Today, on this so-easy-even-a-blogger-can-remember date of 11-11-11, my dad turns 81 years old. Even as a child the irony of his birthday falling on Veterans
If you’ve spent any time at all in BeckyLand, you’ll know I have three grown kids. The oldest, my beautiful and exceptionally talented writerdaughter (yes,
We are old hands at Navy boot camp graduation (technically called Pass In Review) so we knew to get there at the crack of early.
Today is sandwiched between Veterans Day and the day my second sailor leaves for Guam so I thought it was a perfect time to post
It struck me recently that we might have taken our last family vacation. At least in the traditional sense, with Mom doing all the planning
I got my “Kid in a Box” from the Navy a couple days ago. For the uninitiated, that’s the box of clothes sent home by
As I write this, my 18-year-old son has been at Navy boot camp for about 10 hours. (Maybe 11 ”” I don’t do well with
This is what Navy Corpsmen do when they’re attached to Marine divisions. How can you not be proud of them?! [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23UbTop-hM&feature=player_embedded]
For a smart person, I’m kinda dumb about some things. Like, for instance, the way time changes depending on where you are. I blame it
My son leaves today for Okinawa. Two years he’ll be gone. He doesn’t know exactly what he’ll be doing but he’ll be working at the