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The Year of the Dragon, bucking the rules, and making sugar from shyte…

Year of the Dragon

  This is supposed to be the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac system. As a dragon, this year is supposed to bring me luck and good fortune along with a few other things…   Luck? I just found out I’m deploying for a second time in a year! How lucky is that?! One of the worst parts of being military is the deployments---for me anyway. Others could argue that there is … [Read more...]

War Face…painting it on again

daddy's hero

    Today I had planned on sharing a cute craft tutorial with you guys and give an update on the progress of my AWESOME craft cabinet Brandon's been building for me. But, unfortunately that's not what's tugging at my heart strings today. So I'll save that for a post next week. What is tugging, hard, is that we got some 'news' yesterday. News that we were hoping wouldn't … [Read more...]

Damn Army!

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    This week for our Story Dam prompt we were asked to write about "The Dead of Winter". This is what I came up with:   Damn Army!   “I know I’ve said this a bazillion times but, IT’S FREEZING!” Dawn said through chattering teeth. Phil shook his head. She had been complaining about the temperatures ever since they moved there in June.  “Honey, I … [Read more...]