We’re doing our annual Military Spouse Appreciation Blog Carnival over at Wives of Faith today… (join in the fun!) I became the spouse of a Navy Reservist the day I married Cliff Horn (June 6, 1998). But I didn’t really think of myself as a military spouse until we’d been married almost 9 years, when

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Thought I’d share with you what’s been keeping me away for the most part all summer long – my new Bible study, Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment! – It’s now available on LifeWay’s website for pre-orders and comes out this fall. I am so excited to share this with other military wives

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Only five more days to go with the Wives of Faith Twelve Days of Christmas Blog Carnival! Today we’re talking about what we want for Christmas, and I’ll admit that this is a pretty easy one for me to respond to because what I wanted for Christmas, I JUST got! Yesterday, after being gone for

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I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while now (you know, in the month and a half I haven’t updated) but for whatever reason am just now sitting down at the keyboard to do it. If you keep up with me on Facebook, you know my husband has been on a TDY and

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Summer has begun and I have to say, in the last several days, it’s been hard to get on the computer! I NEED to get on the computer but we’ve been having too much fun doing summer stuff.

It occurred to me that some of you reading my last post might be new readers and not know about our marble jars I mentioned we used during deployment. This is the main way I used with our son to count down Cliff’s first deployment and we will most likely use them again when the

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PLEASE NOTE: The contest for the free e-book is over. Congratulations to Joy! You may still feel free to post comments. I recently asked this question to my facebook and twitter friends: As a spouse going through deployment, are you always busy or are you always trying to fill the void? The answers were really

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I had a military wife email me through Facebook this past week with a question that I think a lot of us can relate to. Here’s what she asked: My husband and I are nearing our third month in our deployment as he continues to serve in Iraq. We have been able to communicate fairly

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Be careful when you try to plan out how something will go. It will probably not happen that way. Sorry for my absence the past many days – I have literally been sick with a “bronchial infection” for the majority of the time Cliff has been gone. There went my plans to work out almost

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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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