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The first
Well here we go. My life is a traveling one but it is so much more. I am a military wife...which in reality is much less glamorous but much more rewarding than people can imagine.I am starting this...
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Someone grab the duct tape.
It's amazing how the worst part of this life is also the best.Everytime we move I am somehow ridiculously blessed with finding amazing people. Even in the smallest of towns I find people that today I...
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Maybe I'm just weird.
Yes, my husband leaves. He leaves quite a bit actually. Granted its not for years at a time like some wives bravely endure but more like months, weeks, days. But yes, he leaves me.Here is where the...
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The Wild Card
The future is almost non-existent to me. Ok, more like a figment of my imagination. We live in the present and sometimes the past but the future is more a mythical creature we only hear about in hushed...
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Stopping the train
There is a part in a John Mayer song that hit me like a ton of bricks today. The song is called "Stop This Train" and the lyrics are :"So scared of getting olderI'm only good at being youngSo I play...
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Path
I got this amazing message from an incredible person today. She said some wonderful things and asked some even more wonderful questions, which got me thinking.This life prompts so many of us to ask...
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Suck it.
So at this new duty station we are in the boonies. It is beautiful here but there is NOTHING to do and absolutely NO jobs. It's so frustrating. It has taken me a long time to find a job before but...
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The solution
....why am I so scared to have a kid....I think it is really because everything will change. I am not good with huge major life changes. I have trouble actually picturing things. I am an extremely...
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Second place
I think one of the hardest part about this life is always being second. Actually what may be harder is accepting that role. I struggle a lot with having to take a back seat to the military in every and...
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Huh? What? I don't get it.
Lately I have been dreaming like crazy. Literally crazy. My dreams are all over the place, they are vivid, strange, long and there are always more than one. I mean its like chapters in a book. I have...
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It's a beautiful thing...
Hope. It's the lifeblood of the military wife. We always have hope. Hope for our marriages, for friends, for a great place to live. We have to. Without hope we would be lost and miserable. I don't...
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The "P" word.
Finding our worth is a huge part of being a military wife. We can never compete with what our husbands do. They have devoted their lives to the protection of our country and it's people, we have...
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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am....
Yup, stuck in the middle. This post isn't so much about my military wife life as it is about my life in general. I am the middle child....it sucks. I am not sure how many of you reading are the middle...
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Hindsight is most definitely 20/20
I found this in my e-mails. I wrote it well over a year ago. It's amazing how we sense change so long before it comes...how our insides know what we need long before our heads catch up...It is hard to...
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My dirty little secret...finally caught up with me.
Alright, it's time for me to come clean. I am a complete, total, irreparable klutz. I am serious, if there is a 5 foot wide sidewalk, I will walk into the tree on the very edge. In my old lunch room at...
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It's worse than dial-up...
My connection to my husband lately that is. He has been gone a lot lately and I really feel so disconnected from him.This is worse than when he would leave for months at a time. I could prepare myself...
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In our own time.
You know how sometimes when you first meet someone (in a romantic sense) they seem just amazing. Then slowly as you get to know them all the differences between you begin to emerge. Toilet seats left...
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Houdini...
Yes, I pulled a disappearing act. My life really did get turned upside down and I am just now wrapping my brain around the last several months and getting my emotions in check so that I can share with...
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A six month journey to find myself.
It's time for me to share. I took a walk today and all of it just came out of me. I don't think it was that I was trying to hide anything or that I wasn't 'ready' to talk about the last few months I...
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Jerry Garcia had it right..
What a long strange trip it's been.I can't thank everyone enough for all the support, spoken and silent over the almost year (wow) now. I have always been a true believer in the universe. I believe...
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