by Molly Huggins | Apr 6, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jamester, Mommy Heart, Our Story
From November 2008 to November of 2009, my husband and I were both deployed to different parts of the world. The J Girl spent the year with my older sister and her husband. She was one and a half when we dropped her off. She was two and half when we picked her up....
by Molly Huggins | Mar 13, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief
I have a heavy heart today. It’s days like these … A Blackhawk crash in Afghanistan on Monday night … that make me fearful of the days to come. That make it near impossible to bid my anxious fears goodbye. Some names have been released, some are...
by Molly Huggins | Mar 9, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Hope, Photos, Thankful
Whoever said “time marches on” was singularly unimaginative. Marching is far too rigid, far too precise, far too evenly marked and measured for a concept at once so fluid and intractable. Ask an Army wife who is counting eternal seconds between phone calls and Skype...
by Molly Huggins | Mar 1, 2013 | Army Life, Community, Faith, Husband, Our Story, Photos
[I joined an online writing community recently and this was prompted from an assignment … but also, one of the primary purposes of this blog is to tell our story … our Army life in particular, deployments, and the unique challenges and blessings that come...
by Molly Huggins | Feb 15, 2013 | Army Life, Husband, L.O.V.E.
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine ~ Song of Solomon 6:3 And oh. How I love him. Through eight-ish years of constant moves, two miscarriages, two babes living, and me pregnant {and moody} with babe number three. Through grief, four deployments and three...
by Molly Huggins | Jan 29, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Lives We Love
So it’s that time again … time to do a mental re-write. Friends are coming home … and more are leaving. So my list of “who’s safe and who’s not when the news is bad” is getting its yearly update. And this group … I spent...