Koopman Kraziness

My mother sent this to me in an email earlier tonight and I didn't feel right to NOT share it. Enjoy! When I was a little, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite! When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: "Baby, I love burned biscuits." Later that night, I went to hug Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burne...

There's so much to catch you up on...thankfully I think everyone who reads this blog I also chat with in real time. We have about 6 months left in our deployment if things go as planned, but with the Army who knows? :) Jeff is in general in good spirits. The days have been hard on him but he's pressing through by the grace of God. We are on course to have around 10K worth of debt paid of by January 1 and I am SO excited. We'll have an almost clean slate to start with when Jeff returns from deployment. I am keeping myself busy trying to get correspondence courses completed, getting MOPS off the ground and keeping Kamden out of trouble. The last thing on its own is a HUGE task! He's found out much he enjoys playing in the dog bowls and has developed an affinity for the taste of dog food...blech. Kibble kisses aren't the most fun but when they come from such a sweetheart, how can I refuse them? He is ALL over the place now. He still crawls part of the time, b...