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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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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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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Well, the Fox17 series they were doing on our family has finished with this week’s segments they aired over Thanksgiving. I have to admit I cried every time I watched them – especially the Homecoming part. Laura Faber, the anchor for the station and the reporter responsible for the series, said there weren’t many dry

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Living on love. That’s what my husband said we’re doing yesterday and I have to agree. Maybe it’s a corny sentiment, but it’s pretty accurate in our case. Since he got home, I have embraced, savored and enjoyed our family time. And I haven’t wanted to do anything else. If you’ve known me for a

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