Deployment, you WILL NOT get the best of me because you are not worth my best! My family deserves the best I can give them and a deployment is not a crisis, it is an opportunity to shine and GROW. So, deployment, Though you seem large and looming, though you come and go in my [...]

Submitted by Nancy Sheridan, Fort Irwin, CA I ran into a friend of mine while I was out with my family and it was a sweet run in…when we were parting she said I don’t know how you moms of multiple children do it! Well…for those of you who see me smiling with my children [...]

Feelings of grief come and go. Sometimes they surprise me when they return after a period of joy and relative peace. Grief hit me smack in the face on Monday morning. The past few months have been full of reasons for grieving, I think I’m in a season of it. There have been deaths (loved [...]

I realized today that we are finishing month seven of our deployment year and felt extraordinarily tired.  After having three sick children last week, and trying to catch up on life this week, I found myself turning the cell phone off and laying next to my three year old for nap.  As I drifted off to sleep [...]

Last year, when my husband was deployed, we had a (then) single young woman, Carrie, come to live with us. This was a huge help to me because it gave me a little more flexibility as a mom of young boys, and also provided some adult conversation every now and then. Best of all, though, [...]

Submitted by Erin Nonaka, Fort Bragg, NC Do you struggle with keeping your rhythm the same when your man is away?  I sure do.  Just the fact that it is 12:08 am and I am not in bed is one of them.  I find that I try to fit too much into a day or [...]

Submitted by Erin Nonaka, Fort Bragg, NC So last week I had a bad day.  You know one of those deployment days when you wish you could just crawl back into bed and start over.  However, the fact that I had a long list of things to include laundry, dishes, errands, gardening, and volunteer work to be done, [...]