Meet the Bloggers
Welcome to our Blog, where we have been blogging since 2007!
The My Crazy, Amazing Military Life (TM) blog is written by a diverse group of military spouses. Below you’ll find some background info on each of the authors. Our goal is share our experiences and learn from another.
Our hope is you find this blog a great distraction to a long deployment. We invite you to pour that cup of tea and get connected. We’d love to hear from you, be sure to leave us a comment and let us know you were here!
NEW! We are currently looking for bloggers! Do you have something to say about living this military life? Then contact us today! Please submit a sample post or link to your current blog to wendy(at)mymilitarylife.com.
About the Bloggers:
Julie and her husband Ben have been married for 9 years. They have been an Army family for 5.5 years and have 3 little boys, 6, 4 and 9 months. Julie and her family spent 4 years stationed in Germany and are now stationed at Ft. Campbell and just finished their 3rd deployment. Julie has been blogging pretty regularly since 2009. You can also read more from Julie on personal blog http://soldierswifecrazylife.com
Jenn is a mother of three young children. She hails from New England but currently lives on the left coast. She and her husband have been together for 12 years, married nearly 10. Prior to meeting her husband she was active duty military herself. When Jenn is not volunteering her time she runs and enjoys writing and dance. She has a wicked sense of humor and she enjoys great comedy and burning the candle at both ends. Jenn is the wife of an active duty Coast Guardsman.
Megan: My name is Megan; Im a military dependent of 24 years. Both of my parents were in the Marines and my husband, who Ive been with for just over four years, is a Navy Submariner. I have 3 kids, a 4 year old boy (who bounces off walls), a 21 month old girl (who starts fights with the 4 year old, and has an attitude 3 times her size), and a 6 month old boy (who has no clue what he is in for). Hubby and I just recently started our shore duty tour coming from the fast attack community, and what a change Ill tell you a secret, I miss boat life. (Note: Megan previously blogged under the name: JustaSubWife)
KristenH: Hello! I’m Kristen Hodges and I am a Navy wife and a full time artist with a degree in Art Education from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Because of my training as an Art Educator, I’ve dabbled in a lot of different mediums from graphic design and painting to ceramics and printmaking, and I love them all! At base, I enjoy hosting Craft Nights for my local military wife meet up group and hanging out with our Jack Russell, Juniper.
I work from home, designing for 1000 Markets and Bixbe to create graphics and illustrations for their blog and various merchant promotions. I also manage my own handmade shop, Pins + Paper, with my sister while I follow my husband across the country. Together, we specialize in creating stylish handmade desk accessories that you’ll love working with and showing off! I carry with me 8 years experience in retail sales, food service and management positions that has greatly helped me as an entrepreneur to offer the best customer service I possibly can. As an Etsy shop owner, I’m a proud member of the Homefront Etsy Team. I’m not a computer whiz… just an artist learning the ropes of selling online in this new economic age in the midst of a massive Handmade Movement.
Kristen M is a submarine wife, who’s totally in love with her husband, her dogs, and her yoga practice. She believes in seeking out the positive, doing what makes you feel good, and doing good for others. Yoga found her a decade ago, and it was the first step on a path to mind and body wellness. 10 years later, she’s earned her Yoga Alliance Teacher’s Certification. She loves sharing yoga and other positive lifestyle choices with anyone who wants to manage stress, increase wellness, and just feel better!
Navy Wife Beth: I met the love of my life 12 years ago while we were attending the same university. Marriage and children soon followed and we spent the next 10 years in the “civilian world”. I’ve been a stay at home mom of two kids Aaron 10ish and Gracie 5ish. Two years ago things changed in the company my husband worked for and we knew it was time for a change. Hello, Navy!! My husband being the average IT guy was not what anyone would envision as your next Sailor, but the doors FLEW open for him. We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary as a military family and we have yet to make it to his first duty station. He’s still in training, so you all will be along for the ride with us as we do our first PCS, get involved with an actual command, and raise these Navy Brats. I will enjoy getting to know you as you travel along with us!
NEW! Tessa: Ciao from Italia! My name is Tessa and I have been married to my Air Force husband for one year this December. Before entering the military world, I earned my Bachelors degree in Communications/Journalism with an emphasis in Public Relations from Shippensburg University in my home state of Pennsylvania. During my four years there I was involved with Residence Life and found my passion for working with college students. After graduation, I worked as a VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) through AmeriCorps supervising a mentoring program with college freshman encouraging at-risk high school students to further their education. Afterward, I worked at Binghamton University in New York as a Resident Director supervising and advising some amazing students who have made long lasting impressions on my life. On the day my husband and I eloped, I packed up my apartment, quit my job, and headed home preparing to tell my family I would be moving to Italy in a little over a month. This past year has been full of transition for me – being a newlywed, being unemployed, being away from the college environment and finding new passions, and of course – becoming a military spouse. Currently I am studying School Counseling with UMUC to get my Masters degree before we leave Italy in January 2015. During my 10 months of down time I’ve been able to focus on myself and figure out what other interests I have, a few of them being: blogging, inventing new recipes, photography (my husband is the real pro, but I still think it’s fun!), and interior design. I look forward to meeting other military spouses (seasoned and new!) and hope that my stories and adventures shed an additional light into the life of a military wife.
