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Taking Care of Business: A Celebration of Deployment Victories

Taking Care of Business: A Celebration of Deployment Victories

by | Jul 28, 2020

A new friend and fellow milspouse just embarked on her first deployment, and she was telling me about some things she had successfully accomplished while her husband was gone.

As she accomplishes a task that perhaps her husband would have normally taken care of, she gives herself an imaginary pat on the back, takes a picture, and sends it to her husband with the hashtag #takingcareofbusiness. It’s become a cute way for her to share what’s going on day to day, build her confidence that she can do this, and also remind her husband that she’s doing just fine.

I thought it was such a great idea, so it got me thinking about the last 16 years of Army wife life and all the unique skills that I have developed, thanks to those Army-ordered times of separation.

OCONUS PCS Pro Tips

OCONUS PCS Pro Tips

by | Jul 26, 2020

Now that I have moved into our house (albeit, without our HHG which are somewhere on a container ship in the Atlantic Ocean at this moment), I can breathe a nice, full breath knowing we successfully navigated an OCONUS PCS right smack-dab in the middle of COVID. 

I’m not writing you today to tell you about a PCS during COVID, but rather, about a couple important and helpful tips we used to PCS from an OCONUS duty station, because that’s a whole new ball of wax with more opinions on the rules than those put forth by medical and political Facebook experts.

Here are six pro tips:

Family Is What You Make Of It

Family Is What You Make Of It

by | Jul 25, 2020

When I was in high school, my four girlfriends and I would all bring bagged lunches so we could race to my friend Christina’s house every single lunch break so we could catch as many minutes as possible of Jerry Springer… I’m not even joking. If you’ve never seen it, let me break it down for you: it’s a hot mess of a talk show full of angry, cheating spouses, paternity tests, on-stage fistfights broken up by bouncers, best friends being torn apart by lies, and the list goes on. It was a way to watch all of these crazy things, then turn it off and go back to your normal day and think to yourself, “Wow, I’m so glad my life is not like that.”

I mean, why air all of your family’s dirty laundry in such a public way? Oh yeah, because people love to watch it—me and my 16-year-old friends included.

Be Your Best

Be Your Best

by | Jul 15, 2020

A few weeks ago, my friend suggested that I take the Enneagram Test. I was all for it, since I love taking personality tests, like Strength Finder 2.0, Myers-Briggs, The 5 Love Languages, etc.

After fifteen minutes of taking the test, I had my results. I am 95% a number 1, which means being a perfectionist or the “good girl.” Honestly, I did not like my results, especially since the reason I am the way I am is mostly based on my childhood and trying to be the good girl.

My friend tried to explain to me that this is the reason why I am doing the things I am. For example, being a people pleaser (I am slowly learning to stand up for what is right and that it is OK not to please everyone).

He Still Gives Me Butterflies

He Still Gives Me Butterflies

by | Jul 11, 2020

At the end of last month, my husband and I happily celebrated our 11th anniversary together with a long weekend away. 

Yup, even with four small children at home, we find ways to make time for each other to keep our friendship and relationship strong. The moments we get to sneak away are not nearly as frequent as they used to be, but I cherish each one. From random nights we stay up after the kids have gone to bed to play cards, or when I decide to take an interest in one of his newest hobbies to watch the excited child inside of him show between the cracks of daily life. 

Don’t Tell Your Spouse

Don’t Tell Your Spouse

by | Jul 3, 2020

My husband recently returned from a deployment. During that time I found myself enjoying a new schedule and a few new habits. At nigh,t after I put my two children to bed, if I didn’t have work to do, I would enjoy a cup of coffee, a not so healthy snack, and pick a movie that would inevitably make me cry.

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