Last month I was chatting with a few other families while waiting oh so patiently to see my husband’s unit get home.  Two sets of parents, both whose sons were returning from their first deployments, asked me if deployments ever get easier.  I smiled a bit and responded “unfortunately no”.      It never gets easier […]

Attention Oregon National Guard Spouses & Friends: Lane Community College offers new Deployment classes!   Holding Down the Homefront: A Guide for Spouses   Based on the Army’s Battlemind training for spouses and her own work with military families as a Certified Professional Life Coach, Katie Dyer – National Guard wife and Founder of Heroes […]

This is a great idea! Pillowcases for kids with pictures of their deployed parents on them. Admittedly, I made Paul a pillowcase with a picture of me sleeping on it when he deployed. (Yes, so we could still sleep together. Sigh.) But I never thought of doing it the other way around! See the original […]

I was interviewed for Memorial Day on the website Betty Confidential about what it’s like to have a deployed spouse. Check out the article here!

Mark and I and our good friend Bruno were interviewed while we were in Afghanistan. Read the article here.