Sweenie

You know how couples can make up annoying lovey nicknames for each other? Well, Anthony is my Sweenie. Like Todd, but spelled differently and without the long-handled razors.

Word origin for Sweenie begins in the English, "sweetie" and was changed in 2010 by the addition of an Eric Cartman pronunciation.

Today Sweenie and I embark on another Army adventure: the transition to his new (Cav?!?) unit. After 14 long months of TRADOC and a few weeks (ok, a million weeks) of paycation, it is time to get to work. We don't know what working active duty outside of TRADOC feels like, nor do we have a good idea of what an infantry officer will do in a cavalry unit, although we are curious about the stetsons and spurs.

(After-note: Anthony actually ended up being put into an infantry batallion, where he is loving his job as a platoon leader. No spurs after all, which is ok, because we don't own any Black Beauties.)

What we do know is that God called us to reach out to the Army (yes, the whole thing) with His love. It's a new kind of infiltration.

Sweenie to me will be someone else's light in a dark place.