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To Christmas Card or Not To Christmas Card?

I get fierce Christmas amnesia. It’s sort of like 50 First Dates on eggnog and a bottle of Jack. I wake up the day after Thanksgiving and totally forget everything I ever knew the previous 11 months about the misery of Christmas. So I make my Christmas...

Published Mon, Dec 02 2013 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Military Life

Go ahead, punk...

Recently, I was reminded of a fringe benefit to having my own personal Marine: Last week, the girls and I returned home a day afterStretch left on TAD (TDY for the Army folks and a business trip for any civilian...

Published Mon, Aug 17 2009 10:40 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Deployment Humor, or Not.....

I was talking with a girlfriend and fellow Army Wife last week. We were stationed together two years ago and were just catching up on each other's lives. Her husband is currently deployed and she was filling me in on...

Published Thu, Aug 13 2009 7:43 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

It is official, this house hates me

DH left again for a short TDY again. I resigned to the fact, and looked at the positives. Less laundry, less food preparation, chick flicks, I convinced myself all was well. Until.. I went to flush the toilet and nothing...

Published Wed, Aug 12 2009 8:37 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Crossroad...

We are pretty well settled in to our new duty station. Our PCS went rather smoothly, surprisingly enough, with a few hiccups along the way. We were able to visit family and take our time getting here. We have wonderful...

Published Sun, Aug 09 2009 7:35 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Lean On Me

I have to admit it, I ultra-personalize my phone. With all the moving and what-not, sometimes my phone is the only thing I get to truly reflect me on a semi-permanent basis. I have ring tones, answer tones, phone bling......

Published Fri, Aug 07 2009 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Thanks, Murphy

Here's another version of Murphy's Law for the milspouse: When your husband has been deployed for three weeks with limited communications options so far, and he finally gets a computer and gets to IM for the first time of the...

Published Tue, Aug 04 2009 1:40 PM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Day in the Life of a Milspouse

Mail Takes Too Long

I'm having mail anxiety. It just takes too darn long for the mail to travel overseas. And I'm nervous about jinxing myself. It's happened before... My second pregnancy started right before a deployment too. I blogged: I wrote two weeks...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2009 5:48 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Deployment

Q & A Invitation

You can Ask The Chairman. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wants to hear from you. The nation’s top military officer wants to hear what’s on your mind — via YouTube. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen,...

Published Fri, Aug 21 2009 5:21 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Miscellaneous

Horror of Horrors

Well, first I disgrace the milspouse community with this little incident. Didn't think I could top that one, but imagine my horror when I took this PCS quiz and found out I'm "mostly" ready for a PCS move, not "totally"...

Published Tue, Aug 25 2009 7:12 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: PCS

New MilFam Survey: Everything is Peachy?

I had the privilege of sitting in the United States Congressional Auditorium yesterday to hear the results of the BSF’s most recent project, the Military Family Lifestyle Survey Report. I looked around the room and knew that the back of each head...

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

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Spouse & Family News

Military Wife Quote: My Mother Had a Great Deal of Trouble

I save all my Mother’s Day cards from my kids like evidence. Because someday these three will be old enough not to love me sooooooooo extravagantly. All I hope is that they will remember me the way Mark Twain remembered his mother. The author of...

Published Sun, May 13 2012 10:08 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Quotes

Video: MilSpouse Deployment Anthem

Warning: this will probably make you cry. Military spouse and musician Olivia Perez-Breland composed this heart wrenching deployment … and then, just to show that she can do it all, directed, produced and edited the video we’ve linked below...

Published Mon, May 14 2012 11:10 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment, Videos

The End of an Era - Changing My Venn Diagram

Yesterday my 6 year old son told me something that nearly made my heart stop. "Mom," he said. "I think I want a normal haircut now." I know that I had to have let out a good gasp at that...

Published Fri, Aug 28 2009 5:50 AM by SpouseBUZZ

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

The power of persistence

Remember this? I had another conversation with the same woman as before about the master HOA's requirements before I worked out in the gym room at the clubhouse this morning. They were willing to accept Stretch's military ID in lieu...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2009 7:55 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Civilians

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