Blog every day in May: Days twenty one and twenty two

Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives

Okay all! Here is a list of all of my favorite posts!

 

Finally

Leo Hayman

A toast to my amazing family and friends

Fireproof Marriage

True Life: We just received orders to Alaska

A home sweet home weekend, baby Austyn and reenlistment

Finding blessings during deployment

A deployment letter to my husband

Day 22, Wednesday: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)

Ha oh goodness, you asked for it! Now, most of these rants are about certain kinds of people because I simply cannot take it anymore. If I sound mean, oh well. I don't really care. Sometimes a girl must rant! 

 

1. People that manipulate other people: Okay, I cannot stand these type of people. I mean, really? How about you try and help yourself instead of manipulating other people to do it for you? Now, I am a very friendly and nice person, and I try to help people as much as I can, but I get manipulated and taken advantage of very easily and I'm sick of it. I almost never want to help anyone again because I get used half of the time. It's like I help someone once and all of a sudden I am supposed to do everything for them. It is almost as if I have the words "please walk all over me" on my forehead or something! No dice anymore people. I will help you, but I will not be used in the process!

 

2. Things not going as planned: This weekend we are going on a family trip to Massachusetts for my cousin's wedding and to do stuff in Boston as a family. Of course my husband's leave would not be granted, so now I have to go without him. At first I was all mad at Jarrett, but then I calmed down and realized that he could do nothing about it. It just pisses me off because Jarrett and I never get to go on trips together. There is always something in the way whenever we try to plan anything. I always have to do stuff without him even when he is home. It just makes me so mad that I had to spend four months without him and now that he's home, because of all of the stuff that he has to do with these orders, he cannot take leave at this moment even though we've had this planned for a while. Argh!

 

3. People that think their opinion is the only opinion: Yes, it's okay to have an opinion, but when you are always forcing your opinion on others as if there is no other way of thinking, it gets a little annoying. I realize there are a ton of different personalities out there, but come on people. Sometimes you just need to keep your opinions to yourselves!  Ughh especially people that have to make their political opinions known constantly! Oh, and the people that post their annoying political opinions and rants on Facebook. On Facebook? Really? Just keep it to yourself please. 

 

4. Rude people that come into my store: I work at a Hallmark store and my goodness the women that come in there are rude. Now, a majority of our customers are amazing, especially the regulars that come in. For the most part though, there is always some woman that comes in there and acts like she owns the store. News flash, you do not own our store. You are no better than anyone else. I don't care how much money you have or what kind of job you have, you are still no better than anyone else, so please do not come in our store and boss me or my girls around like you own us. It's not that hard to come in a store and look for what you want on your own without asking ten thousand questions or barking orders at a sales associate. It's really not that hard. 

 

5. People that rant on Facebook: True, if it bothers you that much then delete the person. I've heard it ten billion bazillion times from people. I personality don't like to delete people unless I have a huge reason to, and this is not a huge enough reason to delete someone. I mean, I'm not gonna throw a hissy fit and delete someone for venting on Facebook. I just think it's annoying when people post these statuses complaining or stating their opinion and then they get all these people commenting on the status that are arguing with them about it. You are asking for it. If you know that by posing it that you will start an argument, then why post it? And then these people wonder why everyone is fighting with each other on their Facebook page. Ha, seriously? 

 

Okay, end rant!

What peeves you?

Have you ever just wanted to vent and rant?

 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day nineteen

Today's topic in the #BlogeverydayinMay challenge is "Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them!" There are so many amazing bloggers our there that I look up to as a fairly new blogger. There are definetly five that I can single out for this post. They are phenomenal women with passion and drive, plus they all have really cute and adorable blogs. These women are my blog role models, plus role models in real life. 

1. Sarah from The Not Quite Military Wife (www.thenotquitemilitarywife.com). This lady is a fellow military wife and she is awesome. She is a brand new mommy and already had to deal with having a newborn during a deployment. Wow! Having to deal with your husband being deployed right after your daughter's birth is not an easy thing and it certainly wasn't easy for Sarah, but she held up the fort being strong for their baby girl. Such an inspiration. I might be hitting her up for advice in a couple years when we have our first child. 

2. Katie from Katie Did What (www.katiedidwhat.com). This girl cracks me up so much. She is so cute. I love her blog because it explores so much from fashion, to all of the things that she loves,  to her weekends with her husband watching Lifetime movies together. She has been through so much in her life, but she has come out on top every time. All you have to do is read one of her posts and you're in love already. Plus I kind of like her name!

