Recipe for a Navy Wife

1 ½ cup of Patience
1 cup of Courage
1 ¼ cups of Tolerance
Dash of Adventure
1 pound of Ability

With above Ingredients, add 2 Tbsp. of Elbow Grease.
Let set alone for 6 months. Marinate frequently with Salty Tears.
Pour off Excess Fat
Sprinkle ever so lightly with money.
Knead dough till payday.
Season with International spices.

Bake 20 years until done. Serve with Pride.

So I have this recipe hanging on a beautiful cutting board on my wall in my kitchen. Hubby bought it for me last year at this time. Ya know he was finally ACTIVE duty and we had access on the base to a beautiful craft shop. Ok so lets look at this recipe. Lets pull it apart for so understanding here: 1 ½ cup of Patience (NEVER had any of this). 1 cup of Courage ( um well I SOMETIMES have this…ONLY when necessary though). 1 ¼ cups of Tolerance (oh yeah this would be another one of those attributes I have lacked forever). Dash of Adventure (well I do have this ingredient…I so love to travel and see things and oh yeah spend money LOL). 1 pound of Ability (apparently I have proven to myself in the past month that I have ability but didn’t know it before he deployed). 2 Tbsp. of Elbow Grease (as a mom I have MORE than 2 TBSP…LOL). Let set alone for 6 months. Marinate frequently with Salty Tears (currently living this one). Pour off Excess Fat (weight watchers is helping out with this one LOL). Sprinkle ever so lightly with money…Knead dough till payday (yep LIGHTLY…did ya see that one…LIGHTLY with money…NEVER enough). Season with International spices (well maybe when he gets home…I mean he is in ANOTHER country…whoo hooo counting down the days till I can add those SPICES LOL). Bake 20 years until done (well we are over 14 years so we are on the way to completing this step). Serve with Pride (well hopefully Shayne is proud of me when he gets home and sees that I DID IT).

I’m not sure I am a TRADITIONAL Navy Wife but ya know what, I don’t care, all I want to be is myself. I want my husband to worship the ground I walk on, and spend TONS of money on me, and be proud of everything I do. Those things with him by my side would be the things that make up my RECIEPE for a Navy Wife. Guess NOT everyone knows how to make changes to recipes to have them work with their lives but we are working on it. I hope everyone looks at what society demands of us as WOMEN, WIVES, MOTHERS, and LEADERS and knows that we are all doing the BEST we can do, even if its NOT what the RECIPE called for originally. Good luck finding your recipe to life.