Just Another Day in Paradise

I just remembered something that I didn't mention in my past blogs. For the time being, I have my mother here in Iraq with me. She is here helping out and visiting while Kenny is here.
It has truly been WONDERFUL having her here. It's like having a piece of home here with me. It's nice to be able to just walk to the office next door and see her sitting there. I know that it is so selfish, but I would like to just keep her here for as long as I am here.
She is somehow able to cook up some of the best meals with the limited resources that we have here as far as food goes. She is my best friend, and my mother, and it has been a blessing having her here with me. I will be very very sad to see her go home.
I think that it will be harder to watch her leave here and go home than it is for me when I leave home to come here. Perhaps it is because now I have been spoiled, and I know what it is like to have her here now, and usually, I know what I am coming back too when I leave home to come here. It just won't be the same without my mama here with me.
She has been a huge huge help to me, and she has never once complained a single time about anything. She would be great working a job like this over here. She is a tough enough woman that this type of place doesn't bother her, and she is simple enough that she doesn't miss the "Luxuries" of home.
Simply put: I will miss my Mama when she is gone home, and I love her very much.
On another note, things around here are OK, although yesterday, there was a large bomb outside the Taji gates. If you look online, I am sure that you can read all about it. There was a bomb on a chemical truck, and they blew it up right outside of the walls. Several people died from the exposure, and many many more are very sick. It was a chlorine truck, and from what I understand, inhalation will blister the lungs. I will remember to keep the people in my prayers that were unlucky enough to be too close. It is really terrible that these people have to worry about things such as this right outside their front yards.
AMERICANS, be GRATEFUL for what we have at home....The security, the liberty, the freedoms. Do not take it for granted......but do not get lazy and let it all be taken away......don't even let me get off on this subject, I could go all night.
Anyway, I hope that everyone reading this....if anyone IS reading this...is doing well, and if you don't mind, go and have an ice cold beer for me right now. Tell me all about how good it was!!