July 2013 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Welcome Home, I’m Enormous!

I’ve always thought that a baby conceived during the few sweet days of R&R has got to be evidence of one of two things: 1) Darwinism at work. Or 2) a baby who has places to go, things to do and people to see. Personally, I think of these babies as...

Published Wed, Jul 03 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Reintegration, kids, homecoming, pregnancy, military fathers

Skype and Email More Trouble Than They Are Worth

In the military community, you know you belong at an assisted living facility when you start waxing poetic about snail mail. “The real problem with military marriages today is too much communication,” said the keynote speaker at a conference I recently...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2013 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, communication, sailor, airman, soldier, marine, letters

Top Ten Ways You Can Control Military Life

I’ve learned many things in my short stint as a mil-spouse. Among them is how to give up planning, or, if not completely give it up, at least plan in pencil. What I’m also realizing, though, is that in military life where much is planned for us and much...

Published Sat, Jul 27 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Marriage & Family, military spouse, marine, control, military kids

Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face (You Were Eating Peanut Butter)

I am so hungry to see my husband’s face that I’m hollow-eyed and skinny-fingered. After five months of this deployment, I’m practically Kelly Ripa. Isn’t that crazy? I’ve been married to my husband for 26 years. I know what he looks like. I have zillions...

Published Wed, Jul 24 2013 5:40 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, facebook, Navy, sailor, pictures

In Fetal Position Over Huge and Embarrassing Debt

My fetal position moment came when I put all my debt into a non-threatening spreadsheet. Actually a team at USAA’s Financial Services did the actual task, I just provided all the bad news. Drum roll please….if you read my first blog post last month you...

Published Mon, Jul 22 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Legal & Financial, military, debt, money

Why I Will Survive A Zombie Apocalypse

As a recently married Army wife, I am still not completely used to the sheer volume of equipment that soldiers must carry with them from post to post. We have a room in our house affectionately referred to as the “TA-50 Room.” This space became necessary...

Published Mon, Jul 22 2013 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, army, zombie, uniforms, equipment

How Writing Helped a Vet Reintegrate – And How it Can Help You

My son was only a year old when I left for Afghanistan as an infantryman. When I came home, he was, at best, scared of me. My wife had problems with my return too. I didn’t know why. Maybe because she was used to taking care of everything and now I was...

Published Fri, Jul 12 2013 5:10 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Reintegration

Did Ms. Vicki Column Just Spread Bad Stereotypes?

By now I’m sure you’ve read or at least heard about Military.com’s recent “Ask Ms. Vicki” advice column “Where Is My Army Wife Pay?”. In case you haven’t, the short (less whiny) version is this: a woman claiming to be married to an Army officer wants...

Published Fri, Jul 26 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

Top 3 Ways to Help Someone Else’s Homecoming

It’s the month of homecomings here at Fort Campbell. The Brigade to which we are attached is on their way back from Afghanistan and droves of friends and acquaintances are getting hints at when the plane holding their soldier may return to US ground...

Published Sun, Jul 28 2013 8:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Reintegration

Quote: Kindred Spirits Are not so Scarce

Finding a kindred spirit is a little like finding love at first sight. When you meet someone who is the perfect friend for you there is a moment where time hangs suspended and all seems right with the world. And you just know that this person will be...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Quotes

Missing You Quotes

‘Missing you’ is the weirdest phrase. Jeremy Sherman, an evolutionary epistemologist, says that “missing” is a contranym, one word with two opposite meanings. Missing means to be either connected or disconnected. Never is that more true than...

Published Sun, Jul 21 2013 6:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Quotes, missing you, missing you quotes, missing quotes

Quote: Eyes in the Back of Your Head are Still Asleep

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably thrown your kids the old line about having eyes in the back of your head. Despite the fact that it’s one of those sayings my parents used that I swore I’d never include in my own parental vocabulary (along with “because...

Published Sun, Jul 14 2013 4:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Quotes

Quiz: If You Love Your Kids Should You Leave the Military?

Research on military kids is meant to help those most affected by more than a decade of war. Yet sometimes it seems deliberately compounded to freak out military parents. According to this latest doom and gloom report from Child Trends, an online nonprofit...

Published Tue, Jul 23 2013 4:45 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids, military children, research on military kids, Home Front Alert, military kids at risk

Who Do They Think You Are?

I get so exasperated when I hear some expert trot out the statistic that 85% of military spouses want or need to work. They make it sound like hoards of spouses in business suits are climbing over each other like a scene out of World War Z. They make...

Published Thu, Jul 25 2013 3:55 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education, job, military spouse employment, job types

YDU: I Developed a Case of Deployment Brain

Why didn’t you tell me I’d develop a case of deployment brain? When my friend was six months pregnant, she woke up, dressed and drove to work on a Saturday morning. She thought it was a Friday. When she arrived at her office the parking lot...

Published Wed, Jul 31 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, military spouse, deployment brain

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