because starting on January 1st would be so cliche

I feel like i'm going to explode!  I feel like, in a way I have no right to feel like I'm going to explode - I've got it easy right?  I have a roof over my head, two amazing and healthy children, my husband has a job and there are a million other blessings I have in my life to count, yet I feel like I'm going to explode.  I feel like I have no one to completely explode to (and the one that I can be uncensored with is off limits) because in one way or another I will offend everyone that I could potential explode on.....O well, I guess.

I've contemplated what I want my blog to be about and honestly, not that I'm some super interesting person that others would find great interest in but I do not like the idea of having my business on the net.  I do not like the idea simply because I'm not a very controlled person, I'm an open book and while "real" bloggers are able to strictly not talk about their marriages, or finances or what ever else should be of limits I'm not sure that I will have that type of filter.  However I've been having this nagging feeling of writing, of having a release, of getting my trials my triumphs my life on paper - err - on record.

2011 Reflection.

Started off the year celebrating my 28th Birthday.  We, the kids my mom and my brothers went to Grandpas to celebrate.  Shortly there after the party planning began for my Girl!  First birthdays are always fantastic!  My baby Boy turned 7 and daddy came home from a year deployment to Afghanistan - not all quite in that order.  Shortly there after the prep for Embassy Duty began but was short lived as Mike was dropped from school due to an injury.  Bittersweet - I was really really looking forward to living and getting to experience a new country and culture.  Then Summer came, long fabulous days of friends and growing babies all hanging out on the front lawn.  And a week long trip to the Utah mountains.  Summer turned out to be pretty great or so i thought......little did i know i would eventually find out that my world was being turned upside down. I still haven't decided if ignorance is bliss.  The school year started and my Boy played his first season of Baseball, and we made some new great friends.  All in all this has been another great year.  I look forward to next year, I look forward to growing and moving on.  I look forward to the challenges and blessings that will come.  It's gonna be a good year, I wont have it any other way.

Yay... i made it back safely!  To my "pathetic excuse for a blog" blog.  I've had so many catchy one liners and cute lil' stories that I imagined telling, and of course, here I am and......NOTHING.  I got nothing (insert sad face here)

So, because I really don't have any incredible intelect intellect to share I needed some type of "starting point" to begin this "pathetic excuse of a blog" blog, drum roll please, I HAVE FOUND A STARTING POINT!!!!  Umm about a week ago-ish my hubby, who's in beautiful Afghanistan, called me at 1 in the morning to let me know that we had been accepted to MSG Duty.  Now for all you hundreds of millions that are reading this ( hi jenn) basically that means that by summers end we will be moving...not only will we be moving, but it will be outside in the country's boarders - Yes ladies and gents we will be moving out of the country.  I laughed, I cried, and currently i'm crapping my pants with the million hundred thousand five billion and six* (* a collin-ism) questions that I have.  This is what we talked about, this is what we've been wanting, this is no longer a fantasy.

For now all I know is 

• The schooling is 8 weeks long (there is a possibility that this roller coaster of emotions is in vain IF the hubs doesn't pass, but we will have our fingers crossed and our arms folded)  
• We do get to make suggestions, as to where we would like to go.  
• We will have two different stations over three years.  
• When we return Collin will be 10 and Cambria will be 4 - HOLY SMOKES!!!
• Pretty sure I know a little more...just cant think of anything right now

While I am very scared, I look forward to all of the amazing experiences that this new chapter will bring.  I'm excited that Collin will no doubt grow up to remember what lies ahead.  And I will do my very best to give Cambria special memories of her own.  And of course I'm excited to experience all the new memories that the hubs and i will share.

So, there you have it - my blog now has a beginning, now please just help me remember that it is in fact "Just Another Day in Paradise"