I live in a pretty big neighborhood with A LOT of children and not all of those children stay off the street. Well the drivers in my neighborhood fly up and down our street all day long. We live on base so the traffic is usually right on schedule, after p.t. rush about 7:30-9am then lunch rush about 11:30am-1pm then when everyone starts to get off work about 4-7pm. Most of these drivers won’t slow down for anything, I watch the kids play outside, all ages 2-15, (I know my neighbors,lol), there are construction workers up and down my road (they are building some new building at the end of my road and fixing all the pot holes). Its horrible, atleast twice a week someone almost gets hurt. I do understand this is partly the parents fault for not being more strict on their kids to stay out of the road but no matter whos fault it is, it needs to be stopped. So I posted an ad on bookoo (yardsale site for close areas, also has forums and stuff(alot like craigslist)) asking drivers to please slow down, think about the children, the families of the construction workers. I had 243 people read that, and I didnt see a difference at all. So I called our housing office, didnt help. So I called the police and asked if there was anything they could do. Well they were very happy that I called and were all about making our neighborhoods safer. He said we will start off with a speed radar trailor (which I told him he could put in my yard, and he did) and if that doesnt help he would just put officers all over our neighborhood. I have noticed a very big difference in how fast people are going. The best part, when people drive slow they tend to look around more. Therefore being more aware of whats going on. If you have the same problem, do something about it before something bad happens.
22 Jul
My life as an Army Wife
Well we have been married almost 3 years, but some people only count the time he’s actually home, so that would only be 13-14 months. Its definetly hard especially since we have kids. Its one thing when I miss him but it makes it harder when my oldest just sits at the front door saying Dada over and over again. I do love my husband and he loves the Army. The downfalls to being an Army wife are few, but they are big, like “will he return from this deployment”, “how long will he be gone at this training or that” but when I fell in love, I fell hard so I’m along for the ride. When he’s home from his deployments, I try not to think of everything he missed out on or the next deployment coming. We try to do as much together as we can while we have time. We drive back home (where we are both from) and give our kids to my parents, and have some time to be together. Weighing out the good and the bad, it’s definetly worth it all.
