I know there are times that go farther between posting than I’d like.  It’s not for lack of ideas, it’s because I try to be smart and think before posting.  I refuse to be like so many other sites and post info that in my opinion violates privacy laws.  I try hard about that and it’s not easy for me as I’m such an open book.

Tonight and day, hubby has been busy.  He’s been helping my Dad build a fence, finished up two big projects here at the house and had a busy set.  It was rough to send him and rough for him to go to work today because he’s been so busy.  TOO BUSY!  We run off to friends when he gets off work and then he’s said he’ll start another side of our fence the next day when we get back from the lake.  NO, I don’t think he will  I’m pretty sure we need to go have a fun day of play with the youngest.

Anyway, the blog title.  Do you post TMI on your blog?  Do you think before you post?  It’s a rough line.

For one thing I don’t want to embarrass my family.  To many people know who we are because of FB.  The internet is not as anonymous as it was when I first started building sites when the dinosaurs were around.

Secondly, I don’t want to have hubby lose his job or be reprimanded.  Quite a few from his work follow my FB account and updates from this blog go to that account.  While I don’t have a worry about corporate for anything I say, I am aware of how things could affect his work.  Yes, I hate that and it can stifle talk.  However, I’m thankful that I’ve always been a horrible liar and any opinions that do come out of my mouth are backed up by some facts and I will own them as my opinions.  Feel free to send me more facts so I can change my opinion by facts presented.  From years of my Dad being in government, my holding positions on boards and now hubbies job, yes I do know things I’m not supposed to.  After 16 years I’m aware of this and I don’t post and I don’t talk about many, many things.  It’s a rough line for me at times to know what may be public knowledge so I just ignore it until later. lol

Right now, hubby has had a super busy day.  How do I know this?  I thankfully got to see him. I passed him driving the engine (HOT!) and then did a turn around so I could drop stuff off at the station for him.  But since then I haven’t heard anything.  It’s always a wonder if it’s that busy or if his phone ran out of juice. lol  I haven’t been home so I’m not sure if sirens have been rocking or not.  Then we’ve had movies up loud so we can’t hear outside noise as much either.

But it’s almost midnight and we’ll be going to the lake with friends for a few days.  Man I’m excited to see him for more than a few minutes.

I have been doing a lot of researching in the last couple of weeks. A lot of visiting firefighter blogs, finding firefighter wife blogs and looking for all resources for the firefighter.

This recently brought me to the firecritic.com site and I found a lot of leads to follow from there. I also found posts to comment on which I love even more

As I went through my stats on Sunday morning (almost said Sat night cause hadn’t gone to bed yet) I kept seeing the same link to firecritic.com so I clicked to see what was up. The site spotlighted me for their Monday Shoutout. Very cool and of course it makes me feel great to have my blog recognized. This blog is more personal than many of my other sites and blogs because of it’s nature and why it was created. So to ever have others read it is wonderful to my ego. Let alone to have it featured in a post.

Thanks firecritic.com, I’ll look forward to more of your posts.

It’s 6:30pm here on the west coast and Mother’s Day is coming to an end.  It’s been a decent one even if he has worked it.  I love my kids.  They’ve cleaned a little and the other one will clean tomorrow, I can’t get her up from a nap. lol  She was at a slumber party last night and is uber tired.

I’m not sure why it didn’t dawn on me until I’d picked up my take-and-bake pizza’s that we should have set up a special BBQ for us B shift Mom’s.  WTH?  All of us just met for how many of the boys bdays this week?  Yet we didn’t think of putting together our own event while they are at work? Weird and telling.

This is the last holiday they work that I don’t work to plan something.  Yes, I have loved my day today.  Low key, watching movies and blogging.  I had serious catching up to do.  But I look to how much fun we girls and the kids could have had while the boys worked.  K, I look to how the guys would have worried about what all of us girls were doing while they worked. lmao  We all talk a lot daily, we facebook and we run off to little things here and there together.  But it’s about time we start planning our holidays together when we know they won’t be there.  I think the 4th is the next one.  Oh wait, I know they work memorial day is one  for sure   Off to send messages off about that now!

When you are having fun they just fly by don’t they?  The holiday season must be in full swing.  But this 4 day was so needed.  We spent a lot of time with friends and our family.  There was dinner at a friends house to watch football on Thursday night, then Friday night a friend had a party to thank those that helped with their remodeling.  We haven’t all gotten together like that in many months so it was just awesome.  Especially to add in a few of the new guys/wives that just got hired or just got off probation.  Then Friday night was a retirement party for one of my clients Dad’s actually.  lol  See it’s a damn small world   She and I didn’t know a thing about each other when she first hired me to train her.  Then our lives just showed a huge intersecting.

