Song Link Up *Club Can't Even Handle Me*

Link up HERE with Goodnight Moon.



My song choice today is Club Can't Handle Me by Flo Rida

It's just so upbeat it makes me want to dance every time.

Enjoy!

You smelt it, you dealt it.

That brings on a whole new meaning in my life. I am officially a Scentsy consultant as of today :-)

It's true LOOK!

I am seriously in love with this and I have extremely high hopes of doing extremely well.
If you haven't heard of it before or just want to check it out follow that link and you'll see my page.

Oh, and feel free to order anything your heart desires ;-) I'm warning you though, you're going to fall and you're going to fall hard. In love that is.

If you are really interested you can host all sorts of parties. I can even send you out a basket full of Scentsy goodies for you to share with as many people as you want. Then you just collect orders and send it back to me. How awesome is that???

One of my blog ladies is a consultant, well actually a couple of them are. But I was going to do a basket party with one but while looking around the website I realized how much I love it and decided to become a consultant myself!

I'm excited. As you can probably tell. But yea, that's my big news for the day. I have an interview for that Administrative assistant job at Kohl's tomorrow. Maybe I'll hit a home run and score 2 new jobs in one week. How awesome would that be?

It won't last forever. But we will.

I can't even describe to you the emotions that ran through my body last night. My husband and I entered into a war, Afghanistan vs. NY part 2. I wont get into the nitty gritty but feelings were hurt, tears were cried, and patience was tested. It was definitely one of the biggest and toughest fights we have ever had.
But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Sure, during the fight I felt like my heart was being ripped out and torn apart. I don't know why I always let myself feel so much in a fight. I know that we are always going to come out the other side with just a little dirt to brush off.

But that's the point. We always make it through even our most disgusting arguments. We aren't perfect, but perfection is boring. In one of my letters from when he was in bootcamp my husband wrote to me "Our story may not be the happily ever after story we imagined when we were younger but that doesn't mean it doesn't count and it isn't perfect." I've never heard more romantic words from this man before. And they are true. We're in no way cinderella and prince charming but we certainly give Mulan and Shang a run for their money ;-)
(Yea, I do love my disney.)

Anyways, this is pretty much a post about how appreciative I am to have such a wonderful husband. We argue, disagree, and pout, but we are always in love and that won't ever change.

What a weekend

This weekend was hectic. I volunteered to help out at a town fundraiser to raise money for our troops. It was supposed to be Friday but it got drowned out. I say drowned because it down poured and then had a lovely lightening storm.

We picked back up this afternoon and it was such a blast. My job was face painting and let me tell you that was an adventure. I'm no artist but thank god kids don't really care. We raised lots of money and there were lots of awesome vendors there.

One thing I did today that I have been dying to do for a while now is sign up to host a Scentsy Party!! Yay!! I was going back and forth on it and the lady said that she would give me the new cupcake warmer as my hostess gift if I held one in July so you bet I jumped at that opportunity! I am so excited because I have been holding off for so long and I am a candle fanatic so I know that Scentsy will be perfect for me.

I wish that I could have had one of my friends that are consultants host my party with me but since I now live in NY and not NC it's not possible. :-(

But let me tell you, after talking with the consultant today I might decide to become one myself!

Anyways, I am worn out. Baby girl hasn't napped all day and is still up. Actually I think she may have just decided to fall asleep, thank you God.

On that note, I'm headed to bed myself. Night all!

Alright, I'll admit it. I Miss You.

It just doesn't feel right when I get into bed at night. You're not on your way out of it to finally use the bathroom.
Although I wake up to the most beautiful girl in the world, I miss the 5 am "I Love You I'll see you when I get home" kiss.
When 5pm rolls around I'm not anxiously looking out the window to see you pull into the drive way or cursing your job when you have to stay late.
I miss having to wonder if you're going to sneak up behind me while I'm doing the dishes and scare me half to death.
I miss having to rush into the shower when you tell me you're on your way home so that you don't know I had a lazy day.
I miss having you to cuddle with at night and watch all our recorded television.
I've actually had to look under my hood instead of telling you something sounds funny.
I miss the way you smell after you come home from work.
I miss the way I would always catch you staring at me and smiling for no reason at all.
I don't have to yell at you every 5 seconds for biting your nails and I actually kind of miss that.
I'm not worried about being woken up in the middle of the night because you're talking crazy in your sleep. I miss that.
I miss telling you every day that you have a hole in your shorts but never remembering to actually sew them up for you.
I miss cooking dinner and having you wait for me to decide I can't eat anymore so that you can finish mine instead of getting up to get seconds.
I miss knowing that you hate when I ask you what you're thinking about but not being able to stop myself anyways.
I miss laughing together at the people who say that a husband and wife shouldn't spend all of their time together.
I miss having my best friend around all of the time, whenever I need you.

