Our New Normal...

Nearly 5 years ago this blog was created as a means to keep Brad connected to his family despite being deployed to Kyrgyzstan. Since then the family has grown, the assignment has changed, the location is new, technology has evolved...however, this blog still exists and is being used once again as a way to document our journey as we're faced with the challenges of another deployment.

My consistency with this blog has waned throughout the years. Facebook, although phenomenal for keeping in touch, has been detrimental to the blogging world, myself included. My personal intent for ever starting a blog was as a means to document our journey for our children. At times it has served as an outlet for my thoughts. More often it has recently documented the various milestones my girls achieve. But in its infancy it was a source of comfort to me as it enabled me to have conversations that may have never occurred in any other forum.

I decided that as I figure out our new normal in Brad's absence it was time for a new look and a renewed commitment to this blog. Thank you so much to my friend Heather for her design work! I used to be motivated to write as I knew there was an audience reading. I now have no idea how many still follow or read but I'm now motivated by my girls. They are old enough to read and we have spent hours on the couch reading portions of my blog that I have already published. They love it and have asked me to write more...and so the journey continues.