Mil Spouse Weekly Roundup #28! If you’re a mil spouse, go link up one of your posts from this week with Lydia at With Love Lydia. Have a great weekend! Read more…
Stay Here a Little While
I’m not a big fan of country music, but every now and then, when I’m flipping through the presets in my car, I stop at the country station Mr. Roller Coaster programmed just to annoy me. And every now and then I stumble upon a country song that I like. I heard this one the other day […] Read more…
Project Gratitude Day 75
PROJECT GRATITUDE DAY 75: I am thankful for my family, my friends, my home, my health, and all the other essential things in my life that I tend to take for granted. I’ve been avoiding writing about the devastation in Japan. There’s just too much to say and not enough words to express how heartbroken I […] Read more…
Top 10 List of the Upsides of Deployment
Back in July, I wrote a post for Blue Star Families called “The Upside of Deployment.” I wrote it toward the end of Mr. Roller Coaster’s deployment, at a time when I had gotten comfortable with my solitary existence. There’s no way I could have written that piece at the beginning of the deployment. Because […] Read more…
On a Trip
Whenever my husband travels, we tell our kids that he’s going “on a trip.” We don’t use acronyms, and we don’t typically use any variation of the word deploy. “On a trip” just sounds so much more innocuous, both to the kids’ ears and my own. Last week, Mr. Roller Coaster went “on a trip.” […] Read more…
Project Gratitude Day 72
PROJECT GRATITUDE DAY 72: I am thankful that Little C’s eyes are no longer oozing grossness. That poor girl freaked out every time she woke up the last 2 nights with her eyes crusted shut. Fingers crossed for a mucus-free Monday! Read more…

