6 Genius Home & Personal Safety Tips During Deployment
Deployments are stinky and they’re stressful. And with all that stink and stress there’s real danger – for the servicemember and for their family left behind. While the home front is certainly no equal...
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The Long, Long Weeks of Deployment…
Once upon a time… …there lived a military spouse in a brand new town, she carried with her a 4 year old little girl and the love of an amazing sailor. Just a few short weeks of moving into their new...
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8 Deployment Care Package Ideas to Make You the Best Spouse Ever
When I was deployed there was nothing that could compare to hearing “MAIL CALL” and finding a hot pink duct taped box with my name on it. I knew that someone back home was thinking about me and it...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to be Deployed for Christmas
photo credit: youngqists.weebly.com As a military brat, I had my fair share of holidays without my dad around. I think it’s impossible to have a military career without being deployed for the holidays...
View Article5 Things to Remember During a Deployment Fight
We always have the best of intentions before our spouse leaves for a deployment, don’t we? We will make everything perfect for them before they leave. We will do our best not to cry and show them how...
View Article10 Things NOT to Write in A Deployment Letter To Your Spouse
When your spouse has been deployed for months and you miss them every day, you can’t wait to put pen to paper to pour out our love to your spouse and try to feel connected to them while they’re away....
View ArticleSpouses of Deployment: We Are On The Same Voyage
This year began with a challenge as my husband deployed. I have been lucky enough to have him home since 2009, so I almost forgot what this feels like. Slowly but surely, some of my other milspouse...
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5 Things No One Ever Told Me About Homecoming
We all love seeing the videos of a surprise homecoming on You Tube. Our eyes fill with tears when we watch those shows featuring service members being welcomed home by their loved ones. And who could...
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10 GIFs Showing Phases of Deployment Emotions
1. Superwoman or Superman Phase source: www.reactiongifs.com The initial “everything will be ok, I’m strong, I can handle this” phase. 2. Freakout Phase source: www.awesomelyluvvie.com This often...
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My Honest Thoughts the Week Before Homecoming
This is the final countdown… 7 Days… Did I really buy that dress for homecoming!? No. No way! Not happening. I will not be THAT wife with my tatas falling out when I run up to him. Nope. But then, he...
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5 Things Guaranteed to Happen During Deployment
The Deployment Curse. We’ve all heard about it. Many of us have experienced it. And most of us have even learned to laugh about it at some point during (or maybe months or years after) a deployment. In...
View Article3 Superb Ways Murphy’s Law is Actually a Good Thing
When I first fell in love with my now husband, I was bright-eyed about the kind of life the Navy could bring us. It wasn’t that I was unaware of the deployments and regular moves, (my Dad was in the...
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35 Ways to Make Homecoming Special
Homecoming is just around the corner. You want to make it a wonderful experience for your service member and your entire military family. Our group of collaborators put their heads together to share...
View ArticleImpatiently Waiting for Patience
I am exceptionally, incredibly, extraordinarily impatient. I have always had problems waiting: summer to arrive, Christmas gifts to be opened, school to finally be over. If the adage ‘patience is a...
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5 Things No One Ever Told Me About Homecoming
We all know that homecoming is amazing, but there are a few homecoming secrets that we keep as milspouses… We all love seeing the videos of a surprise homecoming on You Tube. Our eyes fill with tears...
View Article10 Hilarious Ways to Count Down Deployment
Whew! You did it. The despairingly stomach-churning deployment goodbye is done. You’ve made a serious dent in your Costco-sized tissue supply, eaten the neighbors’ pity cookies they dropped off while...
View ArticleHow to Survive Deployment When You Have Nothing Left to Give
Deployment is hard. It’s draining—physically, emotionally, mentally. It’s hard to be separated from your partner and harder when anything complicates it. A birth. A death. A PCS. A difficult job. Kids...
View ArticleDocumenting Deployment: History in the Making
Human nature is quite perplexing. The old saying, “you never recognize a good thing until it’s gone,” seems to be more than just a cliche disguised as an, “I told you so,” in a moment of misfortune or...
View ArticleThe Pity Flowers
I sort of knew something was wrong by the expression on his face. When you’ve been married for almost 12 years, you know. He wouldn’t look me in the eye, for one. He bit down on his lower lip. I had...
View ArticleThe Year I Watched Gilmore Girls and Learned Just To Be ME
While talking with a young friend recently, she lamented how little she’d accomplished during the year her husband was deployed. “I just feel like I didn’t meet any of the goals I set for myself while...
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