There may be no better time for empowerment than when faced with a looming deployment or when you are in the thick of one.
Join our Mission: Milspouse team as we share all our tips, lessons learned, best practices for coping, and our hearts in solidarity with you in all things deployment. Whether you are preparing for your first one or you navigating your 7th, we have the resources you need to thrive in one of the most challenging aspects of milspouse life.
Our resources span the gamut: From that first moment when your service member says “I’ve got news,” to establishing a battle rhythm in those first few weeks, to parenting solo, and to reintegrating after that homecoming kiss… We have resources to guide you every step of the way. We are raw, vulnerable, experienced, and ready to support you through this season!
It’s hard to believe December has rolled around yet again. As some of my friends are celebrating Christmas this year with their service member deployed, I’ve been reflecting on my experience of missed family moments due to military life.
Even though we have been through three deployments, they have fallen in such a way that, generally speaking, we have gotten to spend the holidays together.
My husband is currently deployed.
Before they left out, they received orders with a set number of days on them. It was put out that anything beyond those days would take the approval of a high-ranking officer. All of that sounds really great, and from my recent experience, soldiers have been returning in that originally publicized window.
However, I’ve learned that orders are nothing more than a piece of paper.
Want to know one of the things I love most about the military spouse community?
Hands down, it’s the supportive nature.
You find yourself asking…
“Where do I…?”
“When do I…?”
“How do I…?”
I was recently watching The Breakfast Club, and as many of you know, something that sets it apart from most movies from the ’80s (apart from it being a John Hughes film) is the song at the end—“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds. This song is really an iconic and defining piece from this time in history and is basically synonymous with this movie.
Summer in San Francisco isn’t your stereotypical steamy, sunny California summer. In fact, August here is more accurately called “Fogust.”
Needless to say, my boots get more use than any of my summer sandals and more of my pictures on Instagram than I care to admit have some type of #iliveinacloud hashtag.
Skype, email, Facebook, texting, and phone calls, among other technology, has made keeping in touch with a deployed service member much easier. Somewhere in this mix of communication, a real handwritten letter has lost its luster.
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