catch up with my life-

so i just finished a great book. it was one of those that i was really excited to finish so i read really really hard....it only took me 5 years. today i finished it and i know how it ends. you know when you read a good book and when its over you get a little bit sad and depressed and start looking for the next really amazing book? well i got to start my new amazing book today too and i'm really excited because THIS book, well its gonna last a LONG time. :)

sorry for the book analogy, but its one of the only ways i can think to explain how i'm feeling about being out of the navy. its official folks. i am now a proud owner of a dependent military id card. i am now a marine corps wife. i am now a mommy. and....this is the lucky part - despite the big change, i am still me! but now i am the me that has more time to pay attention to the really important things in life, particularly the little dude napping upstairs in a cute alligator onesie.

some of my amazing military wife/mom/awesome women/friends went to lunch with me today at chevy's to celebrate my graduation to "real life". it was such a ball, they saw 6 women coming through the door toting 6 children (and one on the way) and stashed us out on a private outdoor patio which was perfect for the 2 two-something little dudes to fly their airplanes around and crash them into the gas lamps over and over. its nice to finally feel like i have friends. feel connected in san diego. i have someone(s) to call who live right here locally if i need to vent or cry or be excited or feel lonely or need a running partner or a babysitter or just a friend to talk about nothing at all. i am quite a lucky lady. (and thanks to my ladies across the country who are always there for me as well...now if only we could "do lunch" every once in awhile!)

so, despite the strange newness of my new label in life (full-time mom. stay-at-home-mom? petey's mom. best mom ever?....haven't decided which label i am going to use yet when i introduce myself), it has happened, here i am, right here and right now in this very new moment in life with a huge expanse of adventures, travels, memories, struggles, triumphs, big hugs, dirty hands, rock collections, bug collections....and SO much more ahead of me. ahead of us.

i am ready for the ride. :)

and aren't these cool????