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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

In Which airforcewife Attacks a Challenge (With Your Help)

I have been ignoring certain signs at my gym for the past few weeks. You see, these signs are for a competition called "The Feather Weight Challenge" and while the prizes for most weight lost seem pretty cool, the whole...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 7:07 AM by SpouseBUZZ

Filed under: Fit Club

It's The Little Things

Most of the time, I deal with the absence of a spouse pretty well. I think. But occasionally, some odd thing will make the absence feel huge. Tonight, I went to a kids' school event and walked out with a...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 12:18 PM by SpouseBUZZ

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

Does Military Count As “Great American Worker?”

We gotta win this contest. Every year, Brawny Industrial Wipers salutes the efforts of the unsung heroes of American industry. Usually the grand prize of an F150 Ford truck is awarded to a plant manager, a floor supervisor, an assembly line operator,...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment

Military Child Quote: The Value of a Moment

Kids complain. A lot. About everything. Mom, I’m bored. I’m tired. I’m hungry. I don’t want to leave the park. My legs are broken and I can’t walk another step. I don’t want to do this, that or the other. It’s not always easy to teach young children to...

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

Filed under: Military Life

The Deployment Effect: Pet Edition

My husband and I took home a special little dog from the local Humane Society on Halloween, 2011. Ziggy (who we expanded to Ziggy Stardust in honor of my husband’s love of David Bowie) was a 15 lbs., 4-ish-year-old mutt with the cutest little bandit face...

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

Filed under: Deployment, Pets

Video: Do you Understand PTSD?

When my wife deployed a couple years ago my biggest concern was that she would come home with some form of post traumatic stress disorder. The idea of PTSD scared the crap out of me because I didn’t know anything about it. I laid awake at night...

Published Thu, Apr 11 2013 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Wounded Spouse, Videos

Military Wife Quote: I am not a Wife and I am not a Widow

No matter what your spouse’s experience in war is – no matter how simple or how harrowing – he is going to come home different in some way. Time equals change. And time apart is change apart. For some, catching up to those changes is a short process,...

Published Sun, Apr 14 2013 9:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life, Quotes

Why Do We Keep Deploying? There Is No Answer

My kids and I just took my husband to the airport for a yet another deployment. We dropped him off the curb. There was no ceremony, no send off, no acknowledgement that we were about to, yet again, embark on The Unhappy Days. But we knew — even...

Published Sat, May 23 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Here’s Why You Should Marry Him, MilSo

Dear Military Spouse To Be: Just like a woman awaiting to give birth for the first time, you aren’t truly ready for military life. You can’t possibly know how much your heart can love, and conversely, how much it can ache. Recently one of my favorite...

Published Thu, May 28 2015 5:32 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

Secrets You Can Use To Start Your Own Business

How do you take the talents and skills that you have and turn them into real money? That’s the question radio personality and social media marketer Kristen Robinson poses to the ten successful military women in business at her free virtual summit starting...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2015 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education

The Importance of Making Me a Priority

I look up in the mirror and think to myself, “My God, you look like you’ve been snorting coke!” When we moved here so my husband could attend The Basic School at Quantico, I was left jobless. I transitioned from working full-time, feeling like an independent...

Published Fri, May 24 2013 1:48 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Poll: Murphy’s Law and Deployment Destruction

Murphy’s Law of Deployment states that whatever appliance can break down during deployment will break down. And the corollary is that it will break in conjunction with some other appliance/tool/vehicle just to maximize your ultimate craziness. While...

Published Tue, May 28 2013 4:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Poll

Army Couple Marries, Risks Jail Time

Will the Army need an actual litmus test to determine whether sexual activity is love or fraternization or full-blown assault? Sometimes it seems a reliable test would help. This week the Killeen Daily Herald reported on the case of First Lieutenant Karnesha...

Published Thu, May 30 2013 5:27 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

United Through Reading: Our Favorite Stories

Our staff got talking about our favorite stories about United Through Reading sent by our readers on our Facebook page. We love to hear about how a United Through Reading DVD —a video-recording of a deployed service member reading a storybook—connects...

Published Sat, Jun 01 2013 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

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