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My wife found this and I thought it was great enough to share. If you have children it really hits home.

If You Can Remember

If you can remember that it takes three of my steps to equal one of yours;

If you understand that I must view life at an eye level three feet below yours;

If you can touch my life with your faith, without taking away my need for self-determination;

Then I can grow, learn, and become.

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If you can remember that it takes time for me to gain the experience in living you have already had;

If you can understand that Continue reading…

She’s a crafty one ‘eh? Asia went to town the other night doing one of her secret projects that she had a sudden inspiration to do. It’s quite interesting for her Mom and I to sit back and watch her think her way through her projects. How she get the inspiration is anyone’s guess, but I imagine her love of all things pretty kind of helps. Here we have Asia showing off one of her newest creations… butterfly wings. The next morning she made some crowns with little antennae on them for her and Liberty. Here she is showing off Continue reading…

This is no doubt the product of what happens when a house full of little girls are in charge of picking out the Father’s Day Cake. Oh well, it was good! Happy Father’s Day!

The NavyTimes has a new blog on the street seemingly having everything to do with the sea services… the SCOOP DECK, not to be confused with the poop deck (naval architecture). Though to be honest I don’t know how you may confuse the two. And to push them on CGBlog they found a story citing the Coast Guard as winning the first Armed Forces Cup Perpetual Trophy this past week. The story is actually over on the Alameda Sun- D11’s world- pointing out that the race involving the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard was to determine who was the fastest Continue reading…

A must read, not Coast Guard, but still a must. For part of my studies I’ve been reading NOT A GOOD DAY TO DIE by Sean Naylor, a story on the chaos and courage in the mountains of Afghanistan (it say’s it right on the cover). As one who was prior Army I find myself still in a state of learning as I read this. I was unaware of the amount of activity our Special Ops community did (even though I was one of ‘em) in the world, especially after 9/11. If you want a good back story to the Continue reading…