Tag: deployments
What’s in Your Toolbox?
When my husband and I first started dating, I fixed his plumbing… A pipe under his kitchen sink broke while I was visiting him...
The Pressure of Mailing a Package Overseas
Sending a care package was such a daunting task to me. What if I don’t get the right box or forget a form? What...
When the Extraordinary Becomes Ordinary: Staying Connected
...When You Are Apart More Than Together
Like many other Marines, my husband has spent the better part of the past 11 years away from...
Dealing with Deployment: A Journey of Denial to Reality
Since we've been in the fleet, my husband has come home at least three times to tell me about a deployment he might be...
Surviving Deployment Separation: 10 Tips to Help You Thrive
Did you catch my latest blog post on Marines Blog?
Deployments are always hard, especially your first deployment. The unknown can really eat away at...
Moving from Numbness During a Deployment to a Happy Homecoming
As deployments wind down and homecomings start approaching it begins to feel like a mad dash to the finish. All of a sudden, the...
Holiday Deployments: Sending the Season Overseas
Special Note: Samantha Wagner sent me this article before she passed away from an embolism just hours after childbirth. You may have seen a post...
Guide to Working Out at Home
Every military spouse knows that they can’t depend on their significant other to get home from work everyday at the same time.
Most bases offer...
The Difference Between A Military Homecoming and Reintegration
Reintegration is that funny little thing that comes after homecoming, like a tag line to a movie title or period at the end of...
I Hate Sleeping Alone…
Is anyone else like me? My husband is TAD or deployed and the idea of getting the entire bed to myself sounds great at...
