Running is good for me….if I keep telling myself this I’ll believe it. Like a lot of people, I’ve decided that my New Year’s Resolution is going to be to get in better shape.  I’ve never been a big person (unless I’m pregnant) but I definitely could use a little shaving down and toning up [...]

I haven’t written in a while.  There has just been a lot going on.  Life I guess.  My husband has had a couple surgeries.  One was major and to repair an old injury from working military dogs and the other was for an emergency appendectomy.  Once I got out of the habit I kept thinking [...]

As a military family we are well acquainted with the spending the holiday seasons apart.  Either away from each other or away from our extended families, it is never easy to be apart from your loved ones.  The past several years have been some of the hardest of my married life thus far and because [...]

So, about a week ago I got the email notification. It was out for delivery. I was so excited I began pacing through the house and stalking my front door. I was like a woman possessed. I was standing on my tip toes and peering out the windows on the top of my front door [...]

It has been one of those weeks.  You know, the kind that make you question the wisdom of the waiting until after the kids are in bed (or sometimes 4 pm) to have that first glass of wine.  The kind of day that makes you longingly reminisce about the nights when you actually got to [...]

While I would never trade the life I have for any other, there are days when I hate being so far from my friends and family. I hate that my friends are scattered across the world. This feeling usually occurs when something major is happening and I’m missing it. There have been more than a [...]

Hey everyone!  My name is Mandi and I am the proud wife to an Airmen.  He has 18 years in and while we talk about retirement I have a feeling we still have some time left before he finally hangs up those ABU’s.  He loves his job…a lot.  I have an amazing 13 year old [...]