Facebook ads...

Does anyone else feel like Facebook advertisements are targeting them specifically? I swear it's like they know my husband has been gone for 6 months! These are the top three ads on my facebook page:

1. Never Shave Again
2. Do you have a permit to carry concealed weapons?
3. Become an Epidemiologist

What kind of an Amazonian woman do they think I am? Yikes! It's got me thinking that it's time to make some major life adjustments...starting with shaving my legs ;)

They know me all too well!

St. Patrick's Day in a box:

How to fit all of this into one little flat rate box?! This is no small feat. It takes experience, creativity and a sense of adventure to create a package worthy to be shipped overseas to an unsuspecting soldier.








The Grit magazine is my attempt to help keep the cowboy in Ben up to speed on all the latest "cowboy news"...very important! The belt buckle is a civil war union soldier belt buckle...I just figured it would help set the mood while he reads his magazine.




I decided to take the "Kiss me I'm Irish" to a whole new level when he mentioned he needed floss and toothpaste.








What is it about men and candy disguised as animal poop? Maybe it's just my husband. Either way, he thinks it's funny...so here we go!










Oops one last item I almost forgot I had!!! A most important Dilbert daily calendar! Phew...close one! I got it on clearance, since it is February!








Proof that I can fit it all into a medium flat rate box...amazing!!!






And now I am off to the post office!

Secret Service

My husband the secret service agent! He sure looks good in sunglasses!

How can I not have a good day when I get a picture like this from Iraq?

I have the sweetest husband in the whole world! I just love that man.

Ben's new wardrobe!

I have never been so excited for new clothes!! It is so much fun shopping for clothes I imagine my husband will look cute in! Why didn't I think of this before?...oh yeah because if he was home he would have protested. *Sigh just another one of the perks of having your hubby on a deployment...reorganizing his wardrobe! Although he keeps saying he doesn't have a "wardrobe", but I just tell him well not the same one anyways :)

I am going to have to find room for all his new stuff! Seeing as how I packed up all his stuff and put it in storage. I have completely taken over all of the drawer and closet space since he left. We're gonna have to move to a bigger place to make room for his new wardrobe.

Ok ok ok enough about Ben's clothes! Who knew I could get side tracked on that topic. Although, there was the jean jacket episode of our first date. No one should ever, under any circumstances where a jean jacket on a first date. Actually they shouldn't be worn past 1989...just sayin'.

Counting my blessings...

This was by far the most bizarre Valentine's Day I have ever had. First it is the first Valentine's I have spent without my darling husband. Second it was Monday. Holidays should never be on Monday's ~ it throws the rest of the week off balance, unless it is a holiday that we get off of work like President's Day.

Anyways, I received some sad news at work today I can't share the details as it is confidential information. An acquaintence passed away unexpectedly and very tragically. Not anyone that I knew well, but still a sad story to start the week off with...particularly on a holiday such as Valentine's Day.

I was instantly grateful for a wonderful husband and a very fulfilling marriage. I worry a lot about Ben being in a combat zone, but one thing I do not worry about is his character. I always know that I am at the top of his priority list, and that I can always count on him.

I kept counting up all of my blessings through out the day, and I realized just how grateful I am for the gift of life. Every day with my friends and family, and particularly my husband Ben, is a gift.

Running out of everything...

How is it possible that I could run out of toilet paper, food, gas, clean underwear, deodorant, dish soap, and laundry detergent all in the same day? And on a wednesday no less that I had to work late, barely made it to an appointment with the vet for my very sick dog, barely made it to mutual, and had to stay late at a meeting...didn't get home until 11:30pm. Wow! I'm tired just thinking about last wednesday! But seriously how could I possibly run out of all those things on the same day?? It's like the forces of nature were at work...or was it perhaps the fact that I am the wife of a deployed soldier? Hmmm food for thought. I realized recently (and by recently I mean last wednesday) that I rely on my husband for a lot of little things! Normally my husband would have noticed that at least half of those things were almost gone and would have reminded me to fill 'er up before they were all gone at once.
On a side note I may also be out of shaving cream, but I really wouldn't know since I haven't used any since last October ;)
On a more serious note I am exhausted from missing my husband! Wowza missing that handsome guy really takes a toll on a lady!