Melissa | February 18, 2010
This post is the final in a 4 part series about Roy’s homecoming last September. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. When we had gone down the field, the buses had just arrived on base. However, the Marines still have weapons to turn in and any last word to be given needs to be passed. [...]
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Melissa | February 17, 2010
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. I was joking about the vacation. Sort of. I actually did get to get away for a weekend. The weekend right before Roy came home. He came earlier than expected! Before leaving for the weekend (San Francisco for a cousin’s wedding) I got a lot done around the [...]
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Melissa | February 16, 2010
This post is a continuation from yesterday’s post. In our family, Roy is the head. I am his helpmeet. We are both needed, but we have separate roles. My main role is taking care of the home and the children. His main role is to be the provider. Of course there are lots of other [...]
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Melissa | February 15, 2010
Even thinking of those words brings up emotions inside of me that I don’t how to label. We had a strange deployment in 2002-03 that was supposed to be for 3 months or so and ended up being 345 days long. We didn’t plan for the deployment very well at all! We thought it was [...]
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Melissa | February 11, 2010
It’s not a large library but it works for us. Rumor is that a new library is being built, a bigger and nicer one, but the date for that has not been released. This library has a nice children’s section at the back of the building and they have several children’s programs going on, including [...]
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