I'm officially Mrs. Kelly Johnson!!! Wow! I'm so excited. :-) I'm so happy to be married to the love of my life. I couldn't ask for a better husband. He's so sweet and loving and he adores nathan. And nate loooves having a daddy.

We got married at the Bay County Courthouse. Even though it was kind of a shotgun wedding (lol) it was very sweet and ( Read more... )

It's been a week now, and I'm still feeling like it's one step forward and two steps back... Mike and I were up till one am talking and crying (well, I was crying) and I just don't know if we're moving in the right direction, or if we're making things worse. I'll do fine for a few days, and then BAM, I'll get so upset and just lose it over nothing ( Read more... )

Lots of decisions to make in the next six months... Moving to FL, looking for a new job and daycare, filing for divorce (FINALLY) and getting engaged, hopefully ( Read more... )

So I'm hoping this will be a great year for me. I have a lot to look forward to. Moving to florida, getting engaged, getting MARRIED. hopefully going back to school, new job. new LIFE ( Read more... )

Well, we're almost getting close to being in the home stretch..I guess we have about.45 days to go.Sometimes I feel like it gets harder with each passing day. I don't honestly know how these army wives/girlfriends do the 12-18 mth deployments... I feel like 189 days is taking forever and a day. I am sad, lonely and irritable. And it doesnt make it ( Read more... )

OMG! I'm sooo excited right now I feel like I'm about to explode! Mike recorded a holiday greeting for me months and months ago and it played tonight ( Read more... )

Wow. Today is FINALLY the halfway mark for Mike's deployment. It feels like these past 3 months have taken FOREVER! I'm soooo glad it's half over, but we've also got just that long to go still! It's gonna take foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeeer. I miss him so much. I miss silly things about him, like the way he smells, or seeing his shoes sitting by the door, ( Read more... )

I asked nate what he wanted for christmas... He responded "just check out some cool games Mom." I guess he turned 13 when I wasn't looking...

Tonight, he was getting ready for bed and he said, "Mom, can I borrow the car? I'm big now, I can drive!" Scary. I asked him where he wanted to go and he said FLORIDA. To visit MIKE!

I had to remind him for ( Read more... )

The many things that are funny about being a mother... About 800 times a day, Nathan tells me "Mommy, you hurt my feelings!"

He says " Awww, mommy, you have great singing."

He wants oatmeal and applesauce for EVERY meal. He says "mommy I'm SOOOO hungry" or thirsty or hot or cold or tired or whatever. And he says "I don't feel better." every time it' ( Read more... )

16.5 weeks to go

I miss Mike! He's having major issues with his exwife and hasn't gotten to talk to his kids in over two weeks. He got so upset tonight that he nearly started crying, after calling her 26 times today just to talk to his kids. I even called!!! She answered and was very bitchy to me and told me she was on the phone with him... So I  ( Read more... )