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One of the most valuable tools we can teach as parents is how to help children manage scary thoughts. As a child I was terrified of fire. Just ask my parents! My mom said at about 18-months-old she put me in a play pen in front of our fire place (that had the doors closed) …
What a crazy past few months it’s been! I purposefully gave myself some compassion during these months of cancelled school, COVID-19, and my husband’s deployment. I packed up for about a month and headed to my home state of Montana to spend time with my parents and wait for time to pass. About a month …
I realized the other day that being a military spouse of 18 years has prepared me to know how to deal with being quarantined in the house with my seven kids. Now I get to do both deployment and quarantine! Sweet! Part of military life is never knowing what is going to happen. You wait …
My mom says that my children, when they are toddlers, are more challenging than others. I have no idea since I’m not raising anyone else’s children, however, I’ve taken to telling myself “This too shall pass” as I am now raising two three-year-olds, plus 3 teenagers and two elementary age children. The older 5 are …
A couple of days ago I went to the store to get ingredients for birthday cakes for two of my children. I was astounded to see that cake mixes, frosting, donuts, and candy had been ransacked during this initial feeling of panic about COVID-19. I was a little worried. Maybe people are making sure they …
Last summer I posted a little bit about my husband being deployed. I thought I had deployments down back then! I was totally wrong! It looks like I needed a little bit more growth in the deployment area because my husband deployed again right before this virus started going crazy in the US. So here …
This week I had one of the strangest experiences of my life. This particular day I had a phone call scheduled with a friend at 6:45 pm. This phone call was pretty important and I did not want to miss it. Unfortunately due to the chaos associated with COVID-19 I was still at the store …
The past two months have been a whirlwind!!! Within a period of two months we decided to move and then moved. It was a little crazy! If there is one thing military spouses know how to do, it’s move. I’m happy to say that I’m settled in my house with pictures on my walls one …
Here are a few real circumstances that have a occurred to me, friends, or relatives that have brought to the surface many thoughts and emotions that have been difficult to overcome: I have a client who was yelled at and sent angry texts by a neighbor because the neighbor thought my friend had invaded their …
