Deployments can be hard, let’s tackle this ugly monster together. Today’s story this spouse is President of the FRG and her husband serves in the navy. Here’s her story… My husband left for a 9 month deployment in June of 2014. The DAY he left, my youngest found some scissors upstairs (my husband was cutting tags from his shirts that morning before he left and accidentally left them out on the bathroom sink.) Without realizing the scissors were there, I sent my kiddos up to our room to watch a movie while I prepared dinner. 10 minutes later, my sweet little 2.5 year old came down with half of her head almost bald. I freaked out of course and couldn’t believe it! She cut SO much of her hair off. [Continue Reading…]
Deployment Stories: A Mother’s Promise
Deployment stories is a way for military spouses to connect with other spouse, encouraging and inspiring stories of trials and victories during deployment. Letting them know if this spouse can do it, I can do it! In this story, this is spouse is a mom to 3 children and her husband is in the navy. She shares a story about keeping her promise to her daughter starting school, while her spouse is on deployment. Our oldest daughter was 5 years old the first time my husband went on deployment. We had just moved to CA and she was just starting Kindergarten so her separation anxiety was at an all time high. She made me promise that I would be there everyday to drop her off and pick her up from [Continue Reading…]
Deployment Diaries: A teenagers struggle
This spouse shares a touching story of how her husband went on deployment and how her son, being a teenager handle his dad being away. A lot of military spouses with children at any age has to deal with not only for themselves the emotional strained of their spouse being away, but how do you handle your children’s emotions when it comes to deployment? I Share different stories of how this spouse made it, and how other spouses can give others hope that it won’t be like this forever. I pray this story encourages you to continue during the rough times during deployment. In 2011, my family endured our 7th deployment. By this time, we would have thought as a family we would have had it down. However, each [Continue Reading…]
Deployment Dairies: Twins and no drivers license
My husband has been in the military for about 15 years. This is a new season in our lives right now, he’s getting promoted!!! Because of this, I started to think back to when I first married my husband and through A Lot of trial and errors, I learned my way of navigating the military world. Deployments, deployments, deployments… When I first got married my husband went on SO MANY deployments that it literally broke me, I was devastated, I felt like… “this is what the military is about? I didn’t get married to be single. Being part of the military, deployments, long work hours and frequent moves, add stress to our marriages, but most damaging is the emotional distance that results from living separate lives sometimes. The Communication is [Continue Reading…]
How to stay calm during Deployments (Part 2)
In connection to Part 1, where I talked about getting married into the military, specifically the Marine Corps, The fact remains that there is no ONE place on the Web that tells you what to do when you get married! And there’s no manual that the Marines get, either, telling them what to do. So In Part 1, I gave tips, tricks and a FREE Printable checklist paperwork to use to make the transcension easier. Part 2, I will be talking about deployments. What to do, What to prepare for, what to look for and how to stay CALM during the process. Lets go…. Deployment SUCKS! It’s horrible to spend this much time and effort thinking the “What If’s”, worrying, getting depressed, etc. These are things that need to be done, [Continue Reading…]
How to stay calm during a deployment (Part 1)
Any relationship is exciting and challenging, but it only magnifies when your dealing with a man in uniform. If you just married your man who is a United States Marine, you’re in for a WILD a ride. The fact remains that there is no ONE place on the Web that tells you what to do when you get married! And there’s no manual that the Marines get, either, telling them what to do. Here is a list of tips and tricks that will make the transcension from a normal calm life to a WILD roller coaster ride that never stops! When you first get married to a man/women in the military there is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done and it can be overwhelming! I Know, from experience [Continue Reading…]
The Deployment Dare
OK! so I came across this website from someones face book page, while browsing around, (sorry not sure who it was) talking about things to do while your hubby is deployed…. Someone suggested doing a Deployment Dare! I thought it sounded fun, and so I looked it up and came across this website called: Excellent Praise Worthy They give EXCELLENT biblical information for marriage, military, info on being a Godly wife, which is awesome! Being part of a military marriage deployments and frequent moves add stress to our marriages, but most damaging is the emotional distance that results from living separate lives sometimes. Communication is not only long-distance, it is often less intimate, strained, and unreliable. So starting a deployment dare can help strengthen the marriage even more. So [Continue Reading…]
