The highlight of our Christmas Day was having Tim join us for our premier video conference. It was great for us all to see him for the first time in 146 days wearing a Santa hat! We stayed connected for three hours as we opened presents and talked. He even had me [...]
This year we are thankful for a great deal, but most importantly for the safety of Tim and his troops who are serving a great purpose in Iraq. Tim has been deployed since May. Their mission in Iraq is MEDEVAC (short for medical evacuation). They cover the entire Southern portion of [...]
As I was running, I started thinking about the women that have contacted me with impending deployments ahead. For some, their husbands leave just after the holidays. It is hard to believe that Tim has been gone now for eight months. It seemed as if we had been planning and anticipating it for [...]
I figure most of us have been in a position where we see a passing soldier in uniform and are either too embarrassed or too busy to thank them. I was intrigued when Christina Coe (the wife of a soldier deployed with Tim) passed this along to me. It is worth a look. [...]
I have decided Gage is a good catch for any three-year old out there looking for a future spouse. He is wild by all accounts but also sweet to the core. Unlike many of us, he can easily and sincerely apologize. And he does it at just the right moments. I [...]
Briggs and I hit the Big Apple this weekend…just the two of us. It was Stacy’s last weekend there before she has the culture shock of a lifetime…relocating from NYC to Indianapolis! I figured Briggs was the perfect age to do a trip alone and we might not have the opportunity to do [...]
Every family likely has a tradition or routine of sorts at night. We have never been a family to say grace before meals. We make sure to give our thanks in our nighttime prayers. However, we do go around the table and say our “Happy, Mad, Sad.” It is one of [...]
One of my best friends sent this to me tonight and I thought it was good enough to post. I am going to assume it is real and not some superimposed, photo-enhanced email that has been passed on and on. If I am correct in my aircraft…this is a Chinook…different from a Blackhawk which Tim [...]
It is starting to look a lot like Christmas! Before the kids woke, I ran outside to take a picture of Tim in the snow. I was pleasantly surprised to see my drive and walkways already plowed thanks to Matt Zimpfer and Gary Harmon. Thanks guys!
I have been doing a lot of late-night wrestling and fire building lately. I am proud to say 1) I have some decent karate-type-ninja moves that I can throw around on my two rowdy boys and 2) I can build a mean fire.
But in an effort to get Briggs a dose of [...]
I received a forwarded message from a friend this evening about a woman in similar circumstances that has been following the blog. She has four children (7,4,2,3mos) and her husband will soon be deployed. Anyway, she wants to get Daddy Dolls for her children…a wise choice.
I sent her the link and decided to [...]
It’s been busy lately - real busy. In the MEDEVAC business, that’s an unfortunate situation.
I’ve written about the chaos that is associated with this situation, the business we are in, and the theatre we are in, but reviewing one of our latest “run sheets” - brings it all into perspective.
When we receive a call or [...]