Vacation is great but any day together = perfect

At the end of my last post, my husband and I were hours away from leaving for our long awaited honeymoon. As excited as I was, I also felt a little nervous. We have been together almost 12 years, so it wasn’t like a first date kind of nervous, but more like a "I cannot remember the last time I spent this much time alone with my husband” kind of nervous.

I guess I worried that I might be a little boring.


Homefront Spouse: A Honeymoon, Finally!

I cannot believe the day is here! My husband has almost three weeks of leave for the holidays, beginning in an hour!

This is a big deal in our house. My husband never takes that much leave time. We have been fortunate enough to have him home the last few holiday seasons but that week off usually flies by as we travel to see our families.


Homefront Spouse: Growing the Bonds of Friendship

I have to admit I have been struggling a little bit in the friend/social/military spouse involvement department here. Between the regular craziness of being a mom, my workouts (AKA my therapy) and volunteering two to three mornings a week, I have not been as outgoing or as social as I would like to be. In fact, I almost feel completely out of touch with military life.


Homefront Spouse: No More Stalling

One of my biggest struggles as a military spouse has always been what I feel my personal sacrifice has been in order to follow my husband's career.


Homefront Spouse:New Unit, New Opportunities

Even though I have been a military spouse for almost seven years, having my husband back in the fleet after a year of school has made me feel like a rookie military spouse all over again.

Except this time, I already know a handful of abbreviations and which days to avoid the commissary. And thanks to the furlough, that feels like it should be every day.


Homefront Spouse: When it Rains, it Pours – and that’s ok

The night after I started writing my last blog, we had our first ER trip in NC - followed by two rounds of the stomach bug, pink eye, ear infections and a busted lip.


Homefront Spouse: Back to the Grind

Our calendar is beginning to fill with trainings, late nights and weekend work hours for my Marine.

Initially, the conversation between my husband and I about this new job and all that it entails stung a little bit. Long hours and nights apart are nothing new, but a year together while he attended school spoiled us all.


Homefront Spouse: Settling In

We have been in North Carolina for 10 days. The movers came and went, everything is unpacked and slowly finding a place in our new house. My husband is back in the swing of work and is coming home late every day. 

It's been an exhausting week but we are happy. Tired, but happy. Still, there were definitely bumps along the way.


Homefront Spouse: While daddy is gone, mommy will … survive!

Tomorrow my husband leaves for the first time in over a year. A year ago, and with one less kid, this would have been easy.  But, after having a baby during a deployment and going through numerous, month-long trainings during our son’s first year, a week away is bound to feel like one really long day.  


Homefront Spouse:Calming the PCS Panic

Winter on the East Coast has not been kind to our family.

In the last two months we have been hit with the flu, stomach bugs and every respiratory illness in the book. This is my first cold and flu season with two kids and I am now officially a pro at getting a puking kid to the bathroom while simultaneously using one hand to give a squirmy baby a breathing treatment.  

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