One of those Days

Today was one of those earplug days. Yes. Earplugs. They were a necessity in our house in Alabama when Joella was born until she was about 3 months old. Lots of screaming to say the least. Today I had to break them back out -- she wasn't very happy with her mama and sure let me know it! I guess we'll try again tomorrow.

Some of you may be wondering about Matt. He's pretty good but I think it's getting COLD over there. We still don't get to Skype often, but the times that we have I can almost see his breath. Yeah, he has to go outside to get online. Plus, he has to wake up super early because of their lack of access during the business day. Convenient, huh? I guess we should just be thankful things aren't how they used to be! He at least has the option to Skype every once in awhile so that's good.

On a different note, you Iowans probably know about Fox River Socks. The best around I think -- the only socks that don't give me blisters when I run, errr, jog, Wait, when was the last time I did that? Anyways, they are an awesome company with great energy efficient / sustainable initiatives and offer a cool Socks for Soldiers program. There is a wish list for deployed soldiers that if you fulfill a request, the company pays for shipping. Matt doesn't have a wish list and he's covered on socks for now, but I'm sure there are other soldiers over there that would be thrilled to get warm socks and an uplifting note from a stranger. I'm just pumped that there are companies are doing things like this. Check it out!

P.S. if you do place an order, try one of these coupon codes to save a few extra bucks. I can't remember which I used now, but it worked.

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