Deployment

Mother’s Day During A Deployment

May 12, 2012

I know from my own personal experience how hard any holiday or special day is without a loved one. Despite how you feel about holidays or days that have become more commercialized then anything I still wanted to take the time to tell you that this Mother’s Day if you are without your loved one [...]

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Get The Tissues Ready: Marine Sees Six Year Old Son With Cerebral Palsy Walk For The First Time During Homecoming

May 10, 2012

I am a sucker for these homcoming videos but some of them take the cake in terms of being tear jerkers and for me this video via Yahoo was one of them. Watch as Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney sees his six year old son walk for the first time. Cooney’s wife said they kept the [...]

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Do You Have Virtual Romps During Deployments?

April 9, 2012

I know you’re like “OMG Krystel Really? Come on don’t act like it hasn’t happened! We all know something has to keep the fire lit during those year long separations. Lifetime Moms recently asked me and two other military wives this question and here is what we had to say: Okay so maybe you don’t [...]

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Must See for Pet Lovers: Latest Pet Military Welcome Home Video Goes Viral

March 29, 2012

As usual I am doing my normal web surfing and I came across the cutest video on Yahoo of a dog named Chuck greeting his soldier (owner) who had just returned from a * month tour of duty overseas. Although I am not the biggest pet fan this certainly ties in with the saying” Dogs [...]

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Guest Post: Life As A Reservist Family

March 27, 2012

Jen is the busy mom to three boys ages 1,9, and 12. She is the proud wife to a Marine GySgt and has been very active as a military spouse. She is currently going through her 6th deployment.  Jen has a passion in working with military families and writes about her daily life at her [...]

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Deployment Secrets

March 19, 2012

I always thought my husband had pretty easy deployments and never experienced any major violent or life threatening encounters. Recently it came up in one of our everyday conversations that my husband had in fact had a two very dangerous encounters on his first deployment that he never told me about. At first I didn’t [...]

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