"Women in the military would be barred from serving in direct ground combat roles, under a House bill that sets Defense Department policy and spending plans for the upcoming budget year ( Read more... )

At five o'clock today I got a call saying that the USS Buffalo would be pulling into port at seven o'clock this evening. Which they did and all of us wives and parents and children sat around with the boat moored, taunting us. There we waited while little men who all looked the same scuttled about tying things to other things ( Read more... )

I am playing house to the smartest mouse on the face of the earth. I threw him out once already- but he found his way back. He has since figured out how to get onto my kitchen counter by climbing up the phone wire that was hanging to the floor. This mouse had a hidden stash of watermelon seeds bedhind the microwave. He has found a passage way in ( Read more... )

Feeling lonely ( Read more... )

I think I stumbled across my cousin. One of my four male cousins. That's saying something because I have 18 of them ( Read more... )

This was not a good time for the hipocratic Christians to rear their ugly head. Claire's boyfriend Kipp happened to mention to his mother that he was interested in the Bahai faith and she FREAKED OUT! I was unaware that his mother was so mean, but she called our family manipulative and a slew of other not so nice, very personal, things. As far ( Read more... )

I hate the Navy. They always say that the spouses are important to the miitary but I think they're just being politically correct. They don't care if they send my husband away for six months ( Read more... )

I'm doing well at the moment- although I am overcome with the desire to clean and organize. It's a sane way to be in control of things; just scrub it into submission. On a less sane note, I've been carrying my little doll, Glenie, with me all day. I've had her since, like, conception and I'm fully aware that this habit is a bit strange. Also, ( Read more... )

Although I can't technically say when Kristian is leaving, suffice it to say that it is soon. It wont be thAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAt long, but long enough for me to crave the safety net of my parents. But. I will go it alone if I can't get around this (at least) $1200 air line ticket ( Read more... )