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I love pulling into my driveway, and not just because it means I’m home and can change into my comfy sweatpants.
When I park my car, I’m looking right at my flower garden. If I may be so bold, it’s pretty awesome. There’s a riotous rosebush that I never prune, peonies (because I always plant peonies), and lilies.
I’ve been a military spouse for what my husband commonly refers to as “a hot minute.” You would think that after all this time, I would stop being surprised at all the things that come with military life.
But nope. Experiences like random TDYs, changes to our no-plan plan, promotions, future duty stations… it almost always catches me a little bit off guard; I’ve grown significantly in my ability to be flexible.
There is one aspect of the military life that I’ve experienced over and over again, but yet it still surprises me every single time.
It typically occurs at the military ball.
If you have a training program for your fitness routine, you probably spend a lot of time focused on it. The following is a technique used by Tina Muir which I want to share with you. It’s so easy to think that training is only physical but it’s also training your mind, and we often overlook that mental focus.
Deployments are a challenge and each has different struggles. Almost anyone who has been through one, or half a dozen, knows that.
Our lives often change abruptly, and no matter how much planning has been done, a new and unknown monkey wrench gets thrown into the mix.
You might recall that last month we kicked off a mini-series about what to do when the going gets tough as a milspouse.
We had such a good time with it that I didn’t want to stop there. So today, I’ll be sharing another one of my personal “coping” tips when things are harder than normal for our military spouse lives. And, of course, we’ll also take another look at some great ideas shared by our AWN followers.
This month, families all over the world are celebrating Month of the Military Child.
It didn’t hit me that I’m raising a military child until the other day when my daughter was admiring a new piece of wall décor I recently purchased. It’s a wooden board that hangs in our living room that reads, “Home is where the Army sends us.”
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