The biggest blessing I’ve had this week is that Jeremy got to come home and stay for a whole week!  He’s almost done “playing Navy”, that is, being on a ship, at least for a little while.  It’s been so good to have him home. It’s amazing how my stress levels have been lower this [...]

Today is my youngest nephew’s birthday. He is four years old today. He is my brother’s son. His mom regularly writes a blog called “Where the Wild Things Are.” There’s a link to it in my sidebar. I’m sure she will be posting birthday greetings. You can also see pictures of “his cuteness” there. I’m [...]

Every month the base does a “fun run.”  Usually it’s around a holiday, but April doesn’t have a holiday, at least not at this time of the month, so they called this one the Fitness Fun Run.  It is 5K.  That is five kilometers or a little over three miles.  It is four laps around [...]

If you haven’t read the post directly preceding this one, read that first.  This is a continuation. Jeremy emailed me some pictures.  He said to mention he’s been stationed on the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).  It is the only ship in the US Navy to have a British officer permanently stationed aboard.  He [...]

I am pleased to announce that Jeremy is now Surface Warfare qualified.  Yay, Jeremy!  (Insert huge round of applause here.) You may remember from my earlier post about it that he had a whole series of things he had to do to get this qualification: He had to complete some books And then take a [...]

I promised you I would post the winner of the Bahrain Gulf Air Grand Prix.  I know it’s a little late, but work’s been crazy lately.  So the winner is (drum roll) Ferrari’s Felipe Massa who is from Brazil.  He won last year too.  The race was 57 laps and his time was 1 hour [...]

Today is going to be a little update on what I’ve been up to lately. Saturday I went to the BSPCA or the Bahrain Animal Shelter.  No, I was not looking for a pet, although I wanted to take a bunch of them home with me.  I went with a friend to volunteer there.  The [...]

Today is the third and final day of the Bahrain Gulf Air Grand Prix.  The event is huge here and officially started on Friday, continued on Saturday, and will finish today, Sunday.  It is Formula One racing.  For those who don’t know, Formula One is the “funny-looking race car” racing.  It’s the kind, when you got [...]

Today, April 1, is April Fool’s Day.  It is also the Chief Petty Officers of the Navy’s birthday, and no, that’s not April Fool’s joke.  It really is.  At my command they celebrated by wearing khakis (they usually wear DCU–desert camouflage uniform) and eating cookies that our OIC (Officer in Charge) bought them.  So Happy [...]