by Molly Huggins | Dec 5, 2015 | Army Life, Husband, Our Story
(For the beginning of the story, read part 1 and part 2.) Shaping my trajectory was a deep, abiding love for all things aviation. Top Gun was largely to blame for this. I was eight, rattling around my great-grandmother’s basement with my cousins during our family...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 17, 2015 | Army Life, Dreams, Fear, Our Story
To read Part 1, please click here… I have a half-brother, eleven years older than me, who, until college, was unable to have much contact with us. I spent most of my young childhood desperately wishing for an older brother. Two sisters just did not measure up at...
by Molly Huggins | May 31, 2015 | Army Life, Community, Lives We Love, Photos, Thankful
I’m writing this on the last Sunday in a place I so dearly love, to the people I so dearly love. It’s a familiar view-the second seat on the third row from the back in the left middle section. It practically has my name it. It has a prime view of my...
by Molly Huggins | May 30, 2015 | Army Life, Community, Faith, Fear, Photos
Oh friends. I am still having ALL THE EMOTIONS. We moved from our dear 403 house, our home for the last three years, into the hotel last weekend. I very much loved this house, but what grieves me more than leaving the walls that literally held me up through a very...
by Molly Huggins | May 24, 2015 | Army Life, Grief, Jamester, Original J, Our Story, Photos
It is surprising how grief changes over the years. Some things I know, I expect. The edges of the wound soften over time. The fear fades, mostly. We aren’t sad every day. Some things I don’t. Nine years and change later, you see a picture on Facebook of a Volkswagon...
by Molly Huggins | May 22, 2015 | Army Life, Photos
I’m working on expectation management these days. That is a common term between the husband and I. When big things are coming, we try hard to sit down ahead of time and work out what the other person is thinking so we have a rough idea of what to expect when the...
