Army Life Archives ~ Page 12 of 16 ~ The Grace Between

Beloved….{5 Minute Fridays}.

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...

Thanks … again.

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...

Guest blogging today …

We’ve moved five times in seven years. Five. We’ve lived through four deployments between the two of us. We’ve had months to prepare, we’ve had years, and we’ve had weeks. We’ve had days where we didn’t know where home would be two weeks later … or what country the...

On War and Weariness

“I have a confession to make. I am weary of war. I feel vaguely traitorous to my fellow military wives in spilling my fatigue. But oh I am tired. Our snapshot of Army life falls somewhere in the middle on the hardship scale. Seven and a half years together....

A snapshot of community: Jana

Parenting is hard on a good day. Add bad days, and deployment days, and it can feel disheartening and overwhelming. Meet my internet friend Jana and the community that surrounded her on a bad deployment day. My husband is active duty Air Force. Two years ago he was...

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