So the past few days have just been crazy. For those of you with husbands who work crazy hours, you know how fun, and long, and exhausting those weeks can feel. Throw in our recent move, making new friends(family), the kids adjusting to our new life, the hubs adjusting to his new station… sometimes it just wears me down a bit. This has been one of those weeks. I hesitate to write any of this, because I don’t want to seem whiny or ungrateful (I know so many friends are going through so much more right now). Truth is, I love being the wife of a Marine! I LOVE all of the family we have picked up along the way!!! I have fallen in love with every place we have been stationed, even when I thought it just wouldn’t happen. I wouldn’t trade it for anything!!! All that said, it doesn’t mean it isn’t hard. It’s funny… we worry about the kids adjusting and making new friends, and I think it’s us big people who struggle the most. The kiddos have been doing great, but now they have hit that comfortable stage (some of you know what I mean, HAHA). They are now testing the waters… “are things different here”, “just what can I get away with”, “these new people don’t know mom’s/dad’s rules… hmmm, maybe I…”. I am laughing as I type this because it is almost like clockwork with each move. It is also totally understandable too. Most of it I take with a grain of salt and I just roll with it. It is moments like these though that I really miss family… ALL of you… My family, the hubs family, and all of the family we have built up along the way (there are too many of you to name). We truly have been so blessed with each place that our family has been sent!! I’ve been missin’ family!! When you are having one of those crazy days/weeks, and you can just show up on someones doorstep… with coffee, disheveled hair, and crazy kids, and they welcome you with open arms. You can laugh at each others chaos, or hug and cry… you know… all of those crazy things that some of us silly girls do. If you are one of those people for me (you know who you are), just want you to know that you are, and always will be, loved!!