My journey from military to motherhood didn’t go quite like I expected. Go and have children they said… You can stay at home with the kids and life will be easy… So…I took the bait, but they were wrong. So very wrong. Before I left the military behind to become a stay at home mom […]
So how do you do it? How do you continue making friends while moving around the country every couple of years? Along with being a wife and mom and I am also a military spouse. My husband is in the Air Force and after serving in the Air Force alongside my husband I chose to […]
by Lindsay Swoboda, Uplifting Anchor “Mommy, I don’t WANT to move. I will miss our house. What about my music class? What about my friends? What about…” The number of items my daughter is worried about for this PCS astounds me. At only 3 years old, I thought we could blaze through our upcoming move […]
Do you try and stop yourself from feeling the hurt that comes when starting over? As a military wife, “starting over” and “loneliness” are a few of my close friends. They aren’t exactly the company I like to keep, and it might sound crazy, but some of the very best relationships in my life have […]
Do you know that people are watching what you are doing right now? Are you inspiring the world around you? A few months ago, a friend that I admire told me how much my story inspires her. My immediate thought pattern was, but you are so inspirational, how can my story inspire you? And then […]
When people think of mental health linked to deployment their minds often jump to combat situations, being injured or dealing with dramatic situations. While these situations do happen overseas and can cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), there are other issues with being in a combat zone that can easily be overlooked. I deployed to […]
Leaving the military was the easy choice on paper. My husband’s and my career fields made it hard to be stationed together. I would likely have to deploy soon after my son was born. Other miscellaneous travel was to be expected. Just to name a few of the reasons. The list continued on… It was […]
One of the most common questions people ask me when they find out I served in the military is why did you leave? Why didn’t you stay until retirement? And while the retirement package is desirable. There is a lot of hard work and sacrifice required to get to that point. Military members who are […]
Sometimes I feel as though I am making a choice between my children and my life. I feel pulled in two very different directions that makes me feel as if I take care of one I’m neglecting the other. I’m trying to find balance in life, but it is so hard. Before I became a […]
When I joined the military I was just a normal girl. There wasn’t anything special about me. I had the same fears about the military everyone else has, but I had a desire to serve my country. To be something more, but I wasn’t actually sure I could do it. But I am a doer […]
I am a former Air Force officer who has transitioned to being a stay at home mom and Air Force wife. My husband and I have lived in New Mexico and Ohio and now California. I left the military in 2013.
Here on my blog I share stories incorporating life experience from veteran/milspouse/motherhood perspective while occasionally throwing in my past letters home from my Afghanistan deployment.
My goal is to inspire others on their life journey and hopeful find some encouragement along the way I help military leaders transition into mom life so they can thrive.
