Oh Baby

Since my delivery, life has kind of sped by me. I feel like if I blink anymore, my precious baby will be a grown woman running off to college and getting married. I’ve forgotten how exciting and precious these first few months to a year of life are with an infant. Unfortunately, my husband B [...]

The Comfort Team: Review

  A friend and I sneaked off during the day while my kids were at school to see the world premiere of a play. We didn’t really know what it was going to be about or how we were going to like it. We walked to the theater and talked about how good/bad it could [...]

The Difference In Love

Early in my journey as a military wife, I came to realize that my husband loves his country. He has a love for it that most people will never understand. I remember at times thinking that he must love it more then he loves me. Or maybe he doesn’t love it more; maybe it is [...]

2 Dinners and… a Lack of OPSEC!

In the last week, my family and I have gone out twice for dinner. In both of our adventures, we were seated next to tables that consisted of 2 or 3 women with 2 or 3 kids apiece. Needless to say it was a little loud and rowdy at times. I have 3 kids myself [...]

Navigating through a high risk pregnancy and deployment

  No one said being a military spouse was easy. There are many challenges we must face on a daily basis that the civilian world doesn’t. One of those inevitable challenges would be deployment. Deployments can leave a loved one feeling sad, anxious, lonely, or doubtful about what the future can hold. They can also [...]

Welcome New Blogger Vanessa

Hi Everyone, We have some new and exciting things going on here at My Military Life. They including getting to welcome some new bloggers. Today, please help me welcome military spouse Vanessa! She is located on the east coast and will be blogging about life on the homefront while experiencing a pregnancy during a deployment [...]

Be On The Show: Break the Cycle: Supporting Those Who Support You!

We are looking for guests and YOUR input!! Upcoming Show: Giving Your FRG a Second Chance! Want to know what the goal of this show is? To promote a healthy discussion of the negative experiences of spouses with FRG’s and /or Ombudsman. And to tell how these experiences have ultimately helped you and what positive [...]

Deployment Day

PEARL HARBOR (Sept. 21, 2012) Families of Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) watch as the ship departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Hamilton is scheduled for a 10-month deployment to the western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tiarra Fulgham/Released)   Day One of a deployment is [...]

Break the Cycle: Supporting Those Who Support You

In response to a few blogs and/or Facebook groups that I have come across in the past couple of weeks: In my years as a Navy wife I have heard more than enough times about the stereotypes associated with our lives and seemingly to most everything we put our hands in. I think what irks [...]

TV Shopping without the Husband?!?

We were only a couple of weeks in to our most recent deployment and Murphy had reared his ugly head too many times to even want to remember! The last in our unfortunate incidences, the TV. One of my three wonderful children decided to take it out (with something apparently hard and sharp). This of [...]

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