I recently saw a post on Facebook that talked about how you can still be a good person and say no, and that you are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm and I loved it. So many times, we as military spouses, get to a place of extreme burnout….
You can head to your local Target before it is even January 1st and be hit in the face with Valentine’s everything. That stuff shows up way before your ready and seems to stick around way too long. All for one day in February. As a military spouse, this day can be pretty frustrating. If…
War. Going to war. Sending your spouse off to go to war. War. It’s a word that military families know well. It is a word that brings up a lot of scary feelings. It is a word that probably feels different based on your experience with it. As we head into 2020, with news of…
Telling our stories is one of the most patriotic ways we as spouses and family members can support our service members. My spouse is active duty Air Force, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve been on edge all month. Ever since our military activity started ramping up earlier this month – it’s a…
The word is that those deploying to the middle east will not be able to bring their laptops or cell phones, at least in some cases. As you can imagine, this has caused quite a lot of drama. The comment section is filled with so many different thoughts on the subject. Some people talk about…
As military spouses, what happens in the world can hit us hard. We wonder what it will mean for the military, what it will mean for our spouse. We just don’t know what will happen and we can get pretty freaked out by it all. Some say this is what our spouses signed up for,…
As we are getting close to the end of this decade, I decided to go into my Shutterfly account and try to organize my photos a bit more. As I was looking through older photos I came across one from Thanksgiving 2012. I think my husband was home, but we got together with a bunch…
