There are so many military families in our community, I almost feel like the oddball sometimes.  The core group of us who are volunteering for the Reindeer Shop are all military except me.  At church, all the men our age are military.  Sometimes BJay talks about joining the military just to fit in.  Its come up more than once.  I usually dismiss the idea by reminding BJay that I didn’t sign up for single-parenthood.  Well last night on the way home from shopping in Fayetteville BJay mentioned AGAIN something about joining the military and I finally asked him if he was serious.  He said that he was, kind of.  ???  So I opened up for discussion with the kids.  “Who wants Daddy to be in the Army?”  Hila piped up in the back seat, “I do! My friend Jacqualine’s dad is in the army!”  I then asked, “Hila why do you want Daddy to be in the army?”

“Because they help children.”

BJay then asked Hila how she knew that men in the army helped children and she said,

“Remember when we went to the movies and that movie came on about the army?”

This movie:

*BJay is not joining the military btw.