Lisa P's comments

Being Military Around the Holidays - Blog Entry

03 Jan 2007 12:35 PM

More often than not, we've had to postpone our holidays due to deployments, TDYs and schools. My family (not military) never really understood it. Having been active duty myself, it made total sense to postpone holidays when I married a military man.

As for travel, well nobody seems to understand that at all. Everybody wants us to go to them on the holidays but they just don't understand the logistical and financial nightmare involved. You don't know if you'll have leave until about 3 days prior to the date you're scheduled to go and NOBODY can afford a plane ticket purchased three days before Christmas! Do you send your kids' Christmas presents ahead and hope that you'll get the leave? What if leave is canceled and all the children's presents have already been shipped to Florida? What do you do with the plane tickets?

Then you just might have the sort of family that tries to guilt you into taking the kids to them and leaving dad at home to work through the holidays. Yeah, Merry Christmas...NOT!

Thanks for bringing this up - I wish more people understood what it is like to be a military family!

Assistance Dogs of the West and The Lessons They Teach - Blog Entry

03 Jan 2007 12:19 PM

Great blog! What an amazing program!

Emergen-C - Blog Entry

02 Jan 2007 07:52 PM

Glad I could help :-) It really is amazing how some extra vitamins can really help us lose weight. It seems as though if our bodies aren't getting enough of the right nutrients, everything stalls.

Let's Talk About Handling Unwanted Belly Comments - Blog Entry

02 Jan 2007 11:58 AM

Wow! I'm so glad you addressed this!

Removing Carpet Stains - Blog Entry

02 Jan 2007 11:10 AM

Use the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser! I used it on dried on tea stains on my carpet and it worked like a charm! It was absolutely magical! It also worked on pet stains (you know that yellow bile that stains anything? Well Mr. Clean did a job on that too!

Legal System Fails Child in Horrible Abuse Case - Blog Entry

01 Jan 2007 08:28 AM

I had a 16-year old friend, Becky, who had been sexually abused for years by her mother's boyfriend. After a difficult court battle, the man was supposedly out of their lives. Sadly, when Becky's mother (Bad Mom) discovered she was pregnant with the man's child, she informed Becky that she would have to leave her home (and her little sister) and live with her father because the boyfriend was moving back in and Bad Mom and boyfriend would be raising their child together. This woman effectively chose her boyfriend over her own child's safety.

Shortly after 16-year-old abused Becky received her eviction orders, she put a bullet in her own head and died.

The system doesn't work.

Review: Mr. Clean Magic Eraser - Blog Entry

30 Dec 2006 09:07 AM

OK, I did a crazy thing and gave this bad boy a try on my carpet. I had tea stains and a pet stain that were making me crazy. I've tried every chemical on them except bleach and all to no avail.

The Magic Eraser worked like a charm!!!

There was no discoloration of my carpet except for the removal of the pesky stains. This this is AWESOME!

Food Storage: Milk - Blog Entry

29 Dec 2006 03:11 PM

My son is still a toddler so I don't want to only offer him skim milk if we get snowed in. This is great information about evaporated milk! I'm going to stock up on the 3%. Thank you so much!

Five Last Minute Preparations for Winter Weather - Blog Entry

29 Dec 2006 03:06 PM

Great blog! I live in Denver and these tips are VERY handy!

Military Preparations for the Beginning & End of the Holidays - Blog Entry

29 Dec 2006 07:40 AM

LOL! Don't I know this! I've already begun putting together our travel plans for the 2007 holidays. Traveling long distance means we'll need to send gifts ahead, board our dogs during the busiest time of year for boarding and plan for winter contingencies in the Rockies. It isn't easy being the family Loadmaster! :-)