My kids! They make me smile

Here I am just watching a show on TV -Flip your house-and Daven walks in just as they have an advertisement for parents on when and how to talk about "Sex" to their kids. A little weird and I switched the Chanel but Daven of course caught it. He told me not to worry because he knows what that word means. WHAT!!!! HELLO!!!! You are 8!!!!
So I ask him what all he knows and of course who told him. He said:"I know mom it means that a boy and a girl go shopping." (OK-there must be more) I ask him why I would change the channel then and he said :"It's because of the kissing,Mom." (Here we go,...) Daven:"They go shopping and kiss- but at least we don't live in France and don't have to FRENCH KISS." (So,what do you know about french kisses and who told you?!) Daven:"A boy in first grade and he says you have to lick each others tongue! That's nasty! What if the other person just ate crackers?!" Gotta love them) So I ask him how this all works and he explains that the people in France,Japan,China -and Yes- Hawaii, they all French kiss. People in America,Germany,Italy,... kiss normal- just like a good bye kiss!!!
He told me that I have nothing to worry about,since we are going to Georgia and they kiss normal. Can you believe my luck ?! :)

This is what I'm thankful for today! Those little innocent kids that always put a smile on my face!
I love them so much!!!

This weather!

Well,nothing exciting is happening but I just feel like posting something!
Today is another "dark" day.It's going to rain any minute which locks us in the house again!
The last couple of days I had some girl time and I really enjoyed it. It's just so nice to come back home and have your batteries recharged-even though I'm always exhausted after a couple of hours out and all I want to do is take a nap :).
This weekend we do not really have any plans yet since it's going to rain-again. We might go back to the "monkey business" and let the kids climb around (since otherwise they'll be doing it on my furniture).
At least I get to dream about the new home and since an old neighbour on another blog challenged everybody to be thankful for something everyday I do have to say- I'm so thankful that we are all healthy and have everything we need! We do have a really good life!

Mike on the Mic...

...well sort of! Finally finished up a bunch of different exercises so I'm enjoying my last couple of weeks of "academic" schedules. We had an interesting week last week working with the folks from the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) on some potential operations that could happen within the US. I also got to eat lunch with the Army Chief of Staff, General Casey. Some of the big takeaways from that meeting was the fact that the new army uniform will NOT have the ugly proposed grey shirt with it under the Blues...thank goodness. Also, it seems that color patches on the combat uniforms may be making an authorized comeback. See, we talked about all the important stuff. We also got to talk about the new Army Operations Field Manual (FM 3-0). SAMS did some reviews last year on the manual and some of them made it into the final cut, which was good to see.

Needless to say we are all excited for the upcoming move. I was at transportation scheduling our pick up dates and we close on our house 1 May!!!! I'm trying to get down there for the closing but everything is schedule dependent. If not, we'll close by mail. We can't wait to move into the new house and the main street neighborhood!

Ok, I better find out what my daughter is up to. Daddy's little girl is as cute as a button...but a handful as well!