3. Ashley from The Sweet Season (www.thesweetseasonblog.com). I love love love Ashley's blog. Her blog covers EVERYTHING from recipes, to the cutest DIY projects, to her own photography business, moving around for her husband's job, her adorable puppy daughter Bella, and her pregnancy with her little boy. One thing that I truly admire about her blog is that she lays it all out there. She doesn't hold back her feelings for anyone. She writes in detail about some of the hardest times in her life and I think she deserves a medal. 

4. Jill from Baby B (www.jcandbabyb.blogspot.com). I have personally known Jill probably ever since middle school. We went to middle school, high school and some college together. She started her baby blog after finding out that her and her husband Colby were expecting their first child, a baby girl named Brooke Nicole. What makes Jill's blog so neat is that she documented her whole pregnancy through her blog. She used a cute chalkboard to do her weekly baby bump photos as well. She gave me the idea to start a baby blog as well when Jarrett and I become pregnant with our first baby. Such a great idea!

5. Samantha from Hooah and Hiccups (www.hooahandhiccups.com). Samantha is another military wife having to deal with deployments while being the mom to an adorable baby boy. She started her blog during a tough deployment. She is a lot like me because blogging becomes our way of coping and getting through those hard deployments. Blogging keeps us sane during those times. Much like Sarah, she has to hold down the fort with her baby boy when her husband is gone. I will be asking her for advice too when my time comes. 

If there is one thing that I have learned from blogging, it is that we are all so much alike. All of our stories intertwine some how and it is such a comfort to know that I can read someone's blog and know exactly what they are going through. No matter how different our lives may be, there are so many similarities. I can't tell you how many times I have read a blog and felt the same way that those ladies felt or went through the same thing that they went through. It is such a comfort to know that we are never truly alone. 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day eighteen

Today's topic in the #BlogeverydayinMay challenge is "tell a story from your childhood." Haha boy do I have plenty of stories to tell, but there are a couple that stand out well among the rest. 

So, when I was in kindergarten I was known as the "out there" child because I basically had no filter. Now, I have a little bit of a filter, but back then, not so much. Back when we still lived in Sandford, NC and I was going to kindergarten at our church. Every day we did the whole "sit in a circle on your carpet square" kind of thing. On this particular day, of which my mom always let me pick out my outfits for school, I had picked out this cute little dress to wear for school. On this day, in true Katie fashion, during story time, I decide to lay down on my carpet square and flash my underwear right to the class. Nice, right? Not only did I do it once and was told not to do it again, I did it twice. Yep. Oh, but this isn't the funniest thing that I did in kindergarten. 

On another day, we were learning about colors and what other colors are made when you mix two colors together. My teacher was demonstrating colors by using a fire truck. She would teach us the colors and then point to a specific color on the truck for us to point out which color it was. She points to the truck all together and everyone in the class except me yells "RED!" After everyone yelled the color together, I yelled something of my own. I yelled, "It's not red, it's WED!" That was how I pronounced the word red. Yep. Then a boy in my class proceeded to tell me that it was not pronounced "WED", but "RED" and then I got all up in his face real good saying, "NO, IT'S NOT RED, IT'S WED!" I was one mad kindergardener and the boy was a tad bit scared of me!

Both of these moments are also on film so every once in a while, my mom and I will watch it together. These two moments are moments that my family will NEVER let me live down! 

 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Days five and six

Okay here I go again neglecting my every day May posts! I think I picked a bad time to start doing this with my husband coming home and all! From here on out I promise to update every day! I love doing these posts because they test you to blog on days you don't normally blog. I like to be tested!

Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don't have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member

-Since I am a new blogger, I do not have a lot of blog friends just yet! I have some blog acquaintances, but none that I have really gotten to know or shared a lot of myself with. Since I don't have any blogger bff's yet, I would love to profess my love to every military wife blogger out there. I have seen so many amazing military wives out there blogging their hearts out about this complicated beautiful life that we live. It seems that many of us use blogging as our main coping mechanism with dealing with the military and long deployments. I think that is what makes so many of them great! The fact that they have the courage to write about one of the most difficult things ever is so astonishing to me. This is why I started blogging! I realized that there were so many women just like me that had so much to say and weren't afraid to put it all out there. This is why I love them. They all gave me the courage to do one of the things on my bucket list: start a blog to blog about my life as a military wife. Thank you so much to all you military wives! You are all truly amazing!

