It's all in the Eyes!

I remember when this guy...

was a wee baby. We lived in Fayetteville, NC/Ft. Bragg. One night Josh was flailing around in my arms playing when - OUCH - his little finger went into my eye and scratched my eye ball. It hurt - A.L.O.T!! Off to the ER on base we went.  We were put into an examination room that looked like it belonged in any eye docs office - mirrors on each side, eye charts..the works. There was a 2 foot  strip of yellow tape on the floor about about a foot from the wall - an eye chart on the opposite wall.

The doc told me stand behind the yellow tape and face the wall - so, I did. As I'm looking at the wall with my one good eye the doctor says...Mrs. XXXX, I meant for you to face the opposite wall. Yes - I was standing there facing a solid wall (my nose just about touching). Picture it...I know you will laugh!

Folks, that 'visual' of ridiculousness still cracks me up today and was by far one of my most embarrassing moments.

Until Saturday night!

Honey and I were watching the Alabama vs Mississippi State football game. Not far into the first quarter I looked at the TV and said these words....

Me: "You mean they've both got one point already"?
Brian & Rich: "No one has scored yet" - looking at me like I'm the crazy one...hmmmp
Me: "But they each have one point a piece" - looking at them like THEY are the crazy ones
Me: "See, right there...." (Picture Alabama 0 vs Miss State 0 on the scoreboard)

My eyes see the center of the zero = a ONE.

Yes, Peeps...this has topped my most embarrassing story! After the laughter died down I still caught myself laughing at random.

Happy Monday - Peace!

A Blogging I Will Go

Yes, folks....I have decided to NOT give up blogging. It doesn't matter that I have nothing of real substance to blog about...or that that my life isn't exciting, funny or remotely interesting. I have thought, words, stories and memories to document  ~ one day I will be old and not be able to remember what I felt at a certain time in my life...or, worse yet, I will be gone and there will be nothing left to remember.

Anywhoo....I'm going to blog!

Well, not today....not right now....I have just made my cleaning list and have a house to clean!!!!! Oh, let me just say that hard wood floors are gorgeous ~ but are a pain to maintain!!

Peace!

Blogging is an Interesting Thing...

When I started blogging 2 years and 3 months ago I was a hot mess! My parents had just died and then I kissed my husband off to war - all within a couple of weeks. A "Hot Mess" probably doesn't come close to the state of my mind that day in January 2010 when I Googled deployment and came across a fellow Military spouse's blog. Although her story was drastically different than mine I felt an immediate connection to her - and a door opened to me that I had never ever realized was out there. Blogging. She became my first follower and friend.

Throughout 2010 I blogged my hurt, anger, fear and life - to no one other than myself ...then I realized that other people would tune in to read what I had to say. And then they started commenting and supporting me from states and countries away ...each word was read by many and I truly knew that the many friends I found out there in Blog land - all of us in different levels in the same boat - got me through each and every day. The encouragement, shoulders to lean on, laughter and friendship that my blog friends extended to me played a huge part in keeping me from losing my damn mind. I will forever be grateful for the unconditional acceptance I received.

In 2011 my husband came home and we began and continued to find our balance and groove with our marriage, family, jobs and home life. Still I blogged and leaned on those relationships with other military (and non-military) spouses that I "met". As time passed I began to blog less - then even lesser.

It's almost the end of 2012 and I barely blog at all anymore. Life has gone on and some days only the weather changes. I think of things to blog about ...even write full blogs in my head that never make it to written words. I'm a different place in my life from where I started to where I am know. Life is just life with many different facets of life as an ANG wife, FRG Leader, professional in my field, mother to grown adult children and grandmother. Is it worth writing (or reading) about?

I'm at a crossroad now. Do I continue to blog or say that it's been a great healing for me and move along? I'm not sure what the answer is just yet. I'm going to come back in a few days with the answer.

Until then.

Peace