So You Just Found Out You’re Pregnant, And Your Spouse is Deploying You were trying, or maybe you weren’t. But the test is clear. You are pregnant, maybe with your first, maybe with your 4th but you know what this means. Another baby… A sibling for your two-year-old… You are growing your family, just like…
When faced with a difficult situation, sometimes the only thing to do is laugh. Sometimes during military life, you will feel like what you are going through is so ridiculous, that you can’t even get upset. Plus, laughter really is the best medicine. Here are 9 times you just have to laugh during military life:…
To My Children Born After 9/11 What we can tell our children about that day, the ones that don’t remember the world before everything changed. The ones for whom the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the norm. The ones for whom terrorism has always been a known threat. When I was in 1st grade,…
This post is sponsored by MedCerts! After 20 years I decided to go back to school, but I was nervous about doing so. I decided taking an online class would be the best way to get back into school mode after so much time. A lot had changed technology-wise since I had been in college,…
We didn’t know what that day would bring. Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, started out with clear skies and so much promise. Kids off to school. Mom and dad off to work. People getting to their jobs, some running late, some arriving early. As the morning began, we had no idea what was planned. We had…
The very last of American troops left Afghanistan yesterday. Just about two weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11. 20 years. Why can’t I wrap my mind around that? 20 years is a lifetime for some. 20 years ago, social media wasn’t something we knew anything about. 20 years ago, we had cell phones that…
Happy to have this guest post by Holly. Please email me at Julie@soldierswifecrazylife.com and let me know if you would like to write a guest post for Soldier’s Wife, Crazy Life too. I find that the hardest part of my husband being gone is always right at the beginning and then at the end. I always…
