A good day

Today we celebrated two of our daughter's birthdays. Normally we celebrate each birthday individually, but we have had party after party recently and we being military only know a few people at our new station and my almost 2 year old doesn't care when her party is. I say overall it was a raging success. We had two other families here with a total of 11 kids not including my own. 17 kids can eat a lot of cake! I say 17 although we had 18 because the baby is still far to young to eat cake. Pinata time was probably the highlight of the party. We had two pinatas and boy, I think we have some future major league players in our midst. They busted those things to high heaven. 2 cakes and 5 gallons of ice cream did not last long! It was such a hot day at 107 degrees that as soon as the pinata scavenge was over, they were back inside sucking down ice water and ice cream just to cool off.

At the end of the day my children were happy and exhausted which means they might let their parents sleep in a bit tomorrow although I doubt it. This weekend has been one event after the other. Last night we went on hot air balloon rides at a Balloon festival. Granted we were tethered and only got to go up about 15-20 feet, my children were still thrilled. This morning before the party they got to go to a church carnival. VBS is coming soon and they can not wait to be green comets and red rockets.



I like this new duty station. We have met such a nice group of people at church and we have wonderful neighbors to boot. I wish our time here could be longer than the 3 years we are assigned. The best thing about it is that my husband will not be going on long deployments while we are here. It is nice to have another adult around. 7 months or longer as a single parent is rough. It takes a mental and physical toll on you no matter how few or how many children you have. I know my thoughts are rambling. It is difficult to stick to one subject on a first blog because you question should you just plug right in and bare all or should you only give up to date blogs? I think mine will be a bit of both. More like an online thought filterer. If that [ filterer] is even a word. Well I suppose I will sign off for now. If you read it and are bored to tears, sorry! If you read it and wonder why I am still sane? Well the answer is by the grace of God and a having a wonderful mother as a role model of the virtue of Patience. god bless my mother. She deserves it and many other wonderful things.