Day 6, Monday: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?

-I do so much. By day I work full time retail at one of my favorite stores. I am pretty much the assistant manger because I do so much during the day to help my store manager. I do a lot behind the scenes and in the scenes when I take care of the customers. I am my manager's eyes and ears and I have learned so much with this job.

Although I have this job and am very blessed by it, I am an avid full time job searcher as well. I hold two degrees and am searching for my first full time position and career path. This seems to be a never ending job for me, but I keep pushing forward. I am also a seeker of more education with wanting to obtain my masters degree in either Business or English. Go big or go home, right?

Aside from the career and educational aspects of "what I do", I am a daughter, sister, best friend, wife, daughter in law, sister in law and fur mommy. I am a southern girl, avid reader and writer, avid blogger, target shooter, gym goer, home decor lover, dachshund obsessed, reality TV watcher, social media obsessed, organizer, crafter, list maker, planner, goal setter, chocolate lover, lover of baking and trying to cook a good meal, Christian, follower of Christ and lover of country and Christian music! I am many things and very proud of who I am and who I am becoming!

Friday Five and blog every day in May: Day seventeen

Happy Friday everyone! At this moment we are on our way to Maryland for the weekend. This is Jarrett's first trip home this year and everyone is excited to get to see him again! I hope you all have a great weekend! What do you have planned? Any weekend getaways planned?

1. So this week was kind of a rough one for me. Sunday I began sneezing and coughing a ton. I knew where that was headed. Then Monday my throat started acting up and getting scratchy and raw. Then came the runny and stuffy nose. Ut oh. It was sinus infection time again. I always get a winter and summer cold/sinus infection and it sucks so bad. I was so busy at work this week and didn't have the time to go to the doctor, so I took DayQuil and NightQuil religiously every single day! Taking them both every day and night definitely worked its magic on me because today I feel great again!

2. Since we only have have two months left of living in Virginia, there is no point at all for me to buy summer and spring clothing, which is killing me. Usually around this time of year I am making my list of spring and summer clothes to buy, but I can't buy anything because of Alaska. I keep seeing all of these cute dresses and bathing suits that I want to buy so bad. This morning I received an Old Navy e-mail advertising their new boho dresses and maxi dresses and it was pure torture. My manager told me that I should buy any dress I want and just wear the heck out of them until we move. I just might take her advice on that!

3. Today's topic in the #BlogeverydayinMay challenge is "a favorite photo of yourself and why." This photo is of Jarrett and I at our wedding. It's kind of self explanatory as to why I love it so much. Till this day I have no idea what I was laughing at so hard, but I guess it was funny!

4. The Office is OVER! Last night was the series finale and Jarrett and I were oh so sad about this. This was one of our favorite shows ever and we have our DVR set to record any episode that comes on. I really fell in love with the show with the story of Jim and Pam because their love story hits home to Jarrett and I since we also met and fell in love at work. So great! They also definitely ended it perfectly with Michael Scott coming back to be Dwight's best man. Love. Love. Love.

5. This weekend my baby brother graduates from college. I am so proud I could spit. I love this crazy guy so much and cannot wait to see how he takes on this crazy world. He is going to do amazing things, so you all better watch out. I cannot wait to be in the same room again where I walked the stage three years ago. I just might get emotional. 

I am also hoping to see this little bundle of joy this weekend. I miss my little Austyn so much. She is already growing up so fast and I hate missing out on it. Thank goodness her mommy posts so many adorable pictures to keep everyone updated that lives far away. I mean, you would probably miss that sweet face too if you couldn't see her every day! :P

Blog every day in May: Day fourteen

Today's topic in the #BlogeverydayinMayChallenge is "Ten things that make you happy". Oh boy do I have a list of more than ten things, but if I had to just pick ten, these are what I would pick:

1. My husband: Obviously my husband would be number one on this list. Even eight years later he still makes my heart beat out of my chest. He is the most cutest, sweetest, funniest, strongest, most hard working met I've ever met in my life. He does so much for me every day and I am so blessed to be his wife. I will love him forever!

2. Both of my families: I love my family so much. They are what gets me going every day. From my parents to my brothers to my husband and his family. They are all simply amazing and play a huge role in my happiness every day. 

