Ideas from a Veteran Army wife about preparing for a deployment (This is her 5th!) You can read more from her blog here. You would think after 4 year long deployments, I would be an old pro at this, but every deployment is different, and so it’s time to start thinking about this next one. […]

Here’s a post from an Army wife counting down to her husband’s next deployment. You can read her blog here.   K.’s gear packed up in the barn a couple of weeks ago. GI Joe would sell his Kung Fu grip for all the stuff K. has stashed away in there! The closer he gets […]

Luckily my husband’s trip plans got rearranged and he ended up staying home for another week. My friends called it a “bonus week” with Mike. However, we didn’t learn about the change in plans until one day before he was scheduled to leave. So after being upset the night before and waking up with a […]

By Pamela Yip / The Dallas Morning News Good financial planning means being prepared for life’s unexpected occurrences. For military families, that’s particularly important because of the transient nature of military life. Repeated back-to-back deployments make it imperative that both spouses have the same financial goals and decide how the stay-at-home spouse will hold down […]

Right before deployment I tend to struggle with how to spend time with my husband prior to him leaving. Especially if we weren’t given much time to prepare – like this next deployment that is coming up fast. I work full time and my husband’s schedule tends to get crazy preparing for their deployment so […]

This week my husband called me at work and said he had the career opportunity of a lifetime to be 2nd in command on an important mission. He was going to be deployed about 3 months; however, he had the opportunity to decline this mission since he hasn’t been home from his last deployment for […]

When you become a military wife or significant other you quickly learn there is nothing that could prepare you for this new role. About 4.5 years ago, I had a rather shocking initiation becoming a Marine Corps wife. After Mike came home from a 3-month deployment to Afghanistan, he proposed to me. We were so […]

I read an interesting blog post today on the difference between unfounded worry and legitimate concern. Wow! It was eye-opening…. and I wish I’d read it during Paul’s deployment! While Paul was in Afghanistan, I was a nervous wreck. I spent many sleepless nights and many afternoons unfocused and aimless in my life. I did […]

I’m re-posting a wonderful entry from a woman living through deployment and musing about marrying her soldier. You can see her blog here. I don’t know any military spouses who haven’t had moments of ‘I can’t do this,’ or worse still, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ Certaintly I felt that way plenty during Paul’s […]

Here’s a great Article from Military Spouse Magazine online. (I am also a subscriber to this magazine, and I love it! Lots of helpful information and tips – especially for deployment!) Why do you feel angry before a deployment? by Whitney Bailey If you’ve gone through a deployment, you are probably familiar with the cycle […]