It's In The Bag

This is my favorite accesssory for purses!!!
This is a Sonia Kashuk's organizer. I LOVE love love it.  I change my purses a lot and this makes it so much easier and quicker !!! I just take it out and put it in my new purse, all of my things are right there. I never have the problem of leaving something I need in my old purse.  It has a few small pockets in the main compartment and two large pockets on either side. It has the pocket for my all important cell phone.
I bought this in Target, it cost about $12.99. It is such a time saver for me. I do wish it would come in a lighter color!

Did Ya Put A Ring On It???

Do you wear your wedding band? Does it have the power to fend off the opposite sex's come ons? Does it remind you not to cheat? Or is it a really nice piece of jewelery? I really never gave it to much thought, until I saw the latest episode of Duck Dynasty. 20 years ago Jase lost his wedding ring. Missy and Jase go to replace it.
Wearing a ring on your left hand to symbolize marriage comes from an old belief that one of the veins in that hand runs to your heart
Before my husband left on his business trip he asked if I minded if he left his ring home. I didn't see it as being a huge deal. In his line of work it could be  potentially hazardous to wear the ring.  As for me, I always wear mine, I rarely take it off. Most of the men in my family do not  wear a wedding ring. Maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. 
 Is a wedding ring just a pretty metal band around your finger? .My  ring is the nicest piece of jewelry I own. Ok aside from the necklace of straw, yarn and construction paper bats my son made in preschool. Yes, I'm VERY sentimental.
Does the wedding ring serve as a reminder not to cheat? MMM not for me. My love for my hubby keeps me from cheating.
Do you think if your spouse wears it does it keep the opposite sex away? Umm, no it does not have any super powers.
I think, you have to chose for yourself what makes you comfortable. This is one time I think it is best to decide for yourself not just go with tradition

 

The New Norm

Things have finally started to settle down since my husband left on his business trip. In our house we don't say the D word, we call it a business trip. I don't like the D word. You know the word or you can guess it.
My hubby has left on a business trip many many times before. Each time is the same yet different. There has never been two business trips alike. The only thing that is the same is my husband is gone. Everything in life is oddly different. It takes time to get use to my husband not being around. I never totally get use to it.

Things that ease the business trip blues
Photo Album- when MJ was small he had a little dollar store photo album filled with pictures of  Daddy. I use to call it the Daddy Flip Book. MJ loved it and use to giggle and wiggle looking at his daddy. Now MJ is older, he has an up to date one and loves to add the pictures himself. It is a handy tool to talk about Daddy and MJ's feelings while Daddy is gone.

Routine- I have found that family routine is very important while my Husband is gone. It seems to be a comfortable and predictable normal for MJ. I have not changed the Family Routine my husband and I set up the months prior to him leaving.

Videos- MJ loves to make little videos for his Daddy.

If you have anything to add to this list please leave it in the comments. I would love to learn what eases your business trip blues!

 

 

 

 

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How To Survive A Cold With Style

1.  Dress for the occasion! His old soft tee shirt paired with boxers or sweat pants.

2.  Cold  Medications of choice.

3.  Tissues. MMM my favorite Kleenex Cool To The Touch. ( They also come in such a pretty blue box. After all this is about surviving in style.

4.  Entertainment!!!! Movies, books, magazines, TV Shows. (ITunes is great for this!!) You can fall asleep and pick it up where you left off when you wake up!

5.  Burt's Bees for chapped lips.

6.  Four to six big soft fluffy pillows. Comfort is always in style!!!

7. Great beverages! No not cocktails. LOL. Orange juice,  sparkling water, flavored seltzer water, for example.

8.  Cough drops.

9.  Fashionable shoes! Every girl needs shoes! LOL. Comfortable slippers, does it really matter what they look like your sick!!!

10.  Great scents! Sinus Soother tart from www.countrytrailcandles.com

11. MMMM Soup just like Mama made. Chicken Soup- Mom's cold remedy.

12. Moisturizing shower products. Nothing feels as good as a hot shower when you have a head cold.

13.  Sugarless hard candies or gum.

14.  Ice Pops are not just for kids. Ice Pops are great for soothing a sore throat!

15.  Activities to keep the kiddies occupied! Some examples are Playdough, paper and crayons, foam shapes, glue and paper, or making paper airplanes


Deployment Tip

Collect items while you are well and toss them in a box to keep in your closet. This way you have them when you are sick and don't have to go out and get some of them.

If Mom Made Tissues These Would Be Them

These are the most fantastic improvement to tissues, since they put that menthol in them!! Some how Kleenex found a way to make cooling tissues! They are so comforting when you have a fever. If Mom made tissues these are the ones she would make! These are the softest tissues, it is like a cloud against your face. My nose did not become red and irritated because the tissues have moisturizers on them. 

Yes, in my opinion Kleenex Cool Touch tissues. are well worth the money.

 

FYI USPS Customs Forms

The USPS changed there customs forms without a word ! They will no longer accept the old customs forms. "You can find the new forms on line, "says the Wappingers Falls Post office. They do not have any at the Post Office itself. Until the end of the week you have to print them off line yourself.

How I found this out!!!!!
I had my box and my customs forms all filled out. This errand seems to be routine in the life of a Military Spouse. I get to the Post Office and can't send my box. The form I was just sent from the USPS on Friday was not being used anymore. AHHHHH! Not my day!

I thought I would post this to save another Spouse a wasted trip to the Post Office!!!!!!!!

Bubbies On Base

I never really gave much thought to breast feeding in public or on  post for that matter. After hearing about the controversy over a breast feeding woman in a store on a base ii believe to be in Hawaii, I have thought about this issue.
I really don't understand why a breast feeding woman is such a big deal. Bubbies and babies being hungry are natural parts of life.  I have to admit, I would not  be comfortable enough to do it in public but some women are.  I do feel however they make blankets, shirts and cover up just for women to breast feed discreetly in public. I have to say I'm middle of the road and understand both sides of the story.
Maybe the answer in this situation is to build a mommy comfort station. Somewhere Mom can nurse her baby in a private room. Then both sides would be happy.




***These are my thoughts. My Hubby was unavailable to ask  this question.***

My Guilty Pleasures

Guilty pleasures those things we savor that we don't tell very many people, if anyone at all about. We all have them.  You know you have a guilty pleasure that you indulge in. MMMM yes I have them.

My Guilty Pleasures:
1. Reality TV. LOVE it! Love the Housewives (all of them), Kimora, Mob Wives, Big Ang, and the list grows with the more time hubby spends on his business trip!
2. Fine Chocolate!
3.  A really good book! The type of book you don't want to put down. When is the last time you got lost in the pages of a good book! What was a book you read and it changed you?
4. Artisan Candles and Tarts.
5. Cannolis! MMMM their rich creaminess.
6. A really good chick flick. A movies that nothing blows up!
7.  Time at the salon. it is having my nails done or getting my hair cut, I love the me time.
8.  Smoothies at the mall.  MMMM two of my favorite things.  This one is actually two facts. Smoothies and shopping!!!
9. Bacon! Love Love Love Bacon. Yummy!
 10  Comfy tee shirts of my hubby's. Nothing beats those.