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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 …
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 …
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 …
It’s been a great week! My husband came back from deployment a few days ago! Deployment homecomings are so fun that it’s almost nice that he leaves so that he can come home, almost . . . While I was cleaning my house a few days before he came home I made an interesting decision …
I thought this quote from one of my favorite plays, Les Mis, was appropriate for my post today. The song kept going through my head and I thought how applicable the lyrics are to life. Consider this line: One day more. Tomorrow you’ll be worlds awayAnd yet with you, my world has started! One more …
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 …
