Always on the move.

 As I sit at my desk writing this I am excited to say I made a new friend. It is someone who is moving to the area. As a soldiers wife, girl friend, or Fiance we are always on the move. Which means that I am only in a place long enough to make friends but not to have as a close friend. Well maybe I am saying this wrong. The words are hard to put together. I make friends all over the place. But when you move from one place to another it can be a little hard at first. I have to first get my family settled. Once that happens I have to then start to work on finding places to meet people. I am a picky person which also makes finding new friends difficult.
 When I say I am a picky person, it is hard to say to what level. I love meeting new people. I do not judge a book by its cover. I believe in giving everyone a chance. I am picky is a sense of where I find friends and the friends I keep. I am not an all chatty person. I try not to bitch and moan about my life too much I know everyone needs an outlet. But What I don't get is why the world always has to be falling apart for some people. And those are the ones I tend to stay away from. With that being said it seems that when I move from base to base, post to post I find that most of the women that I run into act as if that world is falling apart.
 I am a positive person. I try to find the good out of everything. Every time I move I look for the bright side of the rainbow. I have made life long friends at the places I have been and I get to see the world. I have 2 smart and wonderful kids who may not be my in blood but are mine in heart. I have a man who will do anything to make me laugh and keep me happy and knows that I would never ask for anything against his morals.
 Always being on the move keeps me active and on my toes. It opens new doors that have created a life for me that not may people get to live and enjoy. I have found that for me to be successful in my life I had to be willing to go outside of my comfort zone. With Every move I make I have had great success in both my career and in my life. I could not ask for more when it comes down to it. OK I guess I could ask to be more stable in my job and to have a better idea of what is coming next. But to be honest right now I am having fun with the undecided and unknown part of life. I have a plan, kinda like a dream, but I keep an open mind about it and know that when it is all said and done, I will be where I want to be when the time comes.
 I am young and still have a lot of life left in me. As an Army spouse we have to keep an open mind. If you close it you might miss the best part of living. If not today then when?

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being an Army Spouse isn't for everyone.

It is hard to explain how this works. It seems to me there are 2 types of women that marry Army men. They either support their husbands to the end of the world or they are bat shit crazy. There is no real middle ground. I support my fiance and his career every step of the way. I may not like everything that we have to do for the Army, but at the end of the day I have to know and understand that it was something he chose to do for both himself and for our family.

The army isn't out to get us and they don't just sit around trying to figure out how to screw us over. I guess I can say that the army has been good to us. I know it has not been great for everyone. But for those who keep finding some way to bitch about how they hate the army and how it keeps them away form their husband and family. I am not that person. Yes I dislike that I am not by my family and when my fiance was deployed it was difficult. But he is doing something for me and my family that so many people are scared to do. He is also willing to give his life not only for me but for you and yours. It is a life choice. No one told him that he had to do any of this. It is one of the few great thing about being American. You have a choice with everything you do and a Government that will not force you otherwise.

I am opinionated and out spoken and sometimes really blunt. I hurt peoples feelings and often offend people. All I ask is Please have a thick skin when reading my blogs. I have a right to my opinion as do you and when commenting on anything I write on here know that I am open minded and love conversation. I like to know how others feel so that I may be able to understand another side better. Also know that I have never done this before and wanted to try it out.

This is my blog about being a veteran of the Army and my journey as an Army Wife, a government Contractor, a step mother and life in general. I have named myself Barefoot in the Army because that is the way I like to be and my way of living life in the Army.