Blog Smog!

I admire my sister in law Jamie because she has a great blog. She always has something new and funny or witty or sad and emotional but she takes you on a daily journey. I just can't think of things to write about that often. And then I forget my camera all the time and then I wish I had something witty to say and then I wonder if anyone even looks at my blog and then I just don't update. So sometimes I wonder if I need a subject blog. Like Julie and Julia the movie. I would love ideas and or suggestions please. I would love to update people on our life, I just don't know what they would like to know. Ty fights fires and I stay home with the kids...that makes for kind of boring writing on my end of things anyway. I also write poems I could write about. Ideas, ideas, please. I will atleast tell you what my day is like today so far. I will make an attempt at explaining what's in my head.

Today, we woke up got Mina off to school and Trev and Mimi and I watched Balto and we are all still in our jammies and we are about to watch the Rescuers Down Under. I am tired today, and this is what happens when I am tired. Ty has been gone a week and will be gone another week on a fire. He was also gone in Idaho for 2 and a half weeks and in Arizona for 3 weeks and has been gone alot. Needless to say, it has been a long summer and I really miss him. But we went to Oceanside a week and a half ago and had an awesome family break time. I think we will do that every summer in the middle of summer. We found a great little hotel walking distance from the beach and one of our favorite little harbor areas. We have such a great family and when we have to be apart so much, it can do one of two things. I have found for us that the distance makes us stronger. I have watched many other fire families struggle and even seperate or get divorced. Its all about how we choose to look at it.
I always tell the kids how hard there dad is working and that he misses us so much. We tell eachother how proud we are of eachother. I know that when he has to worry about us it affects his work and he needs to be focused mentally so I don't really tell about any problems that aren't necessary. It just makes us miss eachother so much and fall deeper in love. When he is gone we have incredible talks on the phone and have lots of realizations. What I try to avoid entirely is resentment about the time he spends away. Because that is the sliver I have seen fester and break apart relationships. He is always thinking of us and every thing he does he is doing for us, so I am very grateful. We want to celebrate our relationship more and more as time goes on. Ty and I are really wanting to try to get away for a long alone time somewhere tropical in the next year. So I am filling out our passports and starting the process. In November it will be 12 years we have been married. We have realized that we need to have more fun and create more memories besides Dad works alot and mom is grouchy cuz she needs a mommy break. lol. We are just getting older and life is too short not to enjoy it.
So everyone Enjoy!