Dear Deployment,
I wanted to thank you, for helping us grow so much. For making me stronger by having to go through something like this. We have grown so much closer despite having been so far apart. You have helped us to become more financially stable, as well as build confidence in ourselves and our relationship knowing that if we can get through this, we can get through anything. Deployment, I hated you at first, but that hate has disappeared, because you have given me much more than I ever expected. I can not wait to be in the arms of my sailor again, and I can not wait for him to meet his new and improved little boy. :)
Sincerely yours,
A happy Navy wife. <3
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Done with the challenge!
Finally. I've been putting off the last few posts lately, but I'm finally done. :)
So I have so much I want to talk about in here. For one, I have made a big decision for my life in this last week. I decided that I am going to pursue my bachelor's degree in nursing. I of course will have to finish my associates. But once I get that done i will start working on my bachelor's. I am so excited. I have never known anyone to ever be as excited about school as I am. I love being back in school and I love planning my future semesters and how I will work things out. I LOVE IT! :) Oh and also I am pretty much all set up for next semester back in Florida. Everything is in and registration starts this week so I can actually start signing up for my classes to. And the last step will just be to finish this semester with all A's and not to forget my transcript once it's time to leave.
Things are going well in the financial department as well. We have about $3000 in savings now. Which is awesome for only starting 2 months ago. I can't wait for income tax. Hopefully that will be another $6000 like we got this year and I will also be getting financial aid again. We won't have all of what we are saving up when we get back because December is going to be one of the most expensive months for us. So it is definitely a good thing we are saving. :) First of all, it's Christmas! I already started writing down what I should get for everyone, and I want to start slowly buying things now, that way I am not swamped with buying all these gifts at the last minute. Also, it is Joey's birthday. So I will kind of be combining his bday with Christmas but not really. Maybe like that week before or after but I will only buy him the birthday gifts and those will be for bday and xmas. He won't remember! And then that will be when Mark is coming back from deployment. So at the beginning of the semester I will be flying out to see him for homecoming, which will be a roundtrip ticket so I can come back here. Then on the 22nd his leave starts so he will fly here that day. And then about a week and a half later or so it will be time to DRIVE back to Florida for good. I can't wait!
I am also excited about something else. Well Mark's cousin Carrie is pregnant with her first baby. She is only 19 and her boyfriend is being a douche and has been good and been there this whole pregnancy and today she just told me he hasn't called or seen her in 2 weeks. So she changed her number and doesn't want anything to do with him anymore. She only has about a month and a half left or so. Well a few weeks back me and Mark were talking about them and we both agreed that we would love for her to come live with us. But we definitely didn't think she would want to. I had planned to talk to her about it when I felt was a good time, but I wasn't counting on it. I didn't think she'd want to leave and go so far away and be away from Martin even if they weren't together. Well when I found out about him not talking to her I told her about this and she actually said she was thinking about the same thing and has wanted to ask us about it at some point. That made me so happy! I can't even explain. I love Carrie so much and she deserves so much better than that guy and also deserves better than having to live with her parents because they are really not that great to her. I don't feel that their house would be the best environment for her and her new baby. So I am hoping that this plan stays in place and she really decides to leave with us when we do. Because we were both serious about it, we just didn't think she would be up for leaving. So hopefully it all works out and again I can't wait for this either. :)
OK well that is all for my night of babbling. "What are you babbling about?" I haven't made a REAL post in almost 2 months so it was about time. Goodnight.
So I have so much I want to talk about in here. For one, I have made a big decision for my life in this last week. I decided that I am going to pursue my bachelor's degree in nursing. I of course will have to finish my associates. But once I get that done i will start working on my bachelor's. I am so excited. I have never known anyone to ever be as excited about school as I am. I love being back in school and I love planning my future semesters and how I will work things out. I LOVE IT! :) Oh and also I am pretty much all set up for next semester back in Florida. Everything is in and registration starts this week so I can actually start signing up for my classes to. And the last step will just be to finish this semester with all A's and not to forget my transcript once it's time to leave.
Things are going well in the financial department as well. We have about $3000 in savings now. Which is awesome for only starting 2 months ago. I can't wait for income tax. Hopefully that will be another $6000 like we got this year and I will also be getting financial aid again. We won't have all of what we are saving up when we get back because December is going to be one of the most expensive months for us. So it is definitely a good thing we are saving. :) First of all, it's Christmas! I already started writing down what I should get for everyone, and I want to start slowly buying things now, that way I am not swamped with buying all these gifts at the last minute. Also, it is Joey's birthday. So I will kind of be combining his bday with Christmas but not really. Maybe like that week before or after but I will only buy him the birthday gifts and those will be for bday and xmas. He won't remember! And then that will be when Mark is coming back from deployment. So at the beginning of the semester I will be flying out to see him for homecoming, which will be a roundtrip ticket so I can come back here. Then on the 22nd his leave starts so he will fly here that day. And then about a week and a half later or so it will be time to DRIVE back to Florida for good. I can't wait!
