Did you know I still have most of my letters from my deployment? If you have been subscribed to my email list (click here if you want to join) or read the blog for very long you probably know I have the digital emails I sent home and am creating them into a book. But […]
How to Change Your Attitude Away from Military Bitterness
When God gives you a gift you can either take it or be bitter about it. How I changed my attitude toward military bitterness. In May, my husband found out that he was moving to a new job. Luckily, we didn’t have to move. For some reason when he came home and told me about […]
What Was Your Story Before Kids? Your Story Matters
I have been thinking a lot about how much change has happened in the past four years since becoming a mom. Sometimes I get stuck into thinking that mom life is my only story and that the person I was in the past has just faded away. But I am learning that your past shapes […]
Life Transition: Time to Start Over Again
With each life transition you keep some of the past as you head off to the new adventure, journey or life goal. Being a military spouse means added to the normal transitions of life we also add starting all over in a new place and a new adventure. My neighbor and I recently were discussing […]
4 Stages of PCS Grief
The military has a culture where everything is fine. There are often times you don’t have control over your life. Where you move, where and when your husband will be gone and it is all just fine. We have this “I can do it” motto we live by. Probably because that is the way it […]
Finding that First New Friend at a New Assignment
When you move to a new place often you don’t know anyone. Sometime you get lucky and can get connected because a friend of a friend lives there and other times you have to start from scratch. You look at your list of who you can call if you are faced with an emergency and […]
Emergency Contact Reboot…Starting Over Again
“How do you do it?” It is a question that I am asked often by friends who are boggled by all the moving and starting over. Moving is the military mantra. And because of this, friendships come and go at a high rate. Friends are such an important part of this motherhood journey. We simply […]
Why Saying Goodbye to Friends Isn’t Easy
Technology may make it easier to stay connected when friends move away, but it doesn’t change the fact that saying goodbye to friends is hard. What feels like it was so far away is quickly approaching and the reality that nothing will change is no longer an illusion I can live with. Soon life will […]
How to Connect at Your New Assignment
When you join the military, or become a military spouse one thing you learn pretty quick is that you will always be making connections at each new assignment. Even when you make friends at one location you know a move is on the horizon and sometimes friends leave before you and you lose those connections. […]
The 5 Hardest Issues With Moving No One Talks About
Moving is hard and maybe when you think about moving you think of all the work it is to move all your stuff from point A to point B. And I do think about that, but what is the hardest issues with moving? It has to do with the emotions that go along with moving. You […]
