Why You Simply Must Go Overseas When Your Spouse Gets OCONUS Orders “Well, I don’t have to redo Basic, and I leave for Germany in two weeks” was what my husband said to me when I picked him up from MEPS in November of 2005. I was pretty speechless. I knew that Europe was a…
Stationed in Germany
How PCSing Overseas Will Change You Forever
How PCSing Overseas Will Change You Forever We got on the train headed for our new home in Schweinfurt, Germany. I had never been to Europe before. I hadn’t even been to Canada. Only parts of Mexico back in high school. I was in another world, but one that looked similar to my own. As…
Bloom Where You Are Stationed
“I hate it here.” “We just got orders there and I am scared. I have only heard bad things.” “I really don’t want to leave here and have to move there. It is the worst place we could go.” “I really just want the next three years to pass quickly so we can move somewhere…
Giving Birth Without Your Husband
Giving Birth Without Your Husband If you walk into a room of Military wives and ask how many of them have given birth without their husbands, you would get quite a few hands. It is something that has happened to a lot of us. Despite planning, a compassionate chain of command and a lot…
Living in Hohenfels, Germany
Happy to have this guest post by LeAnna on Hohenfels, Germany. Please visit my Duty station guest post page for posts on other locations or more information about how you can write a guest post about where you have been stationed. Hohen-Hells, Germany. Oops, I mean, Hohenfels; the Army Post in Nowheresville, Germany where…
When Moving Back To The United States From Overseas Is Hard
We have been back from Germany a little over six years now. It was quite the change to go from a small village in Germany to Clarksville, Tennessee and the USA. I was so ready to be back in the states after four years. I think I kissed the ground when I got off the…
Amsterdam & The Netherlands
While we were overseas we were able to do a little bit of traveling. I am glad we were able to do this. In May of 2008 I took a USO tour with some friends to visit Amsterdam & The Netherlands. It was a two-day tour but you were supposed to sleep on the bus. I…
On Living in Wiesbaden, Germany
Happy to have this guest post by Rebecca on Wiesbaden, Germany. Please visit my Duty station guest post page for posts on other locations or more information about how you can write a guest post about where you have been stationed. I had the privilege of living in Wiesbaden, Germany from January 2008 through December 2010….
Photography: Day at an Austrian Zoo
In 2009 we spent Spring break in Austria visiting a friend of mine. She tooks us all over. The first place we went to a zoo. It was a lot of fun and it was great to see a different type of zoo then we were used to.
Photography Around A German Village
It’s been 5 years since we moved back to the states but I have so many photos from my time in Germany that I really haven’t blogged about. Germany is where I got back into my photography. When we were in Germany we lived in Schweinfurt for about 2.5 years and a little village…