Attempting to be a Super Mom

Thursday, January 12th Another day, that we were up very early. I don't think the bugle call woke us Thursday though. I think we were so exhausted that we slept right through it.  Thankfully our alarms on our phones woke us up. We got around slowly, and I probably drank twice the coffee that morning. We did make it down to breakfast and then out to Hilton Field still quite early. It looked so packed and we had to park much further away than we did the day before, but when we got up to the lines, they were much shorter, and in fact we jumped to a line on the other side and didn't end up waiting at all. Inside, the bleachers were a little fuller, making us move further up the bleachers than the day before, but we still had a great view, so I can't complain at all. We sat in the bleachers chit chatting and taking in every minute. We could see the soldiers on the far end of the field in a clearing through the trees.  They were hard to see but you could see them sp...

Wednesday, January 11th My sister and I set alarms to get up nice and early.  Turns out, there was no need.  The bugle calls right outside our window woke us up well before our alarms went off. We got up and watched all of the soldiers running through the parking lot and up and down the street. We got dressed and mom came down to our room where we sipped some coffee before heading down to breakfast. We ate a nice quick breakfast before heading down to the field where family day was going to be held. We got to Hilton Field nice and early, but the line out front was incredible. We parked and walked up to stand in line. It turned out that the line wasn't as bad as it had seemed and we were through pretty quickly and even got really great seats. As we sat there, the music blared from the stereo system. It was all sad, sentimental, music about soldiers and the Army.  Lots of stuff that made us cry. We could see so many people in the tree line. Right on time,...