This morning I was reaching out to my friends all across the planet. My heart had been missing my friends. See, with the military you meet people whom you know you will run across in the future and you know it will be great again one day to see them, but then you meet people…

My husband walked in as I was washing the last dish from dinner, I glanced up and then back down at the sink of dishes I was working on. Me- “How was your day, babe?” Him- “Busy as usual, I thought we were going out for dinner tonight?” Me- “I love you, but we can’t…

Here we are… that tiny, tiny speck of light at the end of the tunnel is much brighter and bigger now. We are getting super close to sprinting across the finish line… and when I say sprinting I mean, we are full steam ahead. J has been gone for 4 months and we are toes…

Hello friends and family! I hope this is finding you in happiness and pumpkin spice everything. Fall has officially arrived which would usually mean breaking out the jackets and long sleeves, here in Okinawa it simply means we have a few more beach trips we get to squeeze in. It has been “cooler” here the…

My husband has been gone for a good chunk of time now. The kids and I are finally finding our groove, running to the commissary, BX, beach, pool, anywhere with an AC or water to get in. Yesterday we packed up after running errands and headed to the pool. After lathering everyone in SPF 1000000,…

Summer update time! Here we are, a good month into J being gone. Although we miss him a lot we are keeping busy and time is FLYING by. After he left we had a week with my sister still on island and took advantage of the beaches and great pool we have here on base.…

“I don’t know how you do it.” I hear that more times then I can count. I hear it from strangers, friends and family. I have a simple answer, it can vary from time to time, but it usually goes something like this… “I don’t either, I just do.” We as spouses are masters of…

Hello friends and family! I write to you about to head into a super busy summer. Although school isn’t out yet, we have started to dive in (literally) heads first! Everly still has school for a couple more weeks but there are tons of fun days sprinkled in and out. Between all the field trips and…

Every time I left the house as a teenager I remember my mom telling me “Call me as soon  as you get there and please stay in touch and let me know where you are.” I would sigh and say “Yes ma’am” as inconvenienced as I was in my teenage mind , I look back…

He’s been gone for 3 weeks, a normal/usual amount of time for him to be gone. We have done this a million times and will do it a million more. After a long day wrangling 3 kids, the phone rings. Me: “Hey… what’s up?” Him: “Hey, how was your day?” “Well, I’m in the middle…