My Homecoming

The most exciting time of a deployment is homecoming. This deployment was my first, and I was super excited. My husband was supposed to come home after Thanksgiving, but plans changed due to the mission. His ship and several others had to turn around. The one thing my pregnancy has taught me is to roll [...]

Simple Homemade Waffles from Scratch

Do you ever get into those moods where you feel like eating breakfast for dinner or brenner? In my house, brenner comes at least once a week. There is something about eating an omelet or french toast at the wrong hour of the day to make you feel like a college kid again. I blame [...]

NOW YOU TELL ME! 12 Army Wives Give the Best Advice They Never Got – Book Review

My Military Life is going to start doing some book reviews. This book came up first, and after a busy month of running around I finally sat down to read it. After 17 years as an Army spouse, you would think I would have read my fair share of books written for military spouses. I [...]

Memorial Day

I’ve never really been a patriotic person. Not to say I don’t tear up when the Star Spangled Banner plays on July 4th or that I burn the flag or anything, but I’ve never been one to run around the streets of America professing my love for my country and it’s people. Truth be told, [...]

School?!

  Even though I’m new to this whole military wife thing, my husband and I have been married for 11+ years. In all that time we’ve both bounced around career ideas about a million times. My husband looked at schools for degrees in graphic design, finance, computer science, and teaching. He even was trying to [...]

Military Spouse Friendships

We have been a Military family for over six years now. In that time I have made many new friends. Most of them have been Military wives. There is something so special about the friendships of Military spouses. Our time together is usually limited to 1-3 years. During that time we can develop a closeness [...]

Home for a while

My husband has been home from his third deployment for six months now. In the past this usually would mean that we were getting ready for our next deployment. He was home for 365 days between deployment one and two. And was home for 15 months between deployment two and three. However, his unit deployed [...]

Returning Home from Germany

After being stationed overseas, the return home might seem overwhelming.  There is a lot to think about and some of the transitions may not be as smooth as you would like.  We were in Germany for four years and have been back in the US now for a little over a year and a half. [...]