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 […]

  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 […]

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!