Other peoples children

Why is it that every time I spend time with kids from other families, I love my kids all the more?? Don't get me wrong, my kids are (often!!) pains in the fanny, and it's not that the other kids are even bad. Heidi had her friends over this weekend for a sleep over. Five girls, all around 8 yrs old, but the levels of maturity were so different. Some couldn't get drinks of water for themselves, others wanted to borrow the car (jk). I overheard several tiffs, but only one girl kept asking me to fix the problem. Some did what I asked the first time, others had to be hovered over and forced into action. By the time I got them all to go to sleep it was 1 am. I hope that it was a little easier for my mom to have all us girls, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Maybe because we were around a little more she knew what to expect from us. And I will never know how teachers don't go crazy ever single day. The one good thing about having alot of extra kids in the house is how quiet it seems when they all leave again.

Worlds worst blogger

Yeah, that'd be me. I never write on here, just spy on everyone else. Sorry!! We are in NY now, stationed at Ft. Drum. When I say NY people get excited about NY city, but I have to say that it is in no way related to the rest of the state. If you look at a map (which I never did till we moved here) you can see that it just hangs off one corner, rather like a booger. Where we live is very rural. All cows and corn farms and stuff like that. We are living on post - a new adventure for us, but an okay place to be. And as of this week, I think warmness has finally found us. By warm I mean all of 80, but it feels so nice after the crazy coldness that we moved into.

Cory finally got his schooling scheduled for October. He's happy about changing jobs, but is now kind of on everyones poop list because they are deploying in Oct. So he's had every crappy shift that needed to be pulled, but he's home most nights and that's a step up from the last few years.

We just picked up about 100 brochures on all the fun stuff to do and see around here, so hopefully I'll be blogging about the wonders on Northern New York soon.