December 2009 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Boy Issues

This deployment has been weird. Partly because, well, I'm kind of tired. And by "kind of" I mean "really." A lot. I also feel guilty about being so tired, because even though Air Force Guy has been gone more than...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 2:59 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment, Day in the Life of a Milspouse, Family Matters, Military Brats

Bring on 2010!!!

I love the New Year!! Every year!! I get very excited at the prospect of a new beginning. 365 days filled with potential and limited only by my imagination (at least in the beginning..sometimes, reality does intervene but only sometimes)....

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 9:45 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Another Surge: Taking Your Temperature

I was asked this afternoon for military family reaction to "the idea of a surge in Afghanistan," so the best thing to do is ask you what you think so people can read it for themselves. We have a longstanding...

Published Tue, Dec 01 2009 2:56 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

I went to Disney World...

...and it just might be the happiest place on Earth. I know I was particularly happy when I realized how much we saved due to Disney's Armed Forces Salute. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time Disney...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 3:14 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Military Brats, Finances, Travel

We Have a Winner

OK, military poker game? Bonnie Hoagland wins. She just flat-out wins. Period. Military Wife Prepares to Send Three Sons, Husband to Afghanistan Three of her four sons and her husband will soon deploy to war-torn Afghanistan while her fourth and...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 3:08 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Miscellaneous

'The Art of Being a Military Child'

The Military Child Education Coalition has put out information regarding the 2010 Call for the Arts. Military children pre-k to 12th grade are eligible to participate. The MCEC's 2010 Call for the Arts: The Art of Being a Military Child...

Published Sun, Dec 13 2009 2:46 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Military Brats

Blue Christmas

The Dark Prince is deployed now. We're about 5 weeks into his deployment and things are kind of calming down here. Kind of. Even though I'm over the craptacular specialness of the first month of deployment, there's another hurdle I...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 12:46 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Militarese to English FAIL

When Air Force Guy came home on R & R it was great. He came bearing gifts (yay! early Christmas!) and he came bearing illness. AFG always comes home from deployment bearing some kind of illness to pass around the...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 8:36 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse, Civilians, Humor

Sometimes, it's the smallest of things ...

A while back she lost her dad, a world-class Air Force test pilot. Probably due to him flying around and through those elusive neutrons that were plentiful in the late '50's. Now she's watching her mom disappear to dementia and...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 10:31 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

Making Memories

I have an issue that I've been struggling with during this deployment: I can't (and don't want to) suspend all the fun things that happen in our world, but I hate making memories that don't include my husband. Annual traditions...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 7:30 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

The Final Challenge

As I stated in the last post on this topic, this year was definitely a learning experience. We'll host one month, winner takes all each month challenges next time we do this. My visions are often grander than what can...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 1:17 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: 2009 SpouseBUZZ Challenge

Call Both Phones

Dear Husband, We have been over this a thousand times. If you call the cell phone and there's no answer, either call back in two minutes or call the house phone. But if you leave another message on my cell...

Published Thu, Dec 03 2009 9:41 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

A Holiday Is Not a Date On the Calendar

By the time Christmas rolls around, I will be too pregnant to travel. My family is trying to decide how to make sure I'm not alone. Both my father and brother will have to work on Christmas. My father suggested...

Published Wed, Dec 09 2009 4:35 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

It's All Blocked

Dear Army, You are on my list these days. Just so you know. First you take my husband for my entire pregnancy. Fine. I can handle that, because I am a big girl. Then you send him somewhere where umpteenjillion...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 7:39 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

No Good Deed Goes Unfreakedoutabout

I take back what I just said about my husband: it seems he did indeed get me a Christmas gift this year. And he was so stealthy about it that I thought it was credit card fraud. We had an...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 1:08 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Family Matters

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Bring on 2010!!!

Another Surge: Taking Your Temperature

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We Have a Winner

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Blue Christmas

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Sometimes, it's the smallest of things ...

Making Memories

The Final Challenge

Call Both Phones

A Holiday Is Not a Date On the Calendar

It's All Blocked

No Good Deed Goes Unfreakedoutabout