My 5-year-old son’s best buddy is his dad. My husband is wonderful to this child who is the fifth of seven children. When my husband is home he plays board games with him, entertains him before dinner, takes him on outings, reads him stories etc . . . . . Sometimes it’s challenging when my …
Yesterday my husband texted me from deployment and told me their airplane had been struck by lightening. What?!!!! In seventeen years this has never happened to him! He reassured me that they were all okay and I moved on with my day, researched how common lightening strikes actually are, and eagerly awaited a good story …
Recently my husband left on a three month deployment. This circumstance is not unusual as he’s been in the Navy for 17 years and we’ve seen our share of deployments. What was unusual was that I didn’t cry when he left. Usually I feel really sad the day he leaves and a little bit depressed. …
Do you ever get the question “Where are you going to settle when you retire from the military?” For years people have asked me this question and I never knew what to tell them. How about “I have no idea?!” It seemed like there was something wrong with me since my husband and I had …
It was June of 2016, I was nine weeks pregnant and my family was currently stationed in Rhode Island. As a mother of five children I could tell something was different with this pregnancy. I usually did not get sick with pregnancy, however this time I was laying on the couch most of the day …
