort by our command to expedite the home comings.
Maybe I'm just grousing a bit but I am not the only wife in our BN who feels this way. We are all beginning to wonder........... How much longer? How hard can it be? Why can't the command step up to bat for us?