3. Alaska: Yes! The fact that we will be living in Alaska in two months makes me really happy and excited! Yes, there are many things that I will miss about Maryland and Virginia, but Jarrett and I are going to be going on an amazing journey together and we couldn't be more thrilled about our future there.

4. My best friends: I have my best friends back home in Maryland and some pretty awesome friends that I've met here in Virginia. I feel lucky to have these girls. These ladies never fail. They are always there for me when I need a shoulder to cry on or just need a huge laugh! I mean who is a girl without her best friends anyway?

5. Chocolate: Chocolate owns my life. I love it so much. I could probably eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but then again if I did that, I probably wouldn't be happy anymore because I'd be fat, haha! But in all seriousness. Chocolate is one of the main foods that makes me happy not matter how I feel. It is my biggest comfort food. 

 

6. Our miniature dachshund, Leo: I love this little boy so much. He is the light of my life. It's amazing how he can make my day better just by licking my face or cuddling up in my lap. Pure happiness is what he brings to my life every day.

7. My puppy sister, Sophie: My huge love for dachshunds came when my mom brought this little sweetheart home. She is the most adorable thing. I cannot wait until we adopt a female dachshund some day. Her and Leo together are too funny and can turn the most awe full day in to the best day ever. 

8. Working out:  I love going to the gym. I use to be much more dedicated to going as I am now, but I am working on it once again. Going to the gym is one of those things that you have to push yourself to do even when it is hard. It may be hard at first, but then you feel absolutely amazing afterwards. Now that my husband is home, we are dedicating ourselves to going together four to five times a week. 

9. Reading: Ever since I was a little girl I was at the library. Books make me happy. They are my oasis. They are my quiet moments away from all the khaos of the world. My love for books ranges from romance novels to science fiction to  older books that I read in high school and college. Having silence in the house with a really good book in my hand makes me happy. 

10. LOVE: True love makes me happy. Period.

Katie<3

Blog every day in May challenge: Day eleven

Today's topic in the #BlogeverydayinMayChallenge is "sell yourself in ten words or less"! This is great considering I like to sell things and I like to talk...a lot, so here goes nothing!

1. Caring, 2. Faithful, 3. Hilarious, 4. Nurturing , 5. Loving, 6. Motivated, 7. Brave, 8. Sweet, 9. Spunky and 10. Determined

What are ten words that you would use to sell yourself? 

Katie<3

Friday Five and blog every day in May: Day ten

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic week just like I did. I know I have a job where I work weekends most of the time, but I still get excited when it's Friday! I think it's just a right of passage to be happy when it's Friday no matter what your job is!

 

1. Today is the tenth day in the #BlogeverydayinMayChallenge and today's topic is "embarrassing moments". I have had many many embarrassing moments in my 26 years of life, but I think one of the funniest was when my husband and I were at Bass Pro Shops. It was a hot summer day so of course I was wearing a cute little summer dress. We were walking out of the store and of course, since I was wearing a dress and all, I tripped on the sidewalk and face planted into the mulch! BAM! As soon as I got myself up off the ground my husband and I both busted out laughing so hard. It was hysterical! Jarrett even pretended that he didn't know me for a second, haha!

2. This has been the perfect week. Just having my husband home is perfect. We have been oh so busy ever since he came home and I LOVE it! This week we have been working out a lot together, eating healthier together, cooking healthier food together, cooking dinner together every night, playing with our adorable puppy and having family time with the in laws. I feel so blessed and happy to have him home. It is the best feeling!

The delicious bagel sandwich the hubby made for breakfast yesterday! So scrumptious!

3. I finally finished the Fifty Shades of Grey book series. I am usually a much faster reader, but lately I have put reading last instead of making it a priority like I use to.  Now that I am making reading at the top of my list again, I want to start doing a book review series so I can share with you my views on a particular book or series. I have always wanted to do book reviews because all I want to do after I finish a book is talk about it non stop! I am working on my Fifty Shades book review and will start posting soon so be on the look out! 

4. I have found a Yankee Candle scent that I am completely obsessed with! Summer Scoop is amazing! It is basically a wild berry ice cream type smell which is the perfect candle to burn to give your home that summery smell. We just got them in at my store and I had to buy it right away after trying out the votives from the outlet store. It smells so good that you might just try and eat it! 

