I love pinterest!

Wow, I was looking at the date of my last post and its been a month since I last posted!  Wow does time fly.  Part of that is that in the busyness of my mom visiting, school starting, subbing, and PTO, I was too exhausted or still working on projects and didn't even think about the blog. 

The other part of it is I hit a negativity slump, got jealous and insecure and I refuse to post blogs when I'm like that.  I don't like posting it on facebook, so I'm definitely not going to blog about it.  I was feeling like I did way back when I was 26, Danny and I were young and low ranking, and the Army was always screwing us over (or at least that was our attitude at the time).  I don't like feeling like that and its been YEARS since I've felt that way.  I'm sharing this because part of writing this blog is so that young(er) military spouses know that sometimes it happens--we can't be happy, perfect Army wives all the time.  We are allowed to get disgruntled every once in a while.  The key is to not stay there for long. 

So, I'm on the way up out of my negativity, thanks to some great friends and have been a craft making fool lately.  I meant to do all sorts of crafts all summer, but instead I did zero!  So I'm making up for lost time.  There are three things that I made for Danny's box that I just shipped and can't share yet.  In about a week I should be able to share those.  But, I did do a project to start with the kids.  I did some Momma and Me Journals, thanks to http://www.mamajennblogs.com and pinterest.  Here are the pics:

 Bryce's Journal

 This is the opening letter that I wrote in both of their journals.

Jace's Journal

I'm hoping the kids are excited about doing this as I am.  I'm also hoping that it is something we get into the habit of doing.  I really am looking forward to this helping me become closer with both kids--but especially Bryce--since I'm so hard on her all the time.  This will be a good way for me to remember and focus on the good she does.  Its also a good way for Jace to work on his writing.   (sneaky sneaky LOL).  I'll keep you up to date on whether they are working or not.