While we spend another Thanksgiving apart, I still have many things to be thankful for! Email and webcams: I know that email can seem impersonal sometimes, but I’m still thankful that I can look forward to my husband’s emails everyday and know he is safe. At least we don’t have to communicate by letter. Webcams […]

I am currently on my fifth deployment, but this one is a little different than the rest. First off, I am not in Iraq or Afghanistan, second I had the option to turn this one down, and third we are somewhere in the Caribbean and Central America. I was alerted to this deployment in August, […]

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 […]