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, was [...]

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 don’t [...]

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, kept [...]