January 2010 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

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

Box Hoarders Anonymous

Hi, I'm Marine Wife. And I hoard boxes, specifically original packaging. I have the box for the computer we bought 3 moves ago. Ditto for the Japanese and German china my mother bought over 30 years ago. (So clearly, this...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 4:41 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

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

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

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

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

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

Not On the Same Page

Guard Wife wrote a month ago about missed messages, and at the time I didn't have anything to add in the comments. But I do now! My husband and I have still been working on a middle name for our...

Published Thu, Jan 07 2010 8:58 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Family Matters

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

January 2010 - Spouse Buzz

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