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Homefront Spouse: Paying it Forward Means Happy Hearts at Home

I cannot believe how fast summer came and went! There have been a lot of crazy days between our summer PCS move and fall as well as a lot of bad days too, I won’t lie. I am still adjusting to my husband being back in the fleet and somehow, even though my baby is well over a year old, I am continually learning how to be a mom of two while juggling this crazy roller coaster lifestyle. I am not sure if I will ever get the hang of it all!

When Worlds Collide

Working outside the home and taking care of a family can be a precarious balancing act. When those two worlds collide, lost jobs, exhausted kids and quarreling spouses can be found in the wreckage.

Big Changes Mean Teamwork During Deployment

If there’s one thing a military family knows, it’s that life never stays stagnant during a deployment.  Sure, we may be missing our spouse, but life continues here at home at the same pace as usual. For our family, that usually means a breakneck pace. This has been even more true this deployment.

Retirement Chronicles: The Paper Trail

It is the end of my husband's career and I feel more like a historian than a spouse.

For 15 years I have carefully labeled, organized and preserved hundreds of documents that he has been issued over his career. Overkill? Maybe. But necessary, absolutely.

PCS Blues

Friends, if you think back, there are probably several times in your life that you swore you would, "never do this again."  My list includes:  waking up with a wicked hangover, giving birth, rappelling and changing planes more than once on a single trip.

Back to School Jitters

There are so many things that make us forget the deep sighs of midterms and remind us of the magic of the fall semester - the smell of new pencils, the intensity of new highlighters and the crisp newness of notebooks not yet introduced to the beauty of the written word.

Puppy, and kitty, love

My cat is the face that has launched a dozen angry phone calls.

It's time to PCS, which means, it's time to wade through red tape, phone calls and stacks of paperwork so tall that even the most organized spouses shudder at the thought. We've never moved with a small animal before and now I know why.

This is a royal pain in the tail.

Tough

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali

I AM a champion. I am a champion for military families, for my family but mostly, I am a champion for me. But right now, honestly, I don't feel like a champion. I feel like a hot mess.

A Job Haunting We Will Go

Best. Teenage. Job. Ever.

As a junior in high school I spent my October working in a haunted house. Every Friday and Saturday night I diligently applied globs of hair gel and aqua net to my curly locks in an attempt to make them stand on end, painted my face white and donned the tattered, "blood-stained" duds of Dracula's bride.

They paid me to make people scream. That part was awesome.

Inspired Spouse
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - Coach John Wooden

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