Archive for 'Military Mama' Category
Military Mama: Cruise Control
By Jade Stone Have you ever just felt like your life was on cruise control? You know, when everything is moving, not too fast, not too slow, no oncoming traffic or obstacles to maneuver but rather just cruising along watching everything fall into place? Well so far, that’s how pre-deployment training has been. It’s certainly [...]
Military Mama: What doesn’t kill us
By Jade Stone Someone once said, “What doesn’t kill us, only makes us stronger”. Sometimes, I’d like to just smack that guy in the mouth. I’m guessing that someone has never dealt with daylight savings in the spring while single-handedly managing to wrestle a 6-year-old out of a cozy warm bed at 5:30 in the [...]
Military Mama: Do you really want to know?
By Jade Stone Have you ever had one of those weeks where you didn’t know which way was up and it seemed that with each “to do list” you completed that there was another one lined up and waiting in the wings? Well that was me this week. Jay’s gone now and we miss him [...]
Military Mama: Let the countdown begin
By Jade Stone It’s official! The countdown to deployment has begun. Today we received a tentative training schedule. Jay leaves tomorrow for the first stint of a long stretch of training segments that will occur at various intervals. The first one will be 2 weeks with a 4-day break followed by a 6-week session which [...]
Military Mama: The Wait is Over
By Jade Stone Well, the New Year is well underway and now we begin the countdown until summer. There will be lots of changes in our very near future and there’s no time like the present to get started on them. We now officially have an unofficial date set for Jay to leave. It appears, [...]
Military Mama: Simply celebrating
By Jade Stone I hope this finds your holiday season running smoothly. I don’t know about you, but sometimes it feels like every year it becomes more and more stressful. But this year, I was inspired to do something different. A few months ago, my worship team leader at church came to me and asked [...]
Military Mama: Hats off to the Coast Guard
By Jade Stone It’s no secret that Christmas is just around the corner and I feel so behind! I can’t even think about presents and Christmas cards until we get the semester completed at school. I still have so much to do yet so little time and for us, in many ways, we don’t even [...]
Military Mama: New deployment details
By Jade Stone I hope you had the opportunity to sit down with your friends and family this Thanksgiving and truly enjoy one another. I know we dodged a close call this holiday and will certainly say a few extra prayers of thanks for the blessing. It started Wednesday 2 weeks ago. I was heading [...]
Military Mama: Overlooked holiday is coming up
By Jade Stone Halloween has now come and gone leaving behind a trail of candy wrappers, decaying pumpkins, and upset tummies for sure. I hope you had the chance to enjoy the festivities of trick or treating, costume parties or at least the craft fairs which were abundant a few weeks ago. Jay and I [...]
Military Mama: Duty Calls
By Jade Stone It appears that fall is finally here! And I am so ready for it! Aside from the rain, the crisp chill in the air is a welcomed one. As you may well know the craft fairs were abundant this past weekend and the Bentonville/Rogers area was swarming with people! Hopefully you aren’t [...]
Military Mama: Measuring true success
By Jade Stone Last night, while cooking dinner, I was running around frantically trying to squeeze one last load of laundry in between unpacking groceries and getting my 5-year-old ready for a soccer game and it hit me — this is what single parents feel like every night. The worst part is I’m married and [...]
Military Mama: Time heals all wounds … almost
By Jade Stone I absolutely love this time of year! The weather is always so amazing, football is just beginning, and the onslaught of holidays begins with Halloween which means .. it’s chocolate season! The Indian summer is beginning and September rushes in, bringing with it all sorts of mixed emotions. Ushered in by 9/11, [...]
Military Mama: The “A” word and a student’s tragic death
By Jade Stone Well the winds of change have begun to blow, ushering out that sweltering heat and pushing in those cool fall breezes! And thank Heavens for that! I don’t know about you all but I am so ready for sweatshirt season! But that’s not the only things that are changing here lately. This [...]
Military Mama: First day of kindergarten jitters
By Jade Stone It never fails. Every year back to school time comes around and I never seem to be as fully prepared as I always say I will be “next year”. I’m a teacher at an area high school and I swear the summer was much shorter this year what with all the additional [...]
Military Mama: One in the same
By Jade Stone Well, if you are returning from last time, you know that I recently went to a conference in Houston and spent quite a bit of time in an airport, giving me plenty of time to people-watch. Once I finished up my conference in Houston a few days later I found myself again [...]
Military Mama: On second thought…
By Jade Stone I hope this finds you thoroughly enjoying your summer! I personally think Satan should take his weather back. If ever there was a doubt in my mind, after enduring this crazy heat, I am more than certain Hell is not a place I intend to spend any time! But, soon it will [...]
Military Mama: A long line of soldiers
By Jade Stone I hope you all had an amazing Fourth of July with your families. I know I did! As you may already know or at least suspect, I come from a long line of veterans dating back to at least the Civil War. Every patriarch in both my mom’s and dad’s side of [...]
Military Mama: Don’t wanna miss a thing
By Jade Stone Hopefully this finds you all well and enjoying these first few days of summer. As school years come to a close and people begin to fall into that laid back summertime groove that we have been yearning for over the course of a long, cold winter, many of us are making plans [...]
Military Mama: We’re off to see the Wizard…
By Jade Stone I have to say, after the news of Osama’s death hit the airwaves last week, I have had this overwhelming and undeniable urge to sing the age old song from the Wizard of Oz “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”! I really can’t tell you what sort joy that news brings my [...]
Military Mama: Happy Trails
By Jade Stone Hopefully, if you are reading this, you at least have power and aren’t completely underwater! My prayers are certainly with those fighting that battle this week. Thank Heavens we are ok and don’t have water seeping in anywhere or we might have been out of luck. Jay left this past Friday for [...]