Mommy Musings

Nine years ago today I went from a Miss to a Mrs. I pledged my life and love to Skip. I promised for better and worse in sickness and health in good times and bad. In those nine years we have had better and worse sickness and health good times and bad. And there's no one else I'd rather live and love with than Skip. Every day I chose Skip. Happy anniversary baby!

A few months ago, I mentioned to Skip that I needed to win a contest like the Unstoppable Moms one Live with Kelly and Michael was having.  A trip to meet Michael Strahan and a grand prize of $100,000?!  That would be my dream.  Obviously I was just saying this in jest to Skip, and went about my day. A few days later I came home from the gym and saw Skip furiously typing on the computer.  When I asked him what he was doing, he said that he was working on his nomination of me for the Unstoppable Moms campaign.  I shockingly reminded him that I was just kidding when I mentioned that the other day.  But Skip said he wasn't and thought I deserved to win. With the nomination, you have to write a little essay on what makes this particular mom unstoppable.  I didn't have the guts to read what Skip wrote about me for a few weeks after he submitted it, but when I finally did, I absolutely had tears in my eyes.  I obviously wasn't a finalist as I'm really n...

As you all know, this blog is called Mommy Musings.  And while I sometimes blog about myself, or some sponsored posts, I mainly talk about my girls and being a mom.  That's why I started this blog afterall. But today I'm going to take a break from all the mommy-ness and talk about my husband, my Skip.  We've been together for ten years now, married for eight.  I knew he was something very special the moment I met him.  Our attraction towards each other was immediate, and after one night of meeting, we belonged only to each other.  So our feelings, our desire to be together, that was the easy part.  But it's not to say that our relationship has been easy.  In the past decade we have dealt with long distance, the police academy, activation and a deployment, buying a dog, buying a condo, losing a friend, a few jobs for me, weird cop hours, a few cars, selling a condo, buying a house, two pregnancies, two beautiful baby girls, hard career decisio...

Skip and I will be married SEVEN years in July.  It know it's not really that long in the grand scheme of life, but it is long enough to give me a little street credit when I dole out relationship advice.  Wanna hear my seven tips for seven years of marriage??  Head on over to Crystal's blog {who just got married on Saturday!!} and check out my guest post!!

Whoops, totally meant to write this post on Sunday.  Anyways, this past weekend we went down the shore to cheer on Skip as he ran the annual Long Beach Island 18 mile race!  Skip has been a good runner since well, boot camp.  But only for pleasure.  The only other race he has ever been in was a 5K he did with my big sis a year and a half ago.  So this was going to be big! This is a pretty big race and almost 1000 people run it every year.  It stretches from one end of the 18 mile island to the other.  It's nice and flat and great for running.  The only downside is that there is only one road  that runs the entire length of the island.  And they close that road for the race, obviously.  Which meant that  we could only see Skip at the finish line.  We couldn't see him at the start or anywhere else along the route :(  But the finish was the most important to me! Skip drove himself to registration and took a bus down to t...

For some unknown reason, I was thinking of wedding songs today.  I think the first song really says alot about a couple. Skip and I had a really tough time trying to come up with a wedding song.  We do not agree on music at all.  I tell him he only likes 'old man' music {stuff from our parents generation} and I could easily pass for a teeny bopper with my choices.  So agreeing on just one song proved rather difficult. The months he was in Iraq we would email lists of tons and tons of songs back and forth that we both wanted.  Not one song was the same and we each vetoed every single one of the other's pics. It wasn't until late June that we finally made our choice {which was good since we got married in July!} We were stuck in hours and hours of traffic coming back from Jesse's funeral.  The Pretender's song 'I'll Stand By You' came on the radio.  I commented that I had always loved that song since they used to play it during the previews for the mov...

I've seen this survey on a few other blogs, and I decided to fill it out myself! 1. When is your “engagement” anniversary: August 8, 2004 2. When is your “marriage” anniversary: July 29, 2005 3. How long have you known your spouse: seven years 4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged:    ten months 5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time? in my best friend's backyard 6. What is your spouse’s full name: Skip {sorry, gotta keep him a little private!}   7. Do you have any children: yes 8. How many – boys/girls: one beautiful girl 9. Do you have any house pets: Yup...two dogs {one Shiba Inu and one Bulldog} and two fish 10. Do you own a house or rent: Own 11. Do you live in the country or town/city: town 12. What is one of your favorite activities together: hiking {though we haven't done that since before Little M!} and just driving around together 13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: Long Beach Island, NJ 14. When did you first kiss? on our fi...

Today is a very special day.  Seven years ago today my life changed forever, though I didn't know it at the time.  I met the man I would spend the rest of my life with, my Skip.  Here is the post I wrote last year recapping that special day and the beginning of our relationship!  I love you more and more every day Skip! 08.24.03 Seven years ago today my best friend Kat invited me over her house to hang out in her backyard. It was a gorgeous summer evening and she and her boyfriend were having a few friends over. I had just finished my summer job as a camp counselor and was looking forward to a week off before heading back to University in Connecticut for my junior year. I was definitely not looking for a boyfriend.  My friend casually mentioned that a Marine was going to be there {I already sort of had this huge  thing for military guys}. I just thought that it would be someone I could talk to. Little did I know that this whole evening had already been plan...

I have a total love/hate relationship with my husband's work schedule.  As far as cop's schedules go, we are very lucky that we know what days he's working for the whole year, for the most part.  He has a rotating schedule of four days on, two days off for three weeks and then one week of five days on two days off.  One week he works 7 am to 3 pm.  The next week he works 3 pm to 11 pm.  That only changes when he takes overtime after a shift.  Overtime is another eight hours long.  Then there are the days he works at the police academy from 8 am to 4 pm.  And then sometimes he works a funeral or parade for the honor guard, and those hours depend on what he's doing. Are you still following me?  Haha.  Needless to say we have three different calenders/agendas each filled with when and where he is working.  Because he is rarely off on a weekend I can never seem to keep straight what day of the week it is! When we were first married, and...

Today Skip and I celebrate our five year wedding anniversary.  FIVE YEARS!!!  I cannot believe.  I honestly can't believe it has been that long.  It feels like just yesterday.  What's the saying?  Time flies when you're having fun! We were just babies when we got married, I was 22 and Skip 23.  We had known each other for less than two years.  He had been home from Iraq for only a few months, and I had just graduated from college two months prior.  But we were in love.  Deep, passionate, real, forever love.  I honestly did not think I could love him more than at the moment I said "I do". But the crazy thing is, I love him so much more now than I did July 29, 2005!!  Every day I find another reason to fall in love with Skip.  He is my husband, my love, the father of my child, my best friend.  There is no one else in the world I love more.  My favorite thing is just hanging out with him.  He brings out the bes...