Military Life

Attentions Ladies:  If your husband goes around asking for something in a shopping bag that he has misplaced its NOT your fault! 

 So here is how the story goes……  the night before mothers day Kris says, “hey honey have you seen a Target Shopping bag”?  My reply is, “no”.  We go on with our date to Outback then to Fudruckers for desert with our friends that we met while Kris was working at MacDill in Tampa.  So on mothers day he asks me the same question twice, meanwhile he is acting rather odd and nosing thru everything!  So after church driving out of the church parking lot he turns to me and says………   I suck!  My response is, “what did you do”?  I think I threw away your mothers day gift by accident when I bought your Birthday present.  I am laughing by this point!  He keeps telling me he sucks and is a horrible husband.  I am still lauging!!!!  So we go to lunch with the kids then to Lowes to by my new mothers day, which was my idea…  See below!  They will bloom all summer hopefully, and these were large enough he couldn’t misplace them!!!!!!!!  Oh and if your wondering, he still has not found the Target bag!

So last week I packed up the Explorer and headed to Florida for a wedding that Emily and Zack were in.  We left on Wednesday.  It was a easy drive, leaving at 7am and getting to Lakeland at 5:30.  Thursday morning I head over to the tux shop to get Zacks tux…..  HELLO the wrists on it came up to the middle of Zacks arm and the coast could have fit 3 of my Zackies in it.  Now I know that those people who do that for a living could not have actually thought this looks okay?????  So instead of leaving for the beach Friday morning with my folks I had to wait for the UPS driver to deliver a new shirt and coat for Zack.  We get to Treasure Island oh around 7:30 Friday night.  I did get to visit with both set of my grandparents though while waiting.  Which that was a nice treat!  So Kris calls me about 3pm on Friday.  Hey, “There’s a problem with my plane ticket”?  Well…… what’s wrong?  The airline has me going out of JVille, FL instead of JVille, NC……  (Well I almost fainted……) So he tells me he rented a car and will be down in the morning……..  (I had a heart attack at that point……- where is he getting the money I’m thinking)  I kindly suggested he try the airport at the town next to us and call me back!!!!  (I’ve had a stroke in between these calls mind you!)  You see this wedding was my ex-husbands family and I really wanted Kris with  me.  I get along just fine with all of them and love them to death but I just wanted everyone to see how happy we are and really wanted him there with me.  So he calls back and says everything is fine pick me up at 10am on Saturday at Tampa.  Kewl!  I picked my self up off the floor at this point.  Well the wedding went great!  It was the most beautiful ceremony I have ever been too.  I really missed Linda my mother in law not being there but I know she was watching her baby girl from heaven.  Everyone felt that hole there too and missed her.  But since that was the place they always vacationed it was like she was there in spirit and you could feel her.  Melissa was a beautiful bride and I know how proud her Dad must be of her, I know I am proud of her.  She has turned out to be so caring and giving like her mom.  We got up early Sunday morning and visited our church back in Lakeland and had lunch at the church.  It was wonderful being back home under our Pastor and seeing all our church family.  God is doing wonderful things in Lakeland and that church truly is a light in the community.  We headed back to North Carolina at 2:30 and were making great time until we encountered and nasty wreck on I95 right before Jacksonville, FL.  A semi truck did a nose dive off an over pass and took out about 100ft of that steel railing on the side before the top.  They had a crain and tow trucks salvaging what they could and moving it out of the way.  We got home at 4am Monday morning.  I could not tell you how many time I fell asleep driving.  Kris had to be at work at 7:30……  so he needed to rest some.  The trip was quick but worth it all.  We will be headed back down to Florida on June 25 and staying with my mom until our cruise sets sail on July 8th!  Woohoo summer time is almost here!