5. I have a very busy weekend and work week coming up, but it is all worth it just to be able to spend time with family the next two long weekends! I am beyond excited! I always get even more excited when it is Jarrett's first trip home after a deployment! I just can't wait for everyone to see him again. We have a little less than two months until our big move to Alaska so any trips home or any visitors means everything and we are appreciating everything all the more!

 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day nine

Today's topic in the #BlogEverydayinMayChallenge is "a moment in your day" and it can either be just a photo or a photo with words.  

I had to post this moment, a father son moment. I absolutely love capturing moments of my husband with our mini dachshund, Leo. I always catch the perfect picture of them together and it always melts my heart. Leo is basically our first born child, so as you can see from previous posts, I kind of like to take pictures of him. He's a little cute, so I have to. It is just so nice to have Jarrett home again and it's even more awesome  to see how Leo reacts to him being home. A man and his dog is the sweetest thing! I love them both more than words can say!

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day eight

I am proud of myself for catching up and keeping up with these every day posts! Today's topic in the #blogeverydayinmaychallenge is "A piece of advice to others"! 

          

My piece of advice for you all today is to ALWAYS follow your heart and never give up on love. Now, I have been through my fair share of heart break, so I know what it's like to have my heart torn into a million pieces. I think this has happened to everyone no matter how much we try to cover up our feelings. After heart ache, we say that we are "done" and that we will never allow ourselves to fall in love again. I know I've said this more than once, but obviously I wasn't "done"!

I pushed forward after my heart break and I found love again. Real love. A love I have never felt or known before. When this love came along, I was scared out of my mind that it would be the same relationship that I had experienced before. It was not. Not even close. Here was this man that loved me and wanted to make our love last regardless of the military life and the distance that we would face together. This was unconditional love. This was it. 

Today I urge you that no matter what your circumstances are regarding love,  please always keep your heart open and you never know what will come your way. My story is living proof that love comes again and that when it comes, it comes better than we ever imagined! 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day seven

Today's May blog post is about things that you are afraid of. There are many many things out there that I am afraid of, but there are also things that I am so afraid of that these things consume me some days. 

1. Becoming a military widow: This happening to me terrifies me more than anything in this world. I think as a military spouse this is always on your mind no matter what branch they are in or what job they are in. Jarrett just came back from a four month deployment in Japan and I was completely out of my mind with worry when I saw that we could be going to war with North Korea. My husband had to deal with a lot of Korea stuff while he was there. When a wife's husband is deployed, she is literally on the edge of her seat the whole time. She is wondering what her husband is doing and praying that he is safe. She is hoping to never see two officers pull up in front of her house and knock on her door. The worry never goes away until her husband is home. My worry is gone for now thank God!

2. The death of a family member or best friend: My family and friends are the most important thing to me always and the thought of losing either of them makes me consumed with fear. The closest family members that I have ever lost were both of my grandparents and that was hard enough to go through. I have never been through losing a parent, brother or best friend, and I know so many people that have. 

Next to my husband the next closest person to me is my mother. She is my best friend and my rock through everything! I know I will eventually lose her and my father some day, but I just have no clue how to deal with that fact. I am a lover of God and I know my family members will be in a beautiful place with God someday, but just thinking about living this life without all the people that make up my life horrifies me!

3. Being told I cannot have children and never becoming a mother: From the time I was a little girl until now, I always knew I wanted to be a mother and a mother to as many kids as God would allow me. It is one of my biggest dreams. This longing to become a mother has come full force ever since I got married. I have been on birth control pills ever since I turned sixteen so I've been on them for ten years now. My husband and I would like for me to go off of my pills on our fifth anniversary which is next December and try to start our family. My biggest fear is that nothing at all will happen when I go off the pills. My mom had no trouble at all having kids so I hope that I am the same way. I know women that have no trouble getting pregnant at all; it just comes easy for them. I also know women that have had a terrible time trying and still after so many years of trying cannot conceive. 

We want at the most three to four children, but I worry that because we are starting a little later than most couples that that won't happen either! Right now, I am just learning to put our future family in God's hands. I am praying that it is God's will for us to have children and I am learning to just put it to rest and let him do his job. I might be pleasantly surprised if I just stop worrying about it so much! 