Anyway, the retirement party went really well.  He’s been in fire service since 1962 and it was very rural out here for many years.  They roasted the hell out of him.  lol  Good times!  Sunday we spent up on the slopes just the 4 of us.  It snowed like crazy half the day and it wasn’t supposed to.  So it was AWESOME!

Today hubby started his set and it’s trying to have record cold.  I’m hoping all their calls are inside if they get any at all.

I’m posting all of this happiness because I need to pull the happy moments of the last week to the front of my mind.  Tomorrow is the memorial for the murdered Lakewood Police Officers.  Unless hubby has something else planned, I won’t be able to not watch.  I’ve had a headache for the last few hours from watching them get ready for this huge event.  I just ache with the tears I already know will be spilled tomorrow.

Anyway, I will post again tomorrow I’m sure.  But I wanted to get this happy post of the last few days in here first.  I want to remember what I do live for before I’m reminded how dangerous all of their jobs are.

So I’m a little cranky at my husband today, he just doesn’t think to help me with my blogging. lol He was on youtube last night searching around and finding fire videos of course and found quite a few cool one’s. But he didn’t bookmark them! I told him he has to from now on so I can share them every once and a while on here.

But I got this one from a friend on facebook and it’s a total must share. Enjoy the laugh!

For those of you readers that know, I’ve posted about a really bad recent Ped’s Call and then again how I was ready to kick some serious ass if people didn’t stop asking him about it. Sorry, I know I work hard at keeping my language down on here (which is work for me) so I can stay more family friendly. But this call has been horrid.

Last night while laying in bed, hubby blurts out “so that kid didn’t die afterall”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t let me know what he is talking about. Our district is busy and sadly we have a lot of kids calls because it is so busy. But I am a girl so I immediatetly assumed it was this call. I said, “Oh you mean the call that everyone seems to need to hear about over and over again?” See I haven’t talked to him about how pissed I got at everyone, but that let him know. lol 19 years of being together we can communicate sometimes like that.

Anyway, he had been told the baby had died after falling out of the window. It is sadly not the first time he’s held a kid he thought was gone and still worked hard at getting them to the hospital. But another shift went on a call to their house for the baby. Of course, with any brain injury there is the worry of seizure and that was why they were called out. I’m so thankful that they told hubby they went on the call. It means someone is looking out for him.

So long story shorter. I’m happy to report that the baby did not die and is doing awesome with no brain issues and very little delay. VERY little delay. Having our friends kid be handicapped I of course asked about that as well. lol I’m happy to report that my hubby and his partner saved a baby that day.

No, I’m not talking about my honey. But he is as well. lol

Our weather this Summer has been outrageously off. So much hot weather. More days of sun in two months than we usually have all year here in the Seattle area I think. ROFLMAO But it is pretty difficult for the boys to work. Hubby went on a housefire all last night and was miserable. When I talked to him at 4pm he had gone through 3 tshirts already. He sweats a lot anyway, but all these days in a row of upper 80’s and 100 today and tomorrow are a lot.

But I promised a happy post today to balance it out some. I’m excited that we have friends at the lake that are off shift with us. The kids are gone for the night and we’re packing up to go play in the water. So cheers to friends that are willing to pay the high tax dollars and live on the lack!

In my last post I talked about how I hoped we’d all be getting together more often. Thankfully it has. Of course, my waistline is under some serious damage from all the BBQ’s, but the laughs are totally worth it!

We’ve gotten together and had no big issues, which you know can happen in any family. lol But now we’ll be doing it a lot more since our good buddy just broke up with his girlfriend. Hubby texted me our buddy was coming to dinner because “he’s sad”. awww, poor guy. So we’ll swarm around the wounded even though every one of us wants to tell him “we told you so!”

We’re only half way through the Summer. Our next big party is our daughter’s bday next week. We’ve invited half our shift and told them no presents. lol They won’t listen, so we’ll just have to have a big party for the youngest in Feb as well. Not fair how much loot she’s going to come away with from this.

Happy Father’s Day to all the Fire Dads out there. Hubby is home and we are ready to spoil him. As soon as he decides what he wants to do. Right now we are just watching tv and if that is what he wants to do then that’s cool. That’s how I spent Mother’s Day. lol

Well he just decided he wants to stay home. We just remembered we have lobster tails in the fridge we can eat for dinner. We may go play put-put golf, guess we’ll just have to see. He’s going jogging and to the gym and we’ll see after that how the day goes. Good grief, like pulling teeth to get him to choose what he wants to do and eat today.

Just a big wish for a wonderful Mother’s Day to all my fellow Firefighter Wives out there. I hope he didn’t have to work today and is helping the kids spoil you rotten.

I bought myself some killer Tbones for the grill and lobster tails. Also a wonderful bottle of wine. I’m set for some serious grillin’!