I miss you. I miss us. I miss everything.

But I'm strong. Strong enough to smile at all of our great memories and not cry because we can't be together right now. Strong enough to hold it together until you come home.

I Love You Jonathan. Forever and Always<3

I should probably start now

Recently one of my girls got her hubby back from deployment. It got me thinking about homecoming signs and the fact that I don't do anything unless I do it big. So, I really need to start working on a witty saying for my husband's homecoming sign now.

I can actually do 2 since he comes home for r&r in a couple weeks. Which means I really need to get cracking. I don't want the same sign that every other horny wife has. You know the one I'm talking about. They say things like "hope you slept on the plane" or involve the word "debrief."

Don't get me wrong, it can be cheesy as hell but I want it to be unique. So I'm recruiting everyone reading this. Help me be creative with homecoming signs for my husband. (Yes, I am preparing really early. I fully expect this creativity to take some time.)

Song link up *Remind Me*

So this is my song for this weeks link up with Goodnight Moon. I hope you like it. It always puts a smile on my face.

One down, 11 to go.

I have officially finished my first class of 12 to finish my bachelors. They are each only 4 weeks long which I will say is AMAZING! It starts and then in a blink of an eye it's over and I still learn more than I do in a regular class. I am so thrilled to finally be completing this milestone.

I got an A and as long as things go according to plan, preferably an A in every class, then I should be done in May or June. I have all but 3 classes scheduled and enrolled for. I can't enroll in the last 3 until December so hopefully they will just pick up after my first section of classes are finished so I can be done around June.

In other news, baby girl hasn't been feeling well and neither have I. For the past month I have had the worst allergies. Full on symptoms 24/7. Let me tell you I have been miserable. I am finally on medicine and feeling better though.

As for Abi, she just started to be congested in her chest and severely in her nose. As well as a little ear infection. She is not on an antibiotic and a nebulizer to decongest her, hopefully.

She seems to be doing good though, minus the excessive amounts of mucus coming from her.

That's all for now. Ill be here tomorrow with my song link up!

It's my birthday!

Today is my birthday! Hello number 21, oh how I've been waiting for you. Now I can officially say that I will never look forward to another birthday ever. haha.

2 years ago today the amazing man I now get the privilege of calling my husband graduated from Marine Corps basic training. 2 Years ago I received the best birthday present any girl could ever ask for; I got  the love of my life.

It's a little dark but you get the idea. Yes, I did get that shirt specially made for that day. I couldn't help but be so proud of my husband and excited that I got the best present ever!! 

Unfortunately this year my husband can't be with me to celebrate. But that's A-Ok. This year instead of returning to me he sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. 

I love that he remembers my favorite flower. It was an absolutely perfect present because a) I didn't expect it in the slightest and b) I didn't even need to open the box to have the biggest smile on my face. 

You done good babe ;-) 

Oh, and just incase you didn't know today is also Father's Day. Happy 1st Father's day to my wonderful husband<3 

Today is wonderful

It's only 11:40 and today is already wonderful. I love getting mail and today I loved it twice as much.

I went to visit my mother in law this morning with Abigail and when I returned home I had 2 things waiting for me. First was my new license with an awesome picture on it that I'm not ashamed to show off. And second was BIRTHDAY FLOWERS FROM MY PAPA BEAR!!!

He sure knows how to surprise a lady. Not only was I not expecting flowers from him, you know since he's in Afghanistan and all. But I certainly wouldn't expect them 2 days before my birthday.

He was even sweet enough to get lilies that weren't bloomed so that they would bloom on my birthday. He is such a sweetheart<3 I can't wait to see them open up. Lilies are my absolute favorite flower in the whole wide world. So far I can tell that there are 4ish pink and white ones and then I believe the others are blue!!

I'll make sure I post pictures once they are open and oh so beautiful.

Thank you Papa Bear<3 Constantly proving that you can be half way around the world and still be the romantic lover boy I know you are<3

Song Link Up

Yet another wonderful week which brings another song link up with Goodnight Moon.

What's my song this week? Knee Deep by the Zac Brown Band ft. Jimmy Buffet. It's uplifting and I love it.

Working again...

I really want to work again. I want to be able to save some more money and I don't want a huge gap in my employment.

