A thousand apologies for not writing more consistently this summer! My excuse this week has been that my husband and son have been away visiting our family in Louisiana and I have had my nose to the grindstone, finishing up one project and working on another, as well as many details for Wives of Faith

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I have waited a couple of weeks to write this post. Mainly because I wanted the time to really think about what I wanted to say. My husband is at his weekend drill today. A year ago he was in Iraq. And five years ago, March 19, the day President Bush announced our country was

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My friend Sammi, one of our Wives of Faith ladies, emailed earlier today. She lives with her husband at Camp Pendleton in California and she said there are fires all around them and there’s a good possibility they will have to leave their apartment. Her husband deploys in less than two weeks for his second

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Yesterday, on SpouseBuzz, there was a blog discussion about whether those who do not have family in the military, or are not directly affected by the war, whether they even think about military families or the troops or is there such a disconnect now between those who serve and those who don’t that our military

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You may find this post a little odd, but please stay with me, I have a reason for honoring and recognizing a beer company of all things. We just got back from our vacation to Orlando and it was absolutely wonderful. We stayed in a great condo at a great price thanks to Armed Forces

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My husband is on his way home. I got his call last night while I was at choir practice. It was very late and he was very tired but he told me they had made it. He was in Kuwait and it won’t be long before he’s back in the States and then back with

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One of the biggest challenges National Guard and Reserve members and their families face when deployments occur is dealing with the workplace back home. Deployments put civilian jobs on hold and fears of financial losses, missing opportunities for promotion, and worries about when a servicemember comes home can really impact and affect a family. It’s

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