One Year Ago we returned stateside. Five Months Ago we received our household goods, not quite in the condition we expected. A month and half ago, the JAG office approved our damage claim, though the claim check took a little over a month to get to us. The replacement parts for the Sleep Number BedRead More
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Ten things Tuesday
More about this Transitional Life
Ten Things That Surprised Me about Our Transitional Life This list will include items from our transition from living in Germany and returning to the states in addition to leaving the military culture. Though I married into the military, leaving it and getting used to civilian life again has required an adjustment period. Every onceRead More
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SQT: Visiting family, friends, prairie dogs, and road runners
Does anyone else feel that June has been incredibly long? I am glad this is the last full week of June. Here are this week’s Seven Quick Takes. ~1~ I am finally done unpacking boxes! In some ways, things feel a little more cluttered and cramped since we are in a smaller space than weRead More
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The Place between Trust and Screaming
This week’s one-word prompts came in the midst of dealing with yet another round of chaos (or maybe chaos is our normal these days): Trust and Scream. I laughed out loud when the notification came through because I feel that I live between the two places these days. My friend, Hannah came up to help withRead More
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Tuesday Ten: A Fly on the Wall
Have you ever wondered where you would go if you could be a fly on the wall? Today I’m linking up with the Golden Spoons to explore that question for the Tuesday Ten. 1-3. My first three go together. If I were a fly on a wall, I would want to be watching everything my movers did,Read More
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A Productive Day is Measured in the Eyes of a FitBit
I am tired today, y’all! For a while, I felt like I really hadn’t accomplished much, but here at the end of the day, my FitBit tells me I have 13,795 steps! I can see an end in sight with the unpacking and organizing in the living/dining room area. We have at least two or three moreRead More
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Make Your Home Sing Good Morning Manic Monday
The title sums up how things are going with our move (I combined the names of today’s link ups to create it). Every few boxes, a new and unpleasant surprise awaits. Most of Sunday’s box openings contained such gifts.My husband’s goal for the afternoon was to assemble our German Shrank (wardrobe). Apart, it has many pieces which takeRead More
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SQT ~ Shipment Arrival, Settling in, Purging of Excess
Welcome to another installment of Seven Quick Takes, a quick way to review the past seven days with seven thoughts. Our stuff arrived on Monday. We have too much a lot of stuff. This became abundantly clear as they brought things in and asked where to put it and I ran out of thoughts (though that wasRead More
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Welcome Home, Caswell Family!
After the movers left, after putting my kids in their beds, I wearily trudged down the stairs thinking to myself (in the voice of Ty Pennington), “Welcome home, Caswell, Family, welcome home.” For seven months, as one little boy in a sermon illustration said, we’ve had “a home without a house to put it in.” For that sevenRead More
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Weekend Review: The Waiting is Almost Over
If you are new here and joining from a link up, welcome. This post is a bit of a review and will contain several link backs to previous posts to get you caught up (or remind you if you’ve been here but forgotten the details). Thanks for stopping by today! Our plane landed at DFW airportRead More