December 2009 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Me, Me, Me, Me

That's it. I can't go out until my husband gets home. Or I need to learn better social skills. Because lately, everywhere I go, all we ever talk about is me. How long has he been gone? When is he...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 6:15 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment, Day in the Life of a Milspouse, PCS

How do you define "accomplishment?"

I read She of the Sea's post about how we milspouses manage to do things (while our spouse is deployed) that appear, at first, too overwhelming. Then we accomplish these things and often wonder how in the world we did...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 9:04 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

We Are Amazing

Through each deployment, there are days of despair: nothing is going well, and you feel like you haven't accomplished anything, and it seems like deployment will never end. Then there are the Blue Ribbon Days. The days where you accomplish...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 7:21 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment, Day in the Life of a Milspouse

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

Merry Christmas from Afghanistan

I am sure we all spent some time yesterday thinking about deployed servicemembers and hoping they had even a little bit of Christmas. In ways large and small, we've all wished them a Merry Christmas. And they wished us Merry...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 8:15 AM by SpouseBUZZ

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

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

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

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

Making the Funnies

I spend enough time online and know enough about communication to understand that many things, when written, do not end up being translated properly by the receiver. Usually, I am apt to point this out to the receiver (usually my...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 10:12 AM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Oh Starry Night IV

It's windy. Loads of dust in the air. The air isn't crisp, it's down right cold. There are aircraft flying and at times the noise is so all-encompassing, that you can't think straight. And "we're supposed to sleep under these...

Published Fri, Dec 25 2009 5:48 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

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

"Listening Sessions" Survey

Officials Seek Feedback on Family Programs Defense officials have launched virtual “listening sessions” in hopes of gaining more insight into the effectiveness of military family programs, a Pentagon official said today. The anonymous, online survey solicits...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 4:13 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Miscellaneous

Abigail

Recently, I've been watching the HBO mini-series John Adams on DVD. (Yes, I know, I'm a bit behind the times. I'm slow that way.) On several occasions, I've been struck by things done or said by Abigail Adams. She was...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 8:08 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Marriage

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