I am “recovering” this week from a great week last week in Nashville where I got to visit with my mom and sister and also do a few fun things with a couple of my books plus meet with some of our Wives of Faith board members! Last Tuesday I did a webcast with LifeWay

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I’m on the email list for the Association of the United States Navy (AUSN), and they sent this press release out yesterday which I thought I’d pass along. I don’t agree at all with the health care reform that’s happening, especially when the majority of the people don’t want it. But at least one politician

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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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We interrupt this sunny weekend to write a quick post about something fun our family is going to try this summer. I thought you might also be able to use this idea if you’re already wondering how you can get some good family time in without breaking the bank and before you hear “Mom, I’m

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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been “tweeting” (Twitter talk for all you non-Twitter folks ) with Lauren Vargas (@AAFES_STYS) who works for AAFES and she told me something I didn’t know – that the commanding officer in charge of AAFES, Major General Keith Thurgood, was an Army reservist before accepting his current assignment. Actually, I think

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I don’t have a lot of words today. It’s been seven years, but for many Americans who lived through that day on September 11, 2001, it will always feel like a recent memory, not a forgotten one. At least I hope it will continue to be that way. This year I made myself sit down

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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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I had to share this… Caleb and I had the privilege of speaking to the 6th graders at our church this week – once on Wednesday night and then again this morning during Sunday school. I talked to them about what it was like to be in Iraq, showed them lots of pictures, and also

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