Just wanted to say hello to my man in blue (or desert tan) who may or may not be looking at this site from overseas! I love you and I miss you very much hope to see you soon!
Also hello and much love to the rest of the Guys and Gals at the (insert unit name here)!
Hello Adam who always says hello to me...Thanks for being a pal to my guy!
Much love and grateful blessings! Praying for a safe return! Kwick
Hope is a wonderful thing.... Sometimes there is too little of it. Love is a powerful thing... Sometimes it is miused. Life is a beautiful thing... Sometimes it is too short. Enjoy and embrace all that you can!
Once in my lilfe I considered myself a hippy (sometime in 90's)... Today my husband is an airman in iraq. Once in my life I thought I was very opinionated and they were good ones too... Today on most things I may have a stand but I am not sure I could defend or debate it. I see articles on the war for and against...both I guess have good arguments. My thought is this (maybe uneducated or well unresearched for sure) Soldiers have come home and told stories of horrors and stories of people welcoming them grateful they are there. We haven't leveled a country...heard that suggestion too. I am too close or far away to know what I really think about the whole thing. I know I am proud of our servicemen and women who don't spend so much time talking and thinking about all the controversey but rather act on the oath that they took. I certainly hope we do not get to a point where they are treated like those who came home from Vietnam. Then there is the whole immigration issue. I know that there were people who were immigrants that perpetrated the attacks on 9-11. But here is the thing weren't most of them here legally? Why are we pushing the issue with immigrants from Mexico...and are we doing more screenings when people do apply for Visas? I don't understand the whole immigration and visa situation any way. This country was built by immigrants. We are a melting pot supposedly. But then what happened? We got proud (as we should be) and excluded outsiders? Who is an outsider? Why is the land of the free able to determine who gets to be free and who doesn't. Why is it that we have an open border with Canada and not with Mexico. How do all those things get decided. I have worked with Mexican Immigrants for a few years now...mostly we don't talk about the circumstances that got them here. I know that they are a hard working people. I know that mostly they love where they came from but something drove them here. They go back and forth risking freedom for a small taste of what we have here...which is what...prejudice and scorn. We are all the way across the world to liberate a people...that probably needed our help. So what is the problem with helping our neighbors in the South? They come here so what? Why not share this country we are so proud of? What makes us so elite? I hope today that the boycott they are having across the country in different ways shows someone somewhere that we need them as much as they need us. We had a scare here last week and there were factories that shut down because the immigrants stayed home for 2 days. The meth problem is bad these days and that has nothing to do with immigrants...our jails are full of poor white men and women who have abandoned their children and families and their jobs for Meth. I have never met a mexican family who lets their children go hungry or dirty..although I am sure they exist. I have met plenty of other people born and bred American citizens who have allowed their chidren to be tortured because they take everything for granted that we have in this country. Oh I have gotten of on a complete tangent now. I obviously have no problem with immigrants illegal or otherwise. I have serious love for service men and women who sacrifice lives and time spent with families to fight for the beliefs of this country. Isn't there some way to combine all that and take some of that effort to live in harmony with our neighbors on this side of the ocean? Maybe I am just looking at a small picture but it is the one I am presented with every day right here in my home with my husband overseas and those here debating if he should be there. Sure I want him home more than any words could say. So what is the solution...I think that there will always be opinions and never any way to satisfy everyone...you pick your battles and do what you can at this very moment. Even the government has to chose battles and which ones are pressing for the greater good. I am not in those positions. I am a wife holding things together at home and wondering what is the next best thing. What is my opinion? What do I think? I think my son needs some time and that there will always be something to fight for and someone needing saved. Here or across the sea. God hlep us make the next right choice. Grateful blessings all. Kwick
Whatever "It" is. Life I guess. There was a time full of contempt... There was a time full of fear... In that time there was also love... A guardian who did not protect... Those who knew and would not say... Feelings of helplessness and shame... And then what... There was a time of apathy... There was a time of denial... Those times were used to explore... How well will I do... What do I want and who will I become... Now... There is a confusion... There is a yearning... Discovery can be a beautiful thing... But what to do with all those times... Hearing the words a that may no longer be needed... Pretending? Forgiving? Just moving on? Is it honest? No expanation... Not comfortable yet not uncomfortable... It is just a funny thing.
To hear you say you love them.. Good morning sunshine... Snuggle time... To hear their favorite book read a million gaziollion times... To jump in puddles... To play in dirt... To touch worms and other gross stuff... To be encouraged to be creative... Arts and crafts.... Sidewalk chalk and bubbles... To play some team sport at least once.... Days when they are "in charge"... To HAVE A VOICE that is heard... Someone to teach right and wrong... To know about God... Someone who is all about them.... To know that any emotion is ok to feel... To be taught appropriate ways to express anger... To be allowed to throw tantrums...everyonce in awhile... To be sent to their room to throw the tantrums.... To have boundaries.... To feel apart of... To be loved!
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