January 2010 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

First Things First: Children

The search for parenting resources is an effort that I have spent many hours on. The children’s questions started pouring in before the soldiers left our house. I anticipated my near future. After the guests had left and it was...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 6:13 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

When DH retires

Do you ever daydream about what your house will look like when your spouse finally retires/separates from the military and you stop moving? I read magazines with lots of great decorating and organizational ideas (and I NEED organization in my...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 8:51 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Yeah, Sure

My husband is scheduled to come home next month. Whooo! He's been talking about the day that they come home: travel arrangements, return to work, leave schedules, etc. For obvious reasons (as in: it won't stay the same), I tried...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 7:32 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

Elbow Room

Yesterday, I was telling a retired Army spouse that Stretch was getting ready to go another trip. She asked if he could take her husband with him. I totally understood what she meant. We laughed about the need for these...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 9:40 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Marriage

A Due Date Is As Sketchy As Redeployment...

Planning for a baby to arrive is as bad as planning for the end of a deployment... In 2008 my husband was supposed to arrive home from Iraq on a Monday. Instead we got updates all week long about when...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 5:22 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment, Family Matters

Goodbye, Elephant

Wow! That is quite a post before this one. I am completely in awe of Jackie and her story and how much she has to share with us, to the point that it feels selfish and shallow to write about...

Published Sat, Jan 16 2010 3:34 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Welcome New SurvivorBUZZ Readers, and SpouseBUZZ Readers!

SurvivorBUZZ was created to offer support for survivors of fallen military members. No topic is off limits. You can come here and discuss your experiences with others who can identify with you and what you're going through. The journey that...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 5:20 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

Operation Patriot

You know what I like about this, besides the obvious? That they included the girlfriends.

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 6:18 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

We Cannot Send Touch

This morning I remembered an old post I wrote on missing our spouses with all five senses. I started thinking about the flip-side, how we can send them little bits of the homefront to satisfy their senses as well. In...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 5:23 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

Can Everyone Hack It?

I've been meaning to write about a conversation I had with another military spouse for about a year now, but I couldn't seem to craft a post that I thought was satisfactory. The topic proved more challenging than I had...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 5:21 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

Fit Club: Negative Nellie

I started doing the Couch to 5K (C25K) program last fall. I stuck with it pretty faithfully. For awhile. Then life and the holidays got the better of me. In mid-November, we went to DisneyWorld for a week. The following...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 10:20 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Fit Club

For Civilians

SpouseBUZZ is a site by military spouses for military spouses, but I'd like to write this post for someone else - civilians. I live in a civilian community right now, and I've been lucky. I am surrounded by people who...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 5:56 AM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Invasion of the Milspouse Mii

I've been wanting a Wii for ages, only because I was interested in the Wii Fit program. Apparently, I was a good girl last year because Santa left a Wii under the tree. I had almost as much fun designing...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 5:54 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Introducing SurvivorBUZZ

A few weeks ago, I had an eye-opening conversation with a widow named Jackie. Jackie's husband was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber. A female suicide bomber. I've talked to numerous Gold Star Wives over the past few years,...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 7:12 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

An Open Question

Just how many unit, deployment, event, and military themed t-shirts does one service-member need? Seriously. I really need to know this. Because 17 years from first signing the dotted line, I'm finally going through these things and I'm pretty...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 3:46 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

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First Things First: Children

When DH retires

Yeah, Sure

Elbow Room

A Due Date Is As Sketchy As Redeployment...

Goodbye, Elephant

Welcome New SurvivorBUZZ Readers, and SpouseBUZZ Readers!

Operation Patriot

We Cannot Send Touch

Can Everyone Hack It?

Fit Club: Negative Nellie

For Civilians

Invasion of the Milspouse Mii

Introducing SurvivorBUZZ

An Open Question