Deployment
Inside this post: Every military spouse should have a roadside emergency kit for deployment. Learn the items you need and where to get them. Right in the middle of deployment, I got the kids ready and headed to the car outside our apartment building. After wrestling each of them into their car seats, I hopped into the driver's [...]
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One Simple Tool That Will Make Deployment Easier
I’m going to be brutally honest with you: I’ve never used a deployment binder before. Each time deployment would come around (and it seemed to come around an awful lot) I’d run around like a lady with her hair on fire. It was mildly embarrassing, but I know for certain I’m not the only spouse who does this. So there’s that. Plus, I [...]
MilSpouse Life47 Things No One Tells You About Being a Military Wife
She turned her head towards me and uttered the words I dreaded most, “You knew what you were getting into right?” I always hate getting asked this question because, in a way, I did know what military life would be like--frequent moves, separations and the overall feeling that life is a like a revolving door. But at the same time, I [...]
How To Cope When Your Spouse Works During The Holidays
Ahh, the holidays. It's a magical time. There are trees. There are twinkling lights. Cookies. Gifts. Santa. It's even more spectacular when you have kids because you can experience everything all over again through their eyes. But suppose you have a spouse that can't join you? Not because they're deployed, but because they have a tough [...]
The Surprising Thing You’ll Miss Most During Deployment
It’s 2:37 am. My husband’s awake. I’m trying to fall back asleep and forget about what is about to happen, but my heart won’t allow my mind to shut off. I walk into the living room and there he sits, eating his breakfast in the middle of the night. It smells like eggs and toast and coffee. I can’t help but think this is the last time he [...]
50+ Amazing Things Military Spouses Can Do During Deployment
If you talk to enough military spouses in the middle of a deployment, you'll discover a common theme: everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It's as if kids wait to get sick, washing machines wait to break down, and all minor emergencies are reserved for the days, weeks and months your service member is gone on a training mission [...]
What Really Goes Down on FaceTime During Deployment
My husband has deployed multiple times. He's gone to Korea for a year. He's been away on countless TDYs. So we've depended on programs like FaceTime and Skype to cope with deployment separations. It allows the kids to see their Daddy. It allows me to see my husband. But the conversations don't always go smoothly. This is, after all, [...]
How to Balance Motherhood and Deployment as a Work-at-Home MilSpouse
As if being a mom wasn’t enough work on it’s own, YOU ambitious military spouse, are also running a business and dealing with a deployment. You are SUPER MOM. But some days, I bet it doesn’t feel that way. You might feel stretched too thin or feel conflicted between your work and spending time with your children. Or maybe you have a [...]
9 Reasons Why It’s Okay When He Deploys
It's always a shock when my husband tells me he has to deploy. I go through various emotions coping with deployment separation: I cry and ask if the military can send someone else. (No.) I panic and think I can't do it all on my own. photo credit: Kristen Wong After that comes acceptance, but it's generally a nervous acceptance. I [...]
10 Things Military Spouses Won’t Tell You About Deployment
I remember the first time my husband called me after returning from Iraq. I was a military girlfriend and living long-distance at the time. Hence the phone call. So…We were chatting away, and I was feeling all sorts of happy butterflies because he was finally home. And we were—finally—going to see each other and spend time together! [...]
