Black Friday!!

This was the first year that I was able to go shopping on Black Friday. Work schedules or lack of baby-sitters made it impossible to go. But, this year the stars aligned just perfectly for me to shop!
Michelle texted me thursday night and we plans to meet at Walmart bright and early. She laughed when she saw my list. We also meet up with Rita and Amanda. After picking up a few more deals there, we heading over to Target for the last few things on our (mine and Amanda's) list.
I was surprised how nice people were. I mean it was crazy busy, but there wasn't any pushing or shoving. I guess we were lucky, because a lot of my friends that went out this morning had a horrible time just trying to get the deals they wanted. But apparently there have been some incidents where the authorities had to get involved. I'm just glad that we didn't have any trouble.
I think that I'll be doing Black Friday Shopping again, at least until I have one of those horrible experiences.

Okay, it's been a looong time...

For those of you don't know, Jake has signed his contracts and is enlisted in the Army for 6 years as a Intelligence Analyst. He leaves for Basic Training Feb. 22nd, and should be home around the end of July, beginning of August. The girls and I will be staying with my mom in Oregon during that time.
It's a lot to deal with, but it's something that Jake has wanted to do for a long time. We started talking about it again this last June. I told Jake that if he was really serious about it, he would lose the weight that he needed to lose to be able to go in. He proceeded to lose 20 lbs. in the first month. So, after another month or two, we went in and started talking to the recruiter. We had a really informative recruiter to talk too, and we made sure to check with my brother-in-law on everything they told us.
After a lot of talking and praying, we decided that this was the way we needed to go.
We will know where they're going to station us about 2-3 weeks before he gets back from training. We're hoping for Fort Stewart, in Georgia, because that is where my sister and her husband are stationed. That way they can help us(mainly me) get adjusted into our new life.