by Molly Huggins | Jun 27, 2018 | Army Life
*I wrote this just before we left in the days where we didn’t know where we would live in San Antonio and still in the throes of goodbye. I’ve got lots more to say but we’ve been going like our hair is on fire and I’m a good month behind....
by Molly Huggins | May 7, 2018 | Army Life
It’s hot outside my window right now, with the sun pouring through the trees, painting off kilter patterns on the hardwood. But if you slide down the embankment by the wood shed into the old railroad cut and follow the trail straight back to the civil war era stones,...
by Molly Huggins | Mar 4, 2018 | Army Life
We’ve made our home in the woods for just shy of three years, and so, as these things go, it is time we pull up our baby roots this summer and make our way to San Antonio, Texas. You heard it right, my Texas-flag tattooed, Rudy’s BBQ obsessed, cowboy boot wearing,...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 17, 2017 | Army Life, deployment, Husband, Our Story
(I am a week behind. This, this for Veteran’s Day, 2017). I stood in the post office the other day, boxing up the bulk of my children’s Halloween candy to send to a friend overseas. I fumbled over the customs form, a piece of paper I’ve scribbled...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 15, 2017 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Thankful
We’d been married 205 days when my body failed my first (un)born. We’d been apart for 148 of those days. My soldier left in the fall, in the brilliance of the dying leaves. He left, and I was pregnant and blissfully naive in the way you can only be when you...
by Molly Huggins | Jul 5, 2017 | Aha Moments, Army Life, Faith, Grief, Hope, Mommy Heart, Original J
Wonderful, merciful Savior. June marked what would have been the 11th birthday of our first babe and the 38th birthday of my best friend. Both were heaven bound within three months of each other, eleven and half long years past. For all of 2006, I was overwhelmed with...