I have an interview already at the end of the month. Kohl's is opening a new store near me and I applied to be an administrative assistant. The store is opening until September I believe so I would be trained in the next couple months and then be a part of the hiring process for the rest of the hourly staff workers.

I'm excited for this potential opportunity because I really want to get back to work and I think I would be awesome at this job. Also, since the job doesn't start until September, I wouldn't have to take time off while Jon is home on R&R :-)

The only thing that is making me really uneasy about going back to work is Abigail. I really don't want to take time away from her but I really want to have a double income household right now. I don't want just anyone watching her though so I'm nervous. I should probably start interviewing people now since my standards are pretty high lol. I would love it if I had family who could watch her but I'm not sure that's a possibility.

Being a mom is tough :-( The toughest part is definitely deciding to take time away from them and trust someone else with your baby.

Future

Have you ever wished you could just skipped certain things and move right to the next phase of your life?

Once my Papa bear comes home from this deployment he has just about a year left with this enlistment. He is getting out and we are going to be moving towards Charlotte, NC. I want to just skip to the part where we move to Charlotte.

First of all, I hate the moving process. Secondly, I just want to be settled and not feel like a nomad anymore. I hate living somewhere I know I will only be for a short time. I just never feel settled and completely unpacking is out of the question.

I want to be in the part of our lives where I have my family with me every night. Where we can make our house our home and finally feel settled. I want to be able to make plans and know that we can keep them. I want dinner at the same time every night and family time without worrying about trainings or deployments.

I want to really take the time to get to know our neighbors because we will be living next to them for longer than a year at a time.

I just want my family, no strings attached.

Couponing, to the extreme.

Yes, we all know about this new craze going around with coupons. I personally don't have the patience or time to get this done. I do clip coupons here and there when I see them though.

I am impressed by this don't get me wrong. But I can't help but wonder what the heck the stores or manufacturers are thinking. They have to watch this show and realize how fast this is taking on. They have got to be losing money with all of these coupons.

Think about this for a second. If everyone in america did this extreme couponing stores wouldn't get any profit. I wouldn't say that our economy would necessary be any worse off. But eventually it would all have to end. Advertising how to do this might very well be the downfall of coupons.

And another thing, who the heck wants 50 bottles of shampoo or 80 boxes of cereal at one time? I like to switch my shampoo up every now and then and I definitely switch my cereal up every other day or so.

These women must have mechanically challenged husbands too. Most of them store all their excess in their garage. I have a husband who loves cars and loves his garage. If I filled the walls of our garage with bars of soap and tooth paste I'm not sure I would have a happy husband.

Last little thing about this. I think TLC is confused. They have a show on extreme couponing where they teach you to buy in bulk and store things. Then they have a show about hoarding where they come to your house and throw everything away. Hello, make up your minds!

Peace and quiet

I never thought I'd get this. Living at home is, let's just say it's busy. 

But today everyone was out of the house and no one is coming back until tomorrow afternoon. It has been pure bliss. Abigail and I just relaxed all day and it's almost as if all the stress and tension that has been building up has just disappeared. 

Unfortunately, it just makes me even more eager to get back to NC.

Song link up *Getting you home*

This song is beyond suiting for my current mood. All I want is to have my husband home with me again. This was the last song we danced to at our wedding. Every time I hear it I can't help but smile because this is exactly how our date nights always go. What can I say, he's just irresistible to me.

I hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to keep this going by linking up here.

My littlest marine

Tonight my little darling spent quality time with her grandma (my MIL) and grandpa (FIL). Here is a wonderful picture that they took.

Yes, there is spit up on her shirt and yes she is super duper moto. I couldn't resist sending her with her camo/marine jamies. Cute right?

And of course, still looking exactly like her daddy. Maybe one of these days she will at least slightly resemble her mama. 

Take a guess...

Yup, I'm asking for your opinions again.

This time on something I might need to use one day in the future. Ok so here's the thing. How would you feel if the person who was babysitting your baby was taking pictures of them and putting them on their own facebook? Now I'm not talking about family members babysitting and I'm not talking risk-ay pictures or anything.

I'm bringing it up because I know this girl who babysits for a like 7 month old and she takes tons of pictures constantly and puts them on her facebook. I mean the kid has his own album. She takes pictures of him every second he moves it seems like.

At first I was like I really hope the parents know she's doing that and then I was just trying to figure out how I feel about it. I mean sure take pictures of him and give the pics to his parents but I'm not sure I'd be ok with her posting them all over facebook. If I didn't know better I would think this kid was hers. It just seems a little strange.

