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		<title>It&#8217;s been a rough week&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2012/01/24/its-been-a-rough-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, I have a good attitude when I&#8217;m underway. I&#8217;m in the Navy, and this is my job. I don&#8217;t particularly mind being underway, it just sucks to be away from my family and loved ones. Actually being underway is fine for the most part-some drama on occasion, but that&#8217;s to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1153&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Logan!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My littlest guy was born exactly one year ago today. It was a different scenario for me, because he was the first of my biological children that I was not there for the birth. (NOTE: For those who don&#8217;t know, I adopted my oldest son, Devin, shortly before his second birthday&#8230;he will never have known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1140&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destroyer Life at Sea, Part III-Replenishments</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/26/destroyer-life-at-sea-pt-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series where I&#8217;m explaining some of the things that happen on a Destroyer while underway. You can read Part I here and Part II here. You may be looking at the picture and going &#8220;wow, that&#8217;s a big wave&#8221;, and to that, I say yes, it was a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logan walked!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It sucks that I missed it, but we knew that was going to happen (unless he didn&#8217;t walk until he was about 16 months old), but I&#8217;m excited to tell everyone that Logan took his first steps today! Logan is just over 11 months old. I know Justyce was about 14 months old when she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1114&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post, to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I am working on plenty of new posts on here (just trying to get them finalized). Anyway, where I&#8217;m at, it&#8217;s now Christmas morning (0146am-but, we go back another hour in 15 minutes as we transit through another time zone). So, what do we get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things that make you go &#8220;awwwww&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/22/things-that-make-you-go-awwww/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll write more about it, but I honestly think that I have the easier job when it comes to deployment-I&#8217;m gone and working. That&#8217;s it. And, every once in a while, I get to stop in some foreign port. Mary and the kids have it far more difficult. But, again, more on that later. Deployments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1083&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I missed my own birthday</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/21/how-i-missed-my-own-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, don&#8217;t take that literally; obviously, no matter where I am, I can&#8217;t miss my own birthday. You&#8217;re with me on that, right? However, having said that&#8230;when you&#8217;re gone, it&#8217;s just not the same. If you&#8217;re not with ones you love, if nothing about your day changes whatsoever, you may as well have missed it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=989&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Stands Still</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/21/time-stands-still/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a blog a few years ago, back when I was on something they called &#8220;Myspace&#8221; (no, I don&#8217;t remember exactly what that was either, little Timmy) about how detached I am from my life on deployment. I wish I had a copy of that, because I think it was likely one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tough Decision</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/20/a-tough-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it wasn&#8217;t a decision that I had to make&#8230;it was one that my daughters made (tough for one of them in particular). Last deployment was brutal&#8230;Not only were things not going well on the ship, and I was out here while my beautiful wifey was pregnant and then gave birth to my awesome little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=994&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts: Aging</title>
		<link>http://stayanchoredinhope.com/2011/12/20/random-thoughts-aging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to get this out there right away: I&#8217;m two days away from turning 36 years old. I remember a time when that felt so old that I couldn&#8217;t even fathom it. Hell, I remember my own father turning 35, some 23 years ago. I remember that because he joked that now he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stayanchoredinhope.com&amp;blog=8572643&amp;post=991&amp;subd=my60milejourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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