Rachel Barragan:  

Hello and how are you?! I'm a happily married mother of 4 children and 5 grand-children; all girls! My oldest daughter Elizabeth, lives in Indiana w her 7 yr old daughter, my second oldest daughter Stephanie is deaf & lives in a nearby city w her deaf fiance and 3 hearing daughters. My older son Isaac, lives here in my hometown w his girlfriend and 4 year old daughter. And my youngest son Michael is almost 21 yrs old, single, presently w/o children. He enlisted in the US ARMY last year with his MOS in Communications, is a Certified Paratrouper and stationed in Iraq. It's only been almost a couple of months since my "baby" was deployed in Iraq, and I've been doing my best to "be brave" for Michael; encouraging n uplifting whenever I "talk" to him, which is limited. We've only been able to communicate thru MySpace or Facebook as of late. He would call/text me on occasion prior his deployment. Alas, I've been currently going thru that "empty-nest" syndrome, as my 4rth & youngest child left my home last year in November. Sigh! Always being so much involved in all of my children's lives...now, I'm learning how to deal with living "my own life" together with my "new" husband alone for the first time...Expand for more