Simba's Pride

well, Here we are, merely days away from the finish.  what can i say but Its been a wild Ride mr. Toad.  seriously...i mean....WOW.  This has been one of those life experiences that you will NEVER understand unless you are have done it, are doing it, or will do it in the future, it has been a Marriage experience much the same, and a parenting experience compared to nothing else.  As we draw to a close the last 10/11 weeks that josh has been abducted and changed from a duckling to a swan by the United States Army, i must catalog a few things that i have learned

lets start at the beginning shall we?!

1.  Christopher Robin said it best : you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think

2.  Mr. toad was right to call it a wild ride (he had NO idea)

3. all of this has happened before and it will happen again...sort of....(peter pan) (though we won't go through basic again, he will probably have to leave again, this we know....)

4. No matter what happens I will be with you forever...I rather die a thousands deaths than know I have to live without you...(pocahontas)

5. Look, your really cute....but i can't understand what your saying (nemo) (in regards to that unknown numbered day alone with young children and NO COFEE!)

6. you know, you worry too much, in fact EVERYONE worries too much (fun and fancy free) (its true we really do)

7.I'm lost at sea without a friend. This journey, will it ever end? Who will rescue me?
-The Rescuers (there are many days you feel like this....until you find that special someone who does know what if feels like...then you learn how to make it through together :0))

8. Take it from an old spectator. Life's not a spectator sport. If watchin' is all you're gonna do, then you're gonna watch your life go by without ya.
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame (even though our family feels weird and incomplete you still have to make the most out of the situation...likewise i also feel that each new place we move and every time we have to start over and meet new people it is what you make of it.  and i intend on making it everything i can!)

9.  I'm a damsel. I'm in distress. BUT I can handle this. Have a nice day.
-Hercules  (this should be stitched on a pillow at 2am with children crying and throwing up and you in tears and exhausted trying to do everything alone.....oh wait i wouldnt have read it then anyways lol)

and finally one of my all time favorites
10. Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.
-Lilo and Stitch  (family always sticks together you do what you have to for whomever you have to to survive...for this i can't thank my parents and friends enough for all the love support, and general time i wasted of yours.  i know i spent many a night tearfully on the phone or in your arms or pawning my sweet children HEHE off on you so that i could show my house or go to the store or a wedding, or just to have some company that can complete a sentence! you don't know how much you all mean to me and i love you all! THANK YOU!  thank you for the text messages, the phone calls, the offers to help me with the kids, the stealing of children by mimi and poppa to give me a break with one or no children...(how the grocery store is so different alone!)  these things can never be repaid...but know they mean the world to mE!)

i have always said Disney said it best...and here is my proof.  In 4 days i get to see my husband, though it will be short and sweet, i will be with him again soon, next week i organize (or begin to) our greatest adventure next to our kids and maybe getting married (nah that part was the fun part)  moving to California for the next 17 months....i can't wait to see what is in store for us!  I AM SO PROUD TO BE YOUR WIFE SPC JOSH CHAMBERS!  can't wait to tell you in person next week!!!!!!!!!!

