Over the weekend I had a chance to hear from a few different reserve/NG wives thanking me for some of the advice/encouragement I’d given on the different boards/forums I visit. It feels good knowing that something I said helped someone else. It feels even better knowing that something good came out of the time we

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I know a lot of women who have trouble sleeping when their husbands are away for trainings or deployment. Cliff has been home for 10 months and even a 5-day training like the one he’s been away on this week still makes it hard for me to go to bed when he’s not here (thus

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Military Spouse Magazine’s September issue is going to be all about deployment, and for the first time they will offer a National Guard/Reservist section! They’ve asked me to write an article about how reservists deal with deployment. My deadline’s quick, so I could really use your help! If you’re the wife of a reservist or

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This devotional was in my in-box this morning. “The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.” -Proverbs 28:1 Those who don’t follow God often live fear-based lives. With nothing other than themselves to depend on, who can blame them? If you don’t trust God, it’s

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This will be quick because I’ve got a lot to do today! I feel like I’ve lived at the baseball park for the last week. We were supposed to head to Chattanooga on Friday for a delayed 10 year anniversary weekend to celebrate. But, it was not to be. At least what we had thought

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If you’re a military wife, you know about prayer. (Or at least I hope you do!). We pray when our husbands leave, pray while they’re gone, pray until they come back. We depend on prayer many times to get us through to the next phone call, the next email, the next instant message. Please, God,

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Last night we attended what we thought was going to be our last baseball game of the season, and an “afterthought” at that. Caleb’s team has only won 4 games this year and 2 of those were forfeits. We ended the regular season, I think in 10th or 12th place, and promptly lost the first

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Ten years ago today, my life changed for the better when I walked down the aisle to marry my husband. We had no idea what God had in store for us; just that He had brought us together. It has been a wild ride so far, that’s for sure, but one that has never been

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Well, it’s official! I was asked to be a featured blogger for Military Spouse Magazine’s web site and my first post posted today. In talking and trading emails with the editor and one of their ad reps who actually lives in the same town I do, it sounds like they really want to do more

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In my experience? Yes. Military Spouse Magazine has an article on maintaining friendships featured on their site today and it makes some interesting points I could relate to. When you go through a deployment, you find out who your real friends are. Before Cliff deployed, we had two sets of “couple” friends that we did

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