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Military Ball? Check!
All in all, I am glad to be able to say that I have been to a military ball. It was one of those military wife "rites of passage" that I wanted to…
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Deployment Countdown Calendar Idea
“You look at that calendar, all those empty days, and wish for a way to make them go by faster. You miss your spouse more than anything, and feel so disconnected from him,…
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Doubts and Reassurances
Now that I’m no longer on vacation I’m realizing it’s a bit harder to stay off of Facebook. I’m feeling the urges and desires creeping back…the doubts that maybe this won’t work for…
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Deactivate…ACTIVATE!
We are coming to the end of March. At the beginning of March, I set the goal for myself to “Make March Matter!” March has been difficult, full of many tears, but the…
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The Rest of Our Lives: Musings on Reintegration After Deployment
He’s been home almost three months now. Time always drags when they are gone and flies when they are home! Deployment uniforms have all been tucked away, ACUs are the standard again. Reintegration…
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Make March Matter
I didn’t want to blog about this. But my husband encouraged it, so blog I will. A few days into March, I took my magnetic wipeoff board that hangs on the freezer and…
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Radiant: Silencing the Inner Voices and Believing I’m Enough
I texted a friend of mine a few pictures of my ball gown. There was a photograph which I didn’t like because I felt that it accentuated some parts of my figure that…
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Life Is Beautiful
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Mary Anne Radmacher January and February have been very full months for our family. Full of…
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Answers
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. Author Unknown The Back Story For as long as I can remember, I have been plagued with many…
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After All
My husband came home from Afghanistan on New Years Eve! This deployment lasted 353 days apart total, lasting from December 29, 2010 to December 31, 2011. It was one long year! My husband’s…