Maybe We Will See Santa?!!

We are leaving on a jet plane and looking out the window for Santa's sleigh as we fly through the night tonight and get to London tomorrow morning. I am praying for an easy and safe journey and ready to see my family! We did Christmas food and presents with Mr Soldier's side of the family last night which was really fun and now its travel time. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, I will be back in January and will catch up with you all soon. xxx

Health

Madison gave us quite the scare the past few days as the Dr called us to bring her back in to get bloodwork done with her white blood cells being worringly low. We are trying to stay positive and putting it down to the fact that she was sick last week so her poor little body is still trying to get back on track so we are going to bring her back to the Drs again when we are back in January. It just makes me realise that this vacation is soooo needed. I am ready to get on that plane, clear my head, focus on 2012 goals and come back fresh, relaxed and ready to stay busy and healthy for my family and keep them all healthy too.

My Favourite

I will be back with more soon!

Army Times

We get the Army Times delivered to our house weekly so that we can keep up with events and information and yesterday named our post as getting the biggest BAH increase of 2012....Thank The Lord, it is expensive up here!

Madison

We had Madison's 18 month well baby check up yesterday..yes a month late! Anyway, the shots were a disaster as she definitely knows what is coming now but her latest stats are 26lbs and 4oz and she is 35 inches! Thats my beautiful daughter growing and healthy as ever : )

Thoughts about Daddys

The other day I was talking to Mr Soldier and we were counting down until our Christmas vacation and I said something along the lines of "9 days until I see my Daddy again" and he looked at me and said why just your Dad? He was curious as to why I didn't say 9 days until I see my family again and it got me thinking about a girl and her father. I talk to my Mum multiple times a week, I hear her say I love you on the phone, she hears me say it back, we have an amazing relationship. My brothers are teenagers and are way too cool for me and go through days of deleting me on facebook when they know there are going to be drunk photos of them on there that I might talk about and then they add me again once they have done damage control. But my Dad? Well we email ALL THE TIME but I don't hear his voice that much and I guess I just can't wait for that. I love him so much, I love them all so much, but my Dad? He is the best and I just want to cry when I think that I am over here so far away from him. When we settle down, we choose what is best for our new families and I chose to follow Mr Soldier around and live in America for him. Would I love to England and see my parents more? Absolutely. Maybe it is because of that. Maybe I am more excited to see him because I have Mr Soldier and I want my Dad to know he is still important too. Now I am just rambling....Anyway moral of the story, I am glad Madison has a Daddy as cool as mine : )

Check List

Things to do in the next 9 days

-Post office
-Best Buy
-Pack
-Work for 6.5 of them!
-Take Madison to see Santa
-Buy Mr Soldier clothes for the honeymoon
-Get an oil change
-Dry cleaners
-Order Photos
-Clean
-Pay all bills before we go away
-Madison's 18 month appointment

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That's My Man

Yesterday Mr Soldier called me to tell me that daycare had called to say Madison was sick and needed picking up early. Of course I went into hysterical Mum mode and ran out of the office to go and get her in my arms and to try and make it all better. Little did I know I was in for a ROUGH night. Madison was at the point where she couldn't even keep water down for more than five minutes so I did a lot of cuddling and even more laundry as I called Mr Soldier and told him that on his way home he needed to stop and get pedialyte, tylenol and a box of wine (the latter being for me of course!) Anyway, he did this for me and when he came in the door he pulled out a surprise for Madison. He was so upset that she was sick he had gone and bought her a My Little Pony! That is my husband, that is my baby girls Daddy and he has the biggest heart in the world. Unfortunately, he is currently upstairs in bed sick too as it seemed to have passed to him quickly but at that moment my heart melted : )

Sick : (

Now that I am on the road to recovery Mr Soldier is sick : ( We are going to London in 10 days for a vacation so pray we get better before then!

It's A Small Army

On Saturday night after watching the Army Navy Game we got invited with my FIL to his bosses house who he works with at the Pentagon. We decided to go for an hour or so and brought Miss Madison with us which was brave considering it was way past her bedtime and I am always anxious of her running around and breaking things in other peoples houses, especially a Col in the Army who I don't know yet! Anyway, it was a lot of fun and we got talking to some other people that were at the house and this one lady mentioned she had just come from GA too. As details were swapped Mr Soldier realised that this lady's husband had been his Battalion Commander in Iraq for two months when he was "borrowed" by another unit for a mission. How crazy is that?!! It is just another reminder that the Army is a small small world so always behave and don't be too sad to say goodbye to friends as they may very well turn up again!

About time...

The Army paid us woo hoo! We can now buy Christmas presents and just generally start living again with a promise from finance that they will never do that again : )

Weight Loss

Madison is 18 months old, I can no longer blame her for not fitting into my True Religion jeans, I can blame myself. You know how I came to this truthful realisation.....it was pretty harsh. I was on the floor playing with Madison and I joked with her as I pointed to my tummy and said "you did this to me" and what did Mr Soldier do?! He said no she didn't, you had her a year and a half ago, you are doing it to yourself. WOOOWWWW. That is so not a Mr Soldier thing to say. I cried but then I realised it was true and I probably needed to hear it. So here we go all over again, I am promising myself to lose two pounds a week if I can for the next few weeks and then I am going to fight to stay that size. Sure pregnancy makes you gain weight but it is up to you to get rid of it and only you.

Sick : (

My body failed me. I am sick : ( I will be back but for now I am going to struggle through and pray that I don't pass it on to Madison!

One Year Ago

This time last year I ran into Mr Soldier's arms after a 358 day deployment came to an end. I look back at it now and I wonder how we survived. You just do it don't you? An instinct kicks in and after the year is over it is incredible to think back about it. I have loved every second of this year despite the ups and downs as we ave really learnt how to be in a marriage and live together all at once after our previous long distance relationship. I love you Mr Soldier, I do not want to think about possible deployments in the future but you know what? If they happen, they happen and I will be here waiting. I will wait a lifetime for you ....

More Realistic Dear Santa...

Round two of the more sensible price range amount!!

Kate Spade Bracelet

Hunter Wellies

Victorias Secret

Sperrys

Decemberrrrrrrr

Yikes it is brrr around here! How is it December already?! This year has flown by and Mr Soldier and I have been counting down to this month, why? Because in 23 days we fly to London and in 27 days we fly to the Maldives for our honeymoon woop woop!!!