Best Wishes for a wonderful holiday

I have to say it... Merry Christmas!!! A little late I know but all I can say is whew. It was such a nice Christmas this year. I hope that everyone who celebrates Christmas enjoyed it. I know that not everyone celebrates this holiday so if you do not then I hope you had a wonderful winter holiday/celebration. I hope that with this time of year you may renew your spirit and find peace. I have.

Choices AKA Pro Con list

When I have a major decision I pull out the pro con list...actually I do it with big decisions and some smaller ones too...heck to some small degree all decisions get a quick pro con list (should I stop at that stop sign or do a CA roll...If I stop then there wont be a ticket but I could get caught by colors....on the other hand if I roll I might get a ticket and be even MORE late). Well I had to use the good old pro con list to make a major decision. I was offered the SLP position at the school here on base. The hard part of this decision is that I really like my current job. SO out I pull my pro con list and try to make a really hard decision. This is the first time where my list did not help with the decision. With all the pros and cons weighed there was no clear choice. I guess that means I must do some soul searching.

Thankful

Thanksgiving....a day to give thanks. I try to be thankful every day but today I find myself very aware of all that is good in our world. We have so much in our lives to be thankful for. I am so thankful for my friends, family, and most of all for my husband. Life has so many joys and blessings!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

What is GOING ON!?!?

Recently there has been a number of alarming events that have occurred around our country. Emergency services are not being provided in the manner that one would expect. We teach our children very early on that in an emergency you call 911 and the good guys will come to the rescue. Every 911 service provider from the call centers, to firemen, to police officers, and the EMTs are needed. ALL could be considered almost super heroes. Their roles are to serve, protect, rescue, and save and yet in the span of two weeks I have read articles about EMTs NOT providing services (leading to unnecessary death) and firemen NOT putting out fires (leading to a family loosing EVERYTHING and the cruel death of the family pets). When you can not expect the good guys to do it right who can you depend on?....I worry....

Kintai Castle

This weekend Izac and decided to explore a little closer to home. We went to Kintai castle. We had FANTASTIC weather and up on the mountain a nice breeze. All in all it was fun exploring. Our view was this

And This

And this

WOW

Where's the cat?

"Where's the cat?" An innocent enough question with a normal cat. With ours we run to find him. I looked in all his normal hiding places (behind the TV, in the closet, in the office) I then proceeded to get his favorite toy (the irresistible one)and tried to get him to come out. Nothing....at this point I was freaking out. I finally asked Izac to look out on the balcony and low and behold there is the cat. Izac had checked on a weird noise we heard about an hour and a half earlier. Darn cat got out and was stuck 6 floors up and nowhere to go. "Where's the cat?" Safe inside.

2nd class Citizen

As a military spouse you make many sacrifices that a lot of people neither know nor care about. Most spouses have some idea about what it will be like but every now and then you are smacked in the head and told to wake up. This week I got a reminder about our lack of status (spouses). A friend of mine had a death in her family. This is considered a family emergency. When a family emergency occurs we are allowed to get a letter that explains the situation and gives us status to fly Space Available (Space A) home. The categories are scaled 1-6. If my friend's husband went with her then their category was level 2. If she went alone her category level is a 4. With the Active duty member you jump two categories. I was very upset for my friend as she was traveling for such a sad event and I told my husband how I was feeling. His response was that it is a privilege for our sponsors (the active duty member) to have us live with them. To that he got a snort. I understand that to the military I am just a growth on my husband's side (one that cannot make decisions nor do anything on this base without my sponsor) but I say right here right now... I AM NOT LESS THAN MY HUSBAND. I may not be active duty but I serve right alongside my husband, sacrificing and bending... Semper Gumbi and all that....I am NOT a second class citizen.