Tuna Girl

In a month my daughter will turn 13-years-old.  (She was four-years-old when I started this blog.  That is seriously nuts.) In some ways she has been acting like a typical 13-year-old since s...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2012/06/and-pop-culture-comes-in-for-win.html

I think that parenting is about 90% suck and about 10% overwhelming pride and joy.  Somehow the 10% manages to make the 90% all worth while. We have a lot of suck around here.  We do.  Absol...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2012/05/10.html

So I was doing the math. My husband has been gone for almost 18 months now. Yes, he was home for two and a half months last Spring, and he was home for two weeks at Christmas. But we've pretty m...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2012/03/checking-in-checking-out.html

One of the ways I've been dealing with my husband returning to the Middle East after his R&R vacation is by watching a lot of movies. I've been watching movies that he probably wouldn't enjoy wa...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-husband-will-love-this.html

As of today, I am the mother of a twelve-year-old and a ten-year-old. That's insane. That's an entire decade of parenting two kids and I haven't gotten any better at it in the last ten years. ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuna-boys-first-awesome-decade.html

Tonight we blew off two local parades (I even had tickets for seating at one of them) to go see Jack and Jill at the movies instead. Why? I don't know. I just didn't feel like being outside an...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/adam-sandler-can-suck-it.html

Lately I find myself feeling kind of jealous of other parents. Okay, that's kind of a lie. In truth, I go through phases of feeling superior to other parents (patting myself on the back for the ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-failing-and-jealosy.html

So, let's talk a little bit about my parents. I have gotten to an age when many of my contemporaries are losing their parents. I hear them and see them mourning their parent and I can see how li...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/parents.html

Things have been a little craptastic here on the parenting front lately. My choice today was either to fold myself into a ball of despair and cry quietly on the side of the highway (raising 12-ye...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/11/stealing-show.html

I love my daughter to death. I mean, seriously, sometimes I want to kill that kid I love her so much. I really worry about her making her way in the world and so I am hard on her. Probably too h...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/neatly-summed-up-in-one-example.html

I pretty much have two separate sets of friends on Facebook. There are my "blog friends", which I think of as my Tuna Girl friends (who know who Rose Johnson is) and my real life friends and fami...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/facetime-from-front.html

My junior year in college was a big year for me. It was the year my husband asked me to marry him. It was also the year I led my college softball team to our first ever championship title. I say...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/bundle-of-dichotomy.html

My husband sent me this picture he found on the Internet... ...just to make me smile. I think he knows me quite well. Update: The rest of the photo essay can be seen here .

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/thinking-of-me.html

On the day my husband received his wings (I think it was 13 years ago) the guys in his class decided to honor their wives by giving each one roses as part of the winging ceremony. I was one of t...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/just-peck.html

My husband and I have the kind of relationship where we can joke about divorce. We've been through so much and come so far that the thought of getting a divorce is actually laughable. So he'll s...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/as-long-as-he-doesnt-come-home-with-tat.html

One of the many of thousands of reasons I miss my husband when he is deployed is his ability to tie a tie. This is especially true since my son has to wear ties to school sometimes. In the past...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/reason-number-498.html

The other night I was Skyping with my husband while he was getting ready for work. As he pulled his flight suit on I told him, "I should record this and post it on YouTube." "Ha," was his reply....

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/just-missed-his-fifteen-minutes.html

I love how tall Anthony Edwards looks next to Tom Cruise. And Slider still does it for me, even after all these years. This is classic. My husband has enjoyed teasing me about the last video I ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/speaking-of.html

We are seven weeks into this 52 week deployment. And I have been reduced to watching the volleyball scene from Top Gun over and over. How am I going to make it another 45 weeks? I haven't felt ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/counting-days.html

Last winter my friend told me her middle-school-aged son had a girlfriend. And I judged her. Never mind that the topic only came up because my own daughter wanted to ask her son to dance at coti...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-love.html

So, I was going to write about my grandmother's funeral, but instead, let's all just watch some hot boys. I totally stole this from Tonka . Oh, and just ignore what I was saying about middle age...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/07/and-i-worried-about-my-man-over-there.html

I think my husband thinks I'm just stroking his ego when I tell him that I love his gray hair. But I'm not. I think it is so hot. I especially love the gray in his beard. You know, it's funny.....

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/07/mid-life-turns-me-on.html

Last Wednesday, my husband left for a year-long deployment to Qatar. I had just started getting used to having him around again after his last deployment, and now he's gone again. But we're doi...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/06/on-saying-goodbye.html

Being an eleven-year-old girl has got to be the fucking hardest thing in the entire world. Being my eleven-year-old daughter can't make it any easier. I'm a hard ass with high expectations. Not ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/turn-around.html

So, I wrote this very long post about homecomings. I went on and on about my very strong feelings on the reunion part of a deployment and the media's portrayal of such. I got way too personal to ...

http://tunagirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/audience-of-one.html