Military and Veteran Life
My husband served in the US Army from May of 2007 to May of 2013. During that time he endured two year-long combat deployments to Afghanistan, while I stayed behind to "keep the home fires burning." We were stationed in Fort Hood, Texas and Fort Knox, Kentucky during his military career. These posts share some of the things that we experienced as a military family.
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Losin’ it!
I am not doing nearly as well as I had expected or hoped to during this deployment. I feel like I am losing my sanity. Last night I washed a load of clothes,…
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Sweet Silver Lining
I know I haven’t blogged much recently…I haven’t felt much like it. If you have been keeping up with my Facebook posts, you know that the past two months have been difficult on…
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April Showers
Let me be honest, I have had a pretty difficult month…well, two months actually. It began with Ezra not sleeping…for about six weeks straight he woke every two hours or sometimes even less…
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Reasons I enjoy deployment
A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog post for my friend Kathryn about deployment. One of the things that I encouraged her to do in that post was to “enjoy the…
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Mac Drives, Movies, Mayonnaise, Milk, McDonalds, and Mondays
I ran out of milk sometime last week. Well, actually, I didn’t run out…it expired, and I didn’t have any left to replace it. Thus begins the madness that is also known as…
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One month down
Baby, How’s our little baby boy? Does he know his daddy’s halfway ’round the world? Tell him he is my heart
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Songs for Military Members and Military Wives
This is a list of songs that I listened to over and over while my husband was deployed and came to be pretty special to me. Music is great therapy when you are…
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Deployment and pregnancy (a lot in common)
I laid in bed the other night struggling to find a comfortable position in which to sleep. Amongst all of the tossing and turning I was struck with the realization that “I’ve done…
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One More Day
A year ago today I woke up with butterflies in my stomach and thoughts of anticipation…my husband was coming home from Afghanistan!!! Everything was clean and set up for his arrival…all I had…
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when it started pouring, God sent a rainbow
“When it rains, it pours…” Such has been the story of our lives for the past 3 weeks…. I guess it all began the morning that I spilled coffee on my Macbook computer.
