September 2012 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

YDU: Newlywed Does Not Mean Deployment Proof

I admit I had those thoughts: I hate you Army. You are stealing my memories. You are robbing me of my first year of marriage. I didn’t think I would be like that. When my husband and I wed and moved to Fort Bliss, we knew that the unit he was currently...

Published Wed, Sep 19 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

6 Commissary Survival Tips for Your Waistline

Grocery shopping. The Commissary. “Honey, we’re out of food.” These very words may be enough to trigger a nagging sense of dread. Buying food for your family is obviously very important; you put it off long enough, someone may starve. But that doesn...

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness

9/11: Where Civilians and Military Intersect

I stood motionless at the far corner of the Memorial, moving only to blink when someone stepped into my peripheral vision, or when a beeping camera phone interrupted my efforts to trace a drop of water as it traveled from the top of the wall to the pool...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 10:14 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Avoiding Newlywed Weight Gain: MilSpouse Edition

Wedding Season: the prevalence of weddings occurring in late Spring and Summer, defined by those who have the luxury of not dealing with unpredictable military orders. By that conventional standard, “wedding season” is pretty much over now that it’s September...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness

Mil Marriage Infested With Honey Badgers?

Honey badger is nasty when he is eating cobras. Dis-gusting when chowing on bee larvae. Kinda cute while cracking pistachios. Honey badger is an absolute disaster when invading your military marriage. Ever since Randall’s “The Crazy Nastyxxx Honey...

Published Thu, Sep 13 2012 10:26 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Military Life

What Do Military iPhone Apps Say About You?

One of my many manly bosses sent out a note asking what military apps I liked. He is making a list. So I looked at my phone. Uh oh. I’m kinda skimpy in the military iPhone apps department. Where my husband has military apps for Defense News and Navy PRT...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 10:05 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment

YDU: Military Wife Is NOT Like Being a Single Mom

Before I married a military man, I did the research. I figured that since I was already a single mom for over 10 years, it wouldn’t be that much of a change in my lifestyle. As a single mom, I was used to budgeting on my own, used to going places with...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

Is It Time To Get Pregnant?

These are the big milestones I’ve wanted as long as I can remember: graduate high school, go off to college, start a career, get married, and have a baby. Not everyone takes this path in life of course, or even wants to, but these are the things...

Published Thu, Sep 06 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

Military Wife Quote: Get Help

Get help. Get help. GET HELP. Help yourself by helping others. The Lord helps those who help themselves. BE the help that other people need. If you need a helping hand, it is at the other end of your arm. This week I was struck by how strongly we military...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Quotes

Gut Check: Who Are These People?

Most of us know that feeling when something just isn’t right. It’s much like that initial jolt you get when you remember the seafood casserole you ate earlier in the day may have been left out of the refrigerator just a little too long. As time goes on...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 5:03 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Legal & Financial

Top 10 Super Powers All MilSpouses Need

I’m not a big science fiction fan, but I have to admit I loved the television show “Heroes.” I’d watch Hiro Nakamura time travel, and my mind would wander to all the places I would go if I could manipulate time and space. I envied Nathan Petrelli as he...

Published Sat, Sep 15 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Quiz: Should You Prepare for Military Divorce?

Is it possible to “prepare” to stay married to a military member? Or do more military spouses need to prepare to be divorced? What if there was a quiz like this to sort you out: Does your whole family look forward to deployment as a time of...

Published Tue, Sep 18 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

Awesome Christmas Decoration Contest for Military

While it gives me great pain to talk about Christmas in the middle of September, let’s go ahead and admit it – you’re probably already thinking about the holidays, just like me. This year we’re going to be minus our resident Soldier over the Blessed Day...

Published Thu, Sep 20 2012 4:36 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

13 Songs to Avoid During a Deployment

So the shoe has indeed dropped. Two days ago we learned that it is time for my husband to once again go play in the sand. Knowing it was coming, we weren’t all that surprised and are faring better than if it came out of the blue. The painful part: it...

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Humor

Will the Corps say “Good Bye” to PCSing?

The idea of living at one duty station for more than three years makes me feel antsy. So I’m feeling pretty good right now about being Army instead of Marine Corps. The Marine Corps is considering a policy change that would allow Marines and their families...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2012 11:52 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Spouse & Family News

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