A step closer to you

As I set here talking to friends on skype and checking facebook and emails and different things all I can think about is I am one day closer to you.  We are so close yet again we are so far away to seeing each other. 
Yesterday some friends and I started Biggest Loser Army Wives Sytle and I weighed myself on Monday and I weighed 170 and then I weighed myself on Tuesday and I weighed 168.  Since my sweet husband has left I have lost 32 pounds and my goal is to get to 125 and if I can't I am ok with that. 
I have found out that I have ADHD and need to retrain myself on how to do things and that is very hard for me.  I am now keeping a calendar of everything and writing everything down.  I just have to remember my list when I leave so I know what I need to do for the day.
Finding this out now at the age I am is hard and then finding it out well he is gone is even harder.  One thing I have learned is when you find things out and you tell your spouse it makes it real, I mean really real when they are not here.  It has also made me grow up even more because it made me realize that I was not being a very good wife to him.
So as Santa would say making a list and checking it twice going make sure I do things right.  Hubby is coming home Hubby is coming home Hubby is coming home sooooooooooooooooooon. 
Well my rambling has gone on long enough talk later.  Have a great day.

We have many journeys

We have many journeys in the military from deployments, to field time, to school time and then different ones for us just not our serviceman.  I love my journey as a mother, homemaker, school teacher, and other hats that I wear.

I am starting a new journey and it is my weight loss and it is really hard to do because I really hate how I look but have no clue how to lose the weight.  I can tell others how to do it but taking my own advice is the hardest.  I am currently 172 and would really like to get down to at least 125 if not 120.  I was hoping to be able to lose this weight before my husband gets back from his deployment....I might be able to lose some of it but I don't think I will be able to lose all of it.

My goals is to write on this blog every day with how I am doing with my weight lost and anything else I want to write.

STAY TUNED

A Military Wife's Prayer

The ARMY Wife

The Beginning

I started this journey on July 21, 1990 when the guy almost runs me off the road.  I did not know it was him walking into the church in front of me until the next day.  Went to the reception and there he was setting in the corner talking to some guys.  I asked the groom who he was and I was told Gene Schacherer.  The next thing I knew he was sitting beside me and we started talking and then dancing.

On August 28, 1990 his reserve unit was activated and left for the east coast for 11 months.  He came home a couple times and proposed and we started planning our wedding.  On July 25, 1992 was one of the best days of my life because I got to marry my best friend, lover and soul mate.

He stayed in the reserve for a little while and then we were off to Fort Hood TX for our first duty station.  Shortly after we arrived his unit went to Honduras for about 4 months.  We had some rough spots and a lot of hills to climb.  I am glad that I never gave up and continued the journey with him.

We got out and took sometime from the military and then he joined the Air National Guard and that became part of our world again.  He did that for about 10 years and then he came and said we needed to talk.  We sat down and started talking and he said that he wanted to join the Army full time.  I agreed but scared of him going into his current MOS so we talked about him reclassify.  He reclassified and the military moved us to Fort Bragg NC and our new life began.  What I remember of the military has changed and there are some good changes and some bad changes. 

I love that the have the AFTB, FRG classes, parenting classes, too many others to say and the favorite one that I love they have is MFLC.  I wish they had these great people back when we were in before because they would have helped so many people.

Army Wife Creed

Author Unknown
I am the wife of an American Soldier.
I am a supporter of the United States Army -
an encouragement for the protectors of the greatest nation on earth.
Because I am proud of my husband and the  uniform that he wears,
I will always act in ways creditable to him, the military service
and the nation he is sworn to gaurd.
I am proud of my husband. I will do all that I can to protect
and provide for my family in his absence. I will be loyal to my
husband and to the vows that we made as we entered the
covenant of marriage.
I will do my full part to carry on the values
and goals we have set apart for our family
and I will continue to instruct our children in the same manner.
As a soldier's wife, I realize that I play a vital role
in my husband's decision to become a member of a time-honored profession -
that I am doing my share to keep alive the principles of freedom
for which my country stands.
No matter what situation I am in, I will never do anything,
for pleasure, profit, or personal safety,
which will disgrace my husband, his uniform or our country.
I will use every means I have to encourage my husband to be
the best soldier that he can be.
I am proud of my husband, my country and its flag.
I will fly the flag and will always remember the sacrafices
made by my husband and by generations of men and women
that have served our beloved country.
I will try to make my husband proud of the
manner in which I accept his decision to defend my freedom and
the freedom of all American citizens -
for I am the wife of an American soldier.