I am also excited about something else. Well Mark's cousin Carrie is pregnant with her first baby. She is only 19 and her boyfriend is being a douche and has been good and been there this whole pregnancy and today she just told me he hasn't called or seen her in 2 weeks. So she changed her number and doesn't want anything to do with him anymore. She only has about a month and a half left or so. Well a few weeks back me and Mark were talking about them and we both agreed that we would love for her to come live with us. But we definitely didn't think she would want to. I had planned to talk to her about it when I felt was a good time, but I wasn't counting on it. I didn't think she'd want to leave and go so far away and be away from Martin even if they weren't together. Well when I found out about him not talking to her I told her about this and she actually said she was thinking about the same thing and has wanted to ask us about it at some point. That made me so happy! I can't even explain. I love Carrie so much and she deserves so much better than that guy and also deserves better than having to live with her parents because they are really not that great to her. I don't feel that their house would be the best environment for her and her new baby. So I am hoping that this plan stays in place and she really decides to leave with us when we do. Because we were both serious about it, we just didn't think she would be up for leaving. So hopefully it all works out and again I can't wait for this either. :)
OK well that is all for my night of babbling. "What are you babbling about?" I haven't made a REAL post in almost 2 months so it was about time. Goodnight.
Day 30::
Your favorite song.
Oh I have way to many for this. In country it would be anything by Carrie Underwood, or Zac Brown Band I love them. In hip hop r&b rap whatever it's Lil Wayne- I'm single. I haven't listened to very much rock in a while but my favorite will always be anything by Cold or Deftones.
Oh I have way to many for this. In country it would be anything by Carrie Underwood, or Zac Brown Band I love them. In hip hop r&b rap whatever it's Lil Wayne- I'm single. I haven't listened to very much rock in a while but my favorite will always be anything by Cold or Deftones.
Day 29::
In this past month, what have you learned?
I have learned a little better how to manage our money. Well more like in the last 2 months. I don't know about anything else haha. I can't think right now.
I have learned a little better how to manage our money. Well more like in the last 2 months. I don't know about anything else haha. I can't think right now.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Day 28::
A picture of you from last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Last year after my baby shower in October.
A little over a week ago at our OP Love photo shoot.
The difference between then and now.... well the most obvious is that this time last year I was pregnant for the first time with my little one. And now I am the mother of an almost 1 year old. It is so crazy to believe how much a year changes things. Another thing is, I was definitely happy last year. Things were going very well and we were preparing for out baby, but financially it was a little tough still. Now I am pretty much very close to the happiest I have ever been in life. I have the most precious little boy in the world, the most wonderful loving husband in the world, and we are doing so much better now. I am finally back in school and loving it. We are better off financially now. And we are almost through with our first deployment. I am so grateful for my life right now.
Last year after my baby shower in October.
A little over a week ago at our OP Love photo shoot.
The difference between then and now.... well the most obvious is that this time last year I was pregnant for the first time with my little one. And now I am the mother of an almost 1 year old. It is so crazy to believe how much a year changes things. Another thing is, I was definitely happy last year. Things were going very well and we were preparing for out baby, but financially it was a little tough still. Now I am pretty much very close to the happiest I have ever been in life. I have the most precious little boy in the world, the most wonderful loving husband in the world, and we are doing so much better now. I am finally back in school and loving it. We are better off financially now. And we are almost through with our first deployment. I am so grateful for my life right now.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Day 27::
Why are you doing this 30 day challenge?
It was just something to do to have something to write about. But since then I haven't written anything else BESIDES these things. I'll probably get back into my normal posts once I finish these. :)
It was just something to do to have something to write about. But since then I haven't written anything else BESIDES these things. I'll probably get back into my normal posts once I finish these. :)
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Day 26::
What do you think about your friends?
Of the few best friends that I do have, I can definitely say they are some of the best people in the world. I could not see my life without them, whether I see them everyday, or every 3 years. I love them all the same and I would never trade them.
Of the few best friends that I do have, I can definitely say they are some of the best people in the world. I could not see my life without them, whether I see them everyday, or every 3 years. I love them all the same and I would never trade them.
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