They have been gone for so many days now, so many days. But as you look at the calendar, you realize something exciting, you have hit the halfway point. This fills you will joy because it tells you that you are making it through this deployment. It tells you that the days will actually pass…
It’s fall! As I look out the window I can see the colors of the trees. I love how beautiful the fall in Tennessee is. Watching the leaves change is also a reminder of a new season approaching and the old one letting go. As military spouses, our lives can be broken up into seasons….
This post contains affiliate links! Christmas is just around the corner, well almost…and speaking of Christmas, it’s October so I really should be thinking about Christmas shopping. But…I have TWO boys with birthdays before then to think about too. We definitely have a “birthday season” in this house. My husband starts us off in September,…
I do a lot of reflecting sometimes. I have always kept a journal and I like to think about where we have been as a couple and a family and where we are going. We have had to make a lot of choices over the years. When to have kids. To move across the country….
“I could re-join the Army,” he told me one day. We had been trying to figure out what he should do career-wise. What change he should make. “Hmm…I don’t know about that,” I told him. “I’m not sure about that, we have a kid now.” Back then, I couldn’t imagine a reality where I was…
I have been forever changed by the years my husband has either been deployed or has been away from us. I am a different person because of them. They are my past and will always impact my future. They have changed the way I parent, how I make friends, and will influence the choices I…
Some of the hardest days of my life as a military spouse have been the days I have had to say goodbye to my husband. To give him one more hug, one more kiss, and hope and pray he would return to us. To watch him as he said goodbye to our children, knowing that…
