As some of you may know, I’m a contributing writer for Blue Star Families. It’s been awhile since my last BSF post, but I’m back and ready for comments! Check it out: Living Every Day Like He Deploys Tomorrow. Read more…
Top 10 List of My Deployment Behaviors
If you’re anything like me, your life completely changes when your husband is deployed. You follow your own routines, and you develop your own coping mechanisms to try to keep your love alive while simultaneously trying to keep your heart from breaking. We have to do whatever we can to make our lives a little bit easier […] Read more…
Calling All Mil Spouses…What Does Military Life Mean to You?
The other day I was thinking about how funny it is that I rarely think about my life as a military spouse when my husband is around. But when he’s gone, it seems to be all I can think about. Then I started thinking about military life in general. How is it different than civilian […] Read more…
Top 10 Ways to Stay Connected With Your Spouse During Deployments
A couple weeks ago I went to the library and checked out a handful of books written for and/or by military spouses. I didn’t get a chance to read all of the books before their due date, but there was one book in my pile that I read in one sitting. “I’m Already Home…Again” […] 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 65
PROJECT GRATITUDE DAY 65: I am thankful for bloggy awards! I am such a slacker when it comes to accepting awards and passing them along. And I feel guilty about that because I’m so appreciative of them. My latest award is from Beckie over at a Turn for the Nurse. It’s the Most Valuable Mil Spouse Award! I was […] Read more…
