Army Wife Roaring

I was having a great day today. I even wore my Army Wife Network t-shirt to preschool, the one that says my husband serves so yours won't get drafted. I have had the kids to school on time, lunches packed, picked up on time, dinner on the table, homework done, and the laundry attacked. I was mowing the lawn this afternoon with my youngest in the backpack thinking "I am an Army Wife hear me roar," feeling pretty good about how I have handled the first week of deployment.

Then...


I ran the lawn mower over a giant bullfrog. It was the grossest most disgusting pile of guts. All the air went out of my balloon, I sniffled my way through the rest of the lawn. I tried to pick up the decimated Kermit, but I couldn't. My feel good hooah Army wife moment destroyed with a swing of the blades.

I prepared myself for so much, it is always the stuff you don't anticipate that gets you. No one expects the frog guts.