by Jessica Scott | Apr 5, 2011 | army mom, books, empowering parents, military mom, mommy fail, Uncategorized, working mom
I think I get a cool mom prize today. Not for building my kids a swing set or actually making them homemade cookies. No, today I saved a book. Today started like any other day. I got the girls up at 5 am. Got them out the door by 540 and off to daycare. As we’re...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 27, 2011 | army mom, empowering parents, mommy fail, Uncategorized, women at war, working mom
So my kids have listening issues. Kind of like the vikings from How to Train Your Dragon on with less self sufficiency. My own yelling at them in return for this misbehavior has created, yeah, you guessed it, more yelling. And a whole lot less discipline than I’d...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 14, 2011 | army mom, books, mommy fail, Uncategorized, working mom, Writing
Those who know me know I have a hard time sitting still. I’ve always got something going on, something that prevents me from sitting down on the couch and veging out. Which is odd because if you knew me as a teenager, you’d have said the exact opposite. But this last...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 7, 2011 | army mom, deployment, military mom, mommy fail, moms at war, Uncategorized, working mom
The weekend started for me at 0200 Saturday morning as I hopped in a vehicle and headed to the Tuscon Airport for my flight back to Fort Hood. After landing in Dallas, I get a phone call from my mom, who’d been watching the girls for me while I had my TDY trip....
by Jessica Scott | Feb 26, 2011 | army mom, deployment, empowering parents, Iraq, military mom, Uncategorized, working mom
Okay so the next time I raise my hand and say, I think I’ll build my kids a swingset, someone slap me. Everything hurts. When I say everything, I mean from the top of my head where I hit it multiple times today to the top of my feet where I dropped a power tool...
by Jessica Scott | Feb 21, 2011 | army mom, deployment, Iraq, Uncategorized
Deployment Rituals I’m discovering that I have certain deployment rituals, things that give me a sense of comfort in the world that now has a husband sized hole in it. This is the first deployment that he’s been gone that I haven’t been pregnant or with him, so the...