Pre Iraq- I feel like I am dating time such as "pre-historic". We could be talking about the dinosaur age! Prior to being deployed to Iraq our family life was what you might call picture perfect. We had 5 children ranging in age from 13 to 3. I was as happy has someone can be. I was loving life. We lived in a beautiful home- I was busy fixing it up. It was an older 60's home in need of some TLC. I had painted nearly every room, put in new carpet, tiled the kitchen by removing kitchen carpet and just loved cooking and taking care of my family. The kids played sports like softball and we ice skated in the winter and built snowmen and such. We lived in a very rural community of about 150 people. We had a little bit of land and room to run. Besides work and church there was the Idaho Army National Guard Reserves. Mac was an E7 and the acting Platoon Sergeant. He was attending college online and finishing his bachelors degree. It just didn't get better than that! Happy kids, happy home and a great life!
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