TrevsNavyWife: I am a born, bred and raised California girl. Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself married to the military. Here I am loving every minute of it. My husband joined in 2001and after boot camp we were sent to our first command in Norfolk, Virginia, followed by San Diego, and now Annapolis, Maryland. I am the mom of two awesome children who make every day an eventful one! I love to read, usually military life books, I am always looking for the next great spouse tip! I crochet and sew and love to make crafts for others!! I found Navy Wife Radio after searching the internet for something I could connect with. My brief time with Navy Wife Radio thus far has been like second nature after growing up watching my father as a radio programmer until 1996. It has been so much fun to share a bit of my life with other military spouses and I hope that they have enjoyed it. I love the ride of this crazy amazing military life and hope you like joining me on it! Email me at marla(at)navywiferadio.com
Wendy / Wendy – Navy Wife Radio is a Navy wife writing about design, military life, writing, photography, travel and her beagles. She is the founder of MyMilitaryLife.com. She has a background that includes working as DoD civilian for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. A web developer and the owner of media studio since 2001, she has managed to follow her dreams while following her husbands career. She also writes freelance and has been published in Military Spouse Magazine and The Navy Times. She is the executive producer of Military Life Radio and the hit webcast Navy Wife Radio. Wendy’s husband is a Submariner who has also deployed as an IA to Afghanistan.
Contact us today!! wendy(at)mymilitarylife.com
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Emeritus Bloggers:
Alecia has been married to her Sailor for seven years and is currently stationed in Hawaii. The mom of a young son, Alecia runs her own retail online business.
Cristin grew up in a small town in Georgia. Shortly after graduating from college, I married my high school sweetheart. Two months later, my husband received his Army commission and our military adventures began! In addition to living in Georgia, the Army has sent us to Ft Sill, Oklahoma and Baumholder, Germany. I am currently living back in Georgia with our baby girl and dog, while my husband is on his second deployment.
I have previously worked as a Department of the Army civilian employee but now enjoy staying home with my daughter. I am passionate about sports and fitness and am grateful to have had the opportunity to become certified as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor. I am excited about this career path since it will allow me to help others and also have the flexibility to spend plenty of time with my family. We all know too well how precious that time is!
The military life is sometimes very hard but overall we enjoy it. I am so proud of my husband and his fellow service members. I feel blessed to be able to call myself a military wife!
Hillary (Hillycsp) was born and raised in South Georgia, lived there all 20 years until my life took a sudden and unexpected turn towards marriage. After just three months of dating my best friend from high school, I moved to California and married him. I am the first member of my family to be involved with the military. The short time I have been a Navy wife I have come to appreciate my independence and my faith more than ever. I spend my newly-found free time reading Marry Higgins Clark books and surfing the net, chatting with fellow military spouses. I am a budding, but not very astute, chef. I am really enjoying this new life I have been blessed with and look forward to facing and overcoming the challenges it will bring with it.
Jessica is a Navy Wife and mom. She is also an aspiring writer, you’ll find her posts to be funny and thought provoking!
Jewls: Julie Negron is the creator of JennySpouse.com. A cartoon comic strip about being a Military Spouse. You’ll love her humor. Julie is currently in Japan and occasionally writes here on the blog. You can read her latest comic at www.jennyspouse.com
KateeN: I am a young military spouse and have been associated with the Navy for about five years, three of which has been as a spouse. I’ve gone through several underways that lasted anywhere between a week to three months and a six month deployment. I’ve only been connected to one boat, a fast attack, but am getting ready to go to another within the next year. We are expecting our first child, a boy, this September so we are in for the adventure of a lifetime! I am currently working towards my college degree of speech pathology and hope to eventually earn a doctorates degree. I enjoy playing tennis, reading, writing and scrapbooking (even though I’m really not very good).
LeaUSMC: I’ve been married for five and a half years to a wonderful man who happens to be an amazing Marine. We live a little bit of a unique lifestyle compared to the rest of the corps. We’ve weathered some of the more typical types of long deployments but because he’s a flyer we deal with constant comings and goings and a schedule that is at the mercy of the Marine Corps. We are blessed with two very active, very rough and tumble little boys, Dash-1 who is three and Dash-2 who is 16 mths.
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