   

 

Katie<3

Blog every day in May: Day four

So I am still trying to play catch up with this blog every day in May link up! Now that my husband is home and we have the computer again, I will start to link up my posts for this link up. Blogger Mobil only lets me do so much, so I am looking forward to blogging on a real computer again! Any who! Today is day four of the challenge and today's post is "your favorite quote"! I just came across this quote on Facebook and loved it! This quote definitely describes how I have been feeling lately with just turning 26 and not having some things accomplished that I thought I would have done by this age. Sometimes I feel like I am growing up too fast to do certain things that I haven't done, but I am learning that it does not matter how old I am, I can still do all of those things that I want to do! I am still young even though I may not feel so young! We are never too old to make our dreams come true and we would all do well to remember that! :)

A blog challenge: Blog every day in May

I saw this wonderful little challenge at Jenni's blog @ Story of My Life and although I'm four days late, I definitely want to partake in this. Here are Jenni's rules and the daily list of topics for the posts:

1. There really aren't any rules. If you miss a day, you can make it up or skip it. The blog police will not come knocking.

2. I will be including a linkup option at the bottom of my post each day, so you are welcome to leave your links here for others to peruse, as well.

3. You can still post other things every day, too. I plan to do normal outfit posts, life posts, around-Austin posts, and sponsor posts just like usual.

4. I'd seriously love you if you also include the "blog every day in May" button (below) either on your sidebar or at the end of your posts, but again, the blog police will not come knocking. My main goal here is to get us all back to the basics of blogging, not to gain a million new readers (though I wouldn't mind that).

5. Here are the topics. You can be as creative and awesome or as boring and bland as you like with these. Take 'em and run with it. Use creative post titles. Interpret each "prompt" however you like. There's no wrong way to do it. Have fun.

Day 1, Wednesday: The story of your life in 250 words or less (or one paragraph... no one will be counting your words... probably)
Day 2, Thursday: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at. Take any approach you'd like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)
Day 3, Friday: Things that make you uncomfortable
Day 4, Saturday: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it
Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don't have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member
Day 6, Monday: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?
Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you're most afraid of
Day 8, Wednesday: A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.
Day 9, Thursday: A moment in your day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)
Day 10, Friday: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.
Day 11, Saturday: Sell yourself in 10 words or less
Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life...)
Day 13, Monday: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.
Day 14, Tuesday: Ten things that make you really happy
Day 15, Wednesday: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day - this could be "a photo an hour" if you'd like)
Day 16, Thursday: Something difficult about your "lot in life" and how you're working to overcome it
Day 17, Friday: A favorite photo of yourself and why
Day 18, Saturday: Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.
Day 19, Sunday: Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them
Day 20, Monday: Get real. Share something you're struggling with right now.
Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives
Day 22, Wednesday: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)
Day 23, Thursday: Things you've learned that school won't teach you
Day 24, Friday: Your top 3 worst traits
Day 25, Saturday: Something someone told you about yourself that you'll never forget (good or bad)
Day 26, Sunday: Something you read online. Leave a link and discuss, if you'd like.
Day 27, Monday: A letter to your readers
Day 28, Tuesday: Only pictures
Day 29, Wednesday: Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories. Use Grooveshark or YouTube to include them in the post
Day 30, Thursday: React to this term: Letting Go
Day 31, Friday: A vivid memory

Day 1: Story of your life in 250 words or less

I was born on February 10, 1987 in Fort Worth, Texas, so that makes me 26 years young! We moved to North Carolina when I was about a year old and we stayed there for a little over six years I wanna say. We then moved to Maryland for my dad's job. I have two brothers and I am the middle child! I have always been lucky enough to have wonderful family and amazing friends through out my life. I am so blessed because of all these people in my life. I fell in love in high school, but sometimes first love does not last. Sometimes second love does. I met my husband right out of high school. We met working at a restaurant together and the rest is history! He entered the Air force right after we started dating. We were together for four years before deciding to just get married at the courthouse. Our courthouse wedding was just as beautiful as any other wedding. Boom! As soon as I graduated from college I moved to Virginia with my husband where we are currently stationed, but not for long with our orders to Alaska! I have my Associates Degree in Business and my Bachelors Degree in English and I am still on my search for my career since it's hard to have a career when you are an Air force wife! My biggest goals in life are to continue to be an Air Force wife, have a great career or two and become a mother of three to four children while continuing to be a mother to our dachshund, Leo, and maybe more puppies! Dream big right?