No real excuse.....

My HOOAH!

I have been avoiding my blog because I really am not sure what I can and can not say while Scout is over in Iraq.

We were very lucky for the first few months after he deployed with instant messages almost every day and even though Scout would never agree I was very happy each time he made the comment that he was bored. To a mother's ears bored in a war zone means all is well, no harmful excitement. To a 1-89 Cav Scout bored means: this really sucks!!!!!!!!

However our keep in contact luck ran out on New Years Day. Due to power and phone problems at his FOB today marks one week since we have had any contact with Scout, I wake up several times at night and spend many minutes at work each day checking Facebook and IM to see if just maybe he has been able to pop on for a few minutes.

I do know that they are all fine because of a email I received from one of the wives of his Chain of Command, which eases my heart more than she will ever know. Thank you Amanda.

So on to other subjects:

I have every intention to get back into the blogging world and update more often while checking in with all of my favorite bloggers.
Hopefully I will have some Scout news soon that I can share.

Until then,

God Bless

Cav Mom

The Warrior Song

Have you heard this song yet? Its worth a listen.

A special Thank You

to Airman Mom for sending a care package to my Scout. You really made his day.
I continue to be amazed by the out pouring of kindness when it comes to Scout. I receive numerous emails and phone calls each week from people just wanting to check on him. I get the sweetest comments on Facebook when ever I post that I have talked or IM'ed with him.

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, prayers and love.


I love you Scout

Love,
Cav Mom

Saying our prayers

Not long ago I started ending my night on facebook with a prayer for our military. Then I started to include the names of some of the Scouts that are with Christopher in Iraq and whose parents, wives or any other loved one I had met thru facebook and the 1-89 page there. Then it got to the point where I was maxing out my character allowence there. So in order to continue to add names and get my prayer out there so that these Heroes would know we were thinking of them I have moved it to my side bar here.
If you would like to add a name to the prayer, please leave me a comment and I will get it updated.

Don't forget to say your own prayer for our Heroes.

I love you Scout.

{{{HUGS}}}

Cav Mom

Happy weekend all

I intend to do some redecorating here on the Cav Mom blog this weekend and hope to have it ready for it's Grand re-opening sometime tomorrow afternoon so please stop by and check it out. Leave me a comment and please say a prayer for our Soldiers.


I love you Scout


{{{ HUGZ }}}
Cav Mom

WOW!!! Where do I start?

It has been so long since I was able to sit down and blog. I guess the best place to start is close to where we left off.

We had planned to fly to New York to visit with Scout before his deployment but, then he told me that there were some things he wanted to send home so we decided to drive.

Almost there, the trip wasn't to bad. We drove straight through and other than trying to keep four people comfortable in a vehicle for 22 hours, we did ok. The leaves were starting to turn and it rained most of the time we were there but Ft. Drum was beautiful.

We visited Niagra Falls in the rain. It was amazing and I suggest anyone headed that way take the Boat Tour out into the falls.

Took Family Pictures, lots and lots of family pictures.

Toured Ft. Drum and stopped by to visit the Climb To Glory monument of a WWII Veteran giving a helping hand to a 10th Mountain Soldier. This monument is surrounded by plaques listing the many campaigns that the 10th Mtn has been involved in and many show the names of Soldiers that died during those campaigns. As Scout said "we were on holy ground".

And then it was time to say

Be Safe Scout and come home soon!!!!

It is official, we are a deployed family.

I have so many mixed feelings about this but, most of all I feel :

Pride:

I am Proud of my Scout, the entire 1-89 Cav Unit and all of the Men and Women that are protecting our freedom and giving freedom to others.

Fear:

I am afraid of what he is going through and what could happen,

and

Faith:

Faith that God has a plan for our Scout and he has not come to the end of his path here, faith in Scouts chain of command, that will make sure these young
Heroes are the best trained unit out there and faith in my Scout, who will do the best job possible and always stay true to himself.

Stay Safe Scout and all of our 1-89. We will be here waiting!!!

Greetings

from Ft. Drum NY

We are currently in Watertown NY visiting Chris during his last week on American Soil, in a few days I will officially be the mom of a deployed Soldier.

We arrived on Thursday after driving 24 hours and it has been a wonderful few days that have flown by and I am dreading tomorrow when we will have to get back in the truck and head for home.

We still are internet deprived at home and they are cracking down on our internet use at work so I am not sure how often I will be able to post in the next few weeks but, I will try to do better about checking in.

Hope everyone is doing fine.

God Bless,

aam