DEPLOYMENT DAY: MILITARY WIVES LOOK BACK
If you're new to the military with an upcoming deployment, you may be wondering what it is you will be facing on deployment day. I know...
I'VE GOT ALL MY DUCKS IN A ROW...EXCEPT THE ONE IN CAMO
This isn't about kids...I don't have any. And this isn't a rag on my man, either. So now that we have what this isn't about out of the...
SAVE YOUR AMYGDALA: LEARN PYSANKY
Have a deployment coming up? In the middle of one? Or maybe you're just super stressed out like the other 96% of the world and need a...
HOW TO BE OKAY WITH NOT BEING OKAY
"You're just going to have to be okay with not being okay for a while." This is what a good friend pointed out to me about two weeks ago,...
SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF FLUFFY COTTON CANDY CLOUDS
I am learning more and more the importance of taking each day as it comes. This means not holding on too tightly to yesterday, and not...
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND INDEPENDENCE: ARE THEY REALLY DICHOTOMOUS?
I have some really, truly wonderful friends. And going through a major transition like a deployment is bound to show you how desperately...
PRE-DEPLOYMENT EMOTIONS: UPS AND DOWNS AND PALPABLE CHANGES
My husband and I have a journal we use to write each other notes in back and forth that we have had since somewhere around October, 2014....
TODAY'S WORRIES AND SUBSEQUENT LESSONS
Jeremiah 31:33-34, “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will put my law in...
BEING A MILITARY WIFE ON VETERAN'S DAY
So, remember in the introduction when I said I would be honest? I meant it. Sometimes even when it means sharing embarrassing stories and...
INTRODUCTION
Well, here I am. After making a blog sometime in high school and then hardly ever returning to it, and after firmly believing that...