Anyways, I'm always trying to be less judgmental and more accepting as well as patient so I would love some opinions on this. Do you think I'm just too paranoid or protective? I probably am but until someone tells me I wont ever change lol.

Our solution, and some other bits and pieces

If you read my previous post you know that I was going back and forth about my feelings for facebook.

I talked to my husband last night and we came up with a solution. We rarely immediately agree on anything btw so this was rather impressive. We both agree that facebook is a huge time waster but it gives us an easy and great way to stay connected with our loved ones. So what did we decide?

Well... we're deleting facebook. Not right away though. We are going to delete them once he returns home from this deployment. It's the easiest way for him to be able to see pictures of our daughter and I don't want to take that away from him. I could send them in an email but he says that downloading them takes forever.

Anyways, back to our decision. I have posted on my status that I will be deleting my facebook once he returns home and if anyone wants to stay in contact with us they should message me for my information. If people want to stay connected with us then they will put in the effort to email, write letters, call, or read my blog. I'm tired of facebook being such a time consuming part of my life. It's really pathetic and I'm putting my foot down.

Mr. Sykes and I will be cutting down our computer time and replacing it with more quality time as a family. We have to set an example for our daughter if we want her to understand that there is so much more to life than the internet.

I will however still have this blog. Our loved ones will be able to stay updated and see pictures of Abigail on here so I didn't want to cut them off completely. And it's not just me who posts on here anymore. There will be times when you get a post from Mr. Sykes as well.

So here is my first step in rebelling against facebook. I openly admit that I'm addicted and I hate that I am. Goodbye facebook, hello fresh air and family time! (In 9 months or so of course).

Opinions

I really want to get everyone's opinions on facebook. I'm having a hard time with it lately. 99.9% of the time I can't stand it. the other .1% of tolerability is only when I can communicate with family and friends and share photos.

I've gone back and forth on the idea of deleting it. No, the drama scale hasn't hit the roof or anything. I'm just sick of a lot of things. Here is my facebook Cons list.

• Anyone can add you as a friend, even if they have no idea who you are and vice versa. 
• You have no idea what's going on with your information. Even if you are extremely private. (Even this blog scares me a little.)
• It takes away from being human. Friend requests used to mean an actual physical interaction like shaking hands and having a conversation.
• I feel like I spend way too much time on it when I could be doing other things. 
• It has been proven to be a cause of divorce. Pathetic I know but if you can't understand where that comes from then you're lying. 

I'm sure there are more things I just don't feel like getting over aggravated about it.

My pros aren't even long enough for a list. It's simply that I can stay in touch with family and actual friends.

One thing that does intrigue me is the, what I like to call, Jack & Jill facebook page. The people who have one page for both of them. In my case my husband and I would have just one page together. At first I thought it was lame that they couldn't just have their own page. Then as I saw them more and more  I realized that it would suit what I use it for perfectly. I just want to be able to update family and friends and stay in touch. This way my husband could use it however he wanted to and I could just sign on to upload pictures and chat with family. Although I do email family which is the same thing really.

My question is, am I missing some big amazing aspect of facebook or is it really as lame as I believe it to be?

Baby Food

Ok all of you mommies out there. Daddies too of course. I've gotten a million different answers to this question and I want the general consensus.

When do you introduce foods other than formula to your baby? I know rice cereal should be first but now there is a study saying rice cereal is bad? Who really knows honestly. All I know is my daughter drinks a TON a day. She eats about 7 oz every 2 hours or so. It seems like she never stops eating.

Any advice or help would be wonderful :-)

URL update

Ok so here's the deal. It may have looked like I deleted my blog recently but I assure you I havent. I changed my url to foreveryourssemperfi . blogspot . com  I didn't realize this meant my blog would disappear, blonde moment on my part. So I am going to leave this post up for a little bit under this old url so that my followers have a chance to get my new url and still follow me. I will be switching my url back to foreveryourssemperfi.blogspot.com in a couple days.

I am trying to figure out how to export this blog so that I can import it under my new url but I'm not sure if it will work. I'll give that a shot though and let you know.

Bare with me.

URL Mixup

For the ladies who just started following me, my old url was usmclovergirl.blogspot.com. I changed it recently and lost all my followers. So I am going to temporarily change it back to that to put up a post to let them know the change. Bare with me please.

Song Link Up

Song link up with Goodnight Moon!

This song makes me smile because my husband and I have been through so much and it's true, our love won't run.

Abigail went swimming

Well more like floating.

Someone accidentally splashed her. But it made for a funny face.