I'm new here, be kind

Before I begin, let me thank the wonderful people at the Army Wife Network for giving me this chance to blog here! After asking a friend of mine to pray for me-that I would have the strength to complete the tasks that I have taken on, SURPRISE! I'm going to be a blogger for Loving A Soldier. True story, bro.

I'd like to give you a little background info on myself, that way you can kind of put a 'face' to the person making these crazy statements from her computer! My name is Sarah Anne, and I'm a disabled Army veteran. I was in Kuwait (where I met my husband) and Iraq (where we spent our honeymoon), during my 4 year hitch for Uncle Sam. My husband is currently in Afghanistan, we have been married for almost 7 years, and we have 2 girls, Izzy who is 4, and Bullet who is 2. I'm using their nicknames, though it would have been EPIC to have a daughter named Bullet. I just tell people how fast she was born, that's how she got her nickname.

I am currently living at Fort Blistering...Oops, I mean Fort Benning. Sorry, the heat sometimes shorts out my brain cells. All of our duty stations have been in the South: North Carolina, Virginia, and now Georgia. One would think I would be used to the heat. One would be wrong.

To make the time go by faster while The Man is in the 'Stan, I try to keep myself as busy as possible. I'm a stay-at-home mom who is an FRG leader for 2 companies (don't ask...okay, you can ask in the comments!), I blog now, I make quilts for soldiers in Afghanistan, send care packages all over the world (I make a mean chocolate chip cookie), I am returning to school in the fall to start my bachelor's degree, and in between times I like to read, cross-stitch, cook, and ruckmarch. Yes, ruckmarch. This weight isn't going to just melt off in the heat, you know!