On military life

The hard goodbyes and wonderful hellos of the military life...

A comment made by a friend on Facebook, a career Naval officer currently serving a (recently extended) remote duty tour on Diego Garcia.  It just really struck me and resonated for me.  So true.  The goodbyes are so hard but the trade off is all the wonderful hellos that you never would've had otherwise.  A hard life in many ways and yet a blessed way of life too.  I am grateful to have had so many wonderful experiences and seen so many places thanks in part to the nomadic military life I have lived, first as a dependent, then as an active service member, and now as a dependent once again.

Friendship Quote

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
-Pam Brown

On love...

Absence dimishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Sweat is fat crying.
-Bob Harper

Inspiring Road Trip

This was such an interesting story.  Gunther and his wife and their Mercedes named Otto travelled the world for 23 years, driving more than 500,000 miles.

The story here and a very nice slide show here.

My favorite part - this quote from Gunther...

"The more you have travelled, the more you realize how little you have seen."
-Gunther Holtorf

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I don't have issues - I have entire subscriptions!

(stolen from a friend's Facebook wall)

Thanks for the laugh Stephanie! :)

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A year from now you will wish you had started today.

-Karen Lamb

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Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
~ H. Jackson Brown



Well then... guess I'd better stop whining and get to work!

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
~Edgar W. Howe



Just a little quote to start the summer... in exactly one week all of the kids will be out of school until September 8.

I hope we all survive!

And now I'm back to the Scrapbook Fairy Sweatshop... two more Class Gift Scrapbooks to crank out before Thursday!

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I will conquer my procrastination problem...just you wait!

-unknown

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Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

-James Buckham

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"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.” ~Terry Pratchett

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin Roosevelt

Merry Christmas Everyone!

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
-Peg Bracken

A Quote and some trivia

"Christmas isn't Christmas until somebody cries."
-Donkey in Shrek the Halls

That made me chuckle. It's true!

And now for your trivia bit of the day... What is the dog's name in How The Grinch Stole Christmas? Answer: Max.

Any guesses as to what I'm doing tonight? Did you guess watching Christmas specials on TV? Probably. But I bet you didn't guess that I'm also folding laundry.

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
- George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Found this on a marathon-training site. (And no, I'm not planning to run a marathon!) A friend is training for a half-marathon and asked if I would like to run. I went to the website to see what sort of training is involved as perhaps I can run with her from time to time. But NOT in the race!

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"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers." -Edgar W. Howe

5 days and counting...

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Quote of the Day: "It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent." -Dave Barry

The cub scout campout was last night (I wasn't there - sadly (or not!) I had to fulfill my obligation to vendor at a crop and couldn't make it to the campout) so this quote seemed appropriate for today. I don't think it rained this time though so we could be in for it next time!

Another quote

Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those who sing best.
-Anonymous

(I usually only post one quote on any given day but this was too good to not post. And we all know, if I wait, I will forget!)

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-- Charles Dickens