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Anticipating Homecoming
As a military family, there is no moment quite like homecoming – anticipation, relief, anxiety – but without fail it is not as simple as the heart wrenching viral videos might lead you to believe. As...
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A Time Of Growth
The end of the year is a wonderful time of year for both reflecting on the past year and looking forward to the next one. I reached out to my blogging friends and invited them to share what they...
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3 Things I’ve Learned During Reintegration
Even with multiple deployments under our belt, each separation (and reintegration) is unique. Over the years, I’ve received plenty of raised eyebrows and shocked faces when I shared that my husband and...
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Finding Your Life Line: Photography
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line: Writing
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line: Working From Home
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line: Online Community
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line – Real Estate
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Keeping Me In Sight
Marriage is hard. Marriage to the military adds another layer of challenge. And it’s okay to say that out loud. In the early days of my relationship with my soldier husband, I marveled that I had found...
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Pearls and Fine China
Pearls and Fine China might seem like odd advice for today’s military spouse. But it’s the core of the best advice I’ve ever received. Looking forward at 2016, I’ve been going through some old blog...
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Reaching For Calm
As plans change, we have choices. We can fight it, dragging our heels and holding on to what we’re leaving. Or we can choose to move forward. I’m choosing forward – even when it hurts. 10 years as a...
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State of the Move
6 weeks into planning and two weeks until we pack our things, this move has run me ragged. The strategy at this point in the military move is survival and sanity. I wasn’t thrilled when we received...
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PCS Tales: The Quiet Of An Empty House
There’s a point in every PCS where I have to simply take a moment, in the quiet of an empty house, and acknowledge all the things we’re losing. In my 10+ years as a military spouse, I’ve never minded...
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Embracing the opportunity to shift priorities
Even when change is a struggle and not by choice, it might be just what we need to embrace the opportunity to shift priorities. I haven’t been shy about the fact that I wasn’t thrilled about this move...
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Find Your Life Line: Writing
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line: Working From Home
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line: Online Community
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Find Your Life Line – Real Estate
When I asked how I find the time/energy to juggle my varied obligations or when I bother to sleep, I simply explain that when you have something you LOVE in your life the inevitable hard days are worth...
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Keeping Me In Sight
Marriage is hard. Marriage to the military adds another layer of challenge. And it’s okay to say that out loud. In the early days of my relationship with my soldier husband, I marveled that I had found...
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Reaching For Calm
As plans change, we have choices. We can fight it, dragging our heels and holding on to what we’re leaving. Or we can choose to move forward. I’m choosing forward – even when it hurts. 10 years as a...
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