Baby Mine

Well in light of mothers day i feel a need to post another random blog.  the Events of the last few weeks have taught me many things but upon reaching this monumental holiday that so many cherish and so many long to celebrate on their own i feel the need to express a few things.  First off, i realize how lucky i am.  i am SO incredibly luck to have two SMASHINGLY wonderful boys who are so sweet and full of life and entertainment that love me and are learning so much.....I am BLESSED to be able to now stay home with them and be that center person for them to depend on and teach them and love them.  of course there is my awesome husband too, whom is still currently off learning how to be an even greater man than we know him to be whom i couldn't me MORE proud of.  but i have been reflecting on my life and my goals and i have realized through this whole experience that you really really really really NEVER grow out of your parents...i mean to some extent you know that and realize it but its so huge sometimes...it comes down to the little things that make the biggest difference like a family crisis health emergency when everyeone's lives stop for one lil boy and they don't question it or even try to do anything but do anything and everything they can to help with no question, or coming to mow the lawn because well i honestly have NEVER started a lawn mower before in my life! or even coming at 9 at night with a bag full of 9v batteries to change 9 fire detectors because one is beeping and driving me mad...without question, without hesitation, and without even asking....actually quite the opposite....forcefully (with love) doing so and not taking no for an answer....just because they can.  Its the little things like turning around and my trash cans have been emptied or light bulbs changed or vents changed and cleaned just because he can....mommies and daddies never also outgrow wanting to be helpful and needed and appreciated...its what we are made to do and because of that desire i have seen in my own self i now more understand my parents desire to do so for me...to say they are wonderful parents doesn't do them justice.  there really is NO way for me to properly describe how i feel about them other than to say if when my children are grown they love me half as much as i love my parents then i will be one lucky girl (of course i would love to say they will love me the same lol but you know what i mean) it certainly drives me daily to be more like my mom to think about the little things, to enjoy the time they want with me, to make the MOST out of EVERY experience they can have because you NEVER know what life will throw at you.  You never know what tomorrow will bring and in light of my new and upcoming life and family change to the life style of the Army, i fully intend on making the most out of every moment they get with me and josh.  I want them to love life, and love experiencing new things and be able to look back and say we made things fun and as good as we could.  I am so blessed to have my family, my children, my parents and grandparents, most days when i think about it I realize just how un deserving i am of such love from my own parents much less God who loves us more...and if I feel that way about my own parents i can't IMAGINE the love he has for me...its overwhelming....so to the GREATEST example of motherhood i know...THANK YOU....i will say LIKEWISE to my daddy for his examples for my boys and my husband too but we will save that for next month on fathers day :0)  hopefully my own "babies daddy" lol will be with me as i write this too...even if it will be just for the day. 

all my reasons to celebrate such a great day.  HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL!!!!!!!!!

The beat of a heart

So as most of you already know...this week can only be described in one word and I do mean one word and every letter of it....pure H    E   L   L.  sorry for the bluntness but its true.  most of the time when you child gets sick you expect a cold maybe ear infections, you don't go from having a icky feeling kid to a super icky feeling one to a limp noodle of a baby that can't even lift his head and can't breath all within 24 hours.  you also don't expect to go tot he doctors office and emerge 3 days later from a hosptial with said child in your arms.  BUT guess what, all that happened this week.....WHILE josh was gone, and i had never had a child hospitalized like this...yes we all know Noah was the king of ear infections and simple surgerys with 2 hemangioma removals and tube/adenoids/tonsil surgery and for petes sake for the first 18 months of his life i think he was sick more than he was well, however Christian decided to up the ante on me.  i thought wow we made it to 8.5 months before we got sick thats great!  probably an ear infection....yeah well i was right but add on double pneumonia and severe dehydration and hypoxia ( lack of oxygen cause the poor kid couldn't breath!) that is for my non medical frieds lol believe it or not i do have several lol.   so thanks to my parents who stayed with me stayed with noah, got little to no sleep with me ( momma) and got run to the ground with a huge smile on his face (poppa) keeping up with a very active lil boy, and for all their comfort....this week is finally over...THANK YOU JESUS for keeping us out of REALLY dark water and out of a worse situation than it was.... so i won't rehash all of the ugly details other than there were lots of cords monitoring him, oxygen fluids, antibiotics and severe lack of sleep for two adults cause the poor kid kept getting woken up and couldn't move with all that stuff he needed on to watch him and though MUSC childrens were AWESOME and i owe them all a HUGE thank you and good job, they need better furniture in their rooms lol.  but the staff and everyone was so great.  they helped out my sweet lil man and loved on him and us and i don't think i have a bad word to say about the staff of 7A.  so that being said, anyone who reads this who has kids no matter how annoying they are today or how many tantrums they throw today or  whatever they do just let it go for one day, give them a hug and a kiss and be THANKFUL you child is healthy.  all this brings into new persepective in my life for those parents who's children have life threatening illnesses and deal with them every day.  also those who come down with sudden illnesses its a truely scary place to be, no one wants to hear how sick your baby is,  and when that doctor said had you waited even 12 hours more or maybe even 6 hours we might have had  amuch more serious fight on our hands and very unsure of his outcome.....I felt frozen and went into survival mode...its the only way i could make it through but I am here to say God brought me through that because i could never have done it without him and my momma and daddy.  here are some pics to show you what happened....so glad he's better!