by mollyhuggins | Sep 16, 2024 | Army Life, Fear, Parenting
(Trigger warning: Brief mention of suicide and self harm.) When I turned forty, I thought I said goodbye to a decade of being tired. Chuckbob wasn’t even a thought. COVID was months away. // I remember when my Second Son was just weeks old, and I was a fresh mom of...
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 | Apr 2, 2017 | Army Life, Blogging, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope
There are blue stains everywhere. The cream colored handmade wooden chair that sits at the head of our table. My bathrobe. The guest bathroom sink. I don’t even want to know how many white towels. Maybe a lifetime ago, it would have made...
by Molly Huggins | Nov 7, 2016 | Army Life, Blogging, Faith, Fear, Hope
(I’m guest posting today, at Missionary Mama – I’d love for you to stop in.) “THE WELFARE OF GOD’S KINGDOM IS NOT DEPENDENT ON THE ELECTION OF THIS KINGDOM.” This election season has proven exhausting and mostly discouraging if I am honest with you...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 5, 2016 | Aha Moments, Army Life, deployment, Fear, Grief, Hope, Husband, Our Story, Photos
I am two okay, three birthday letters behind and I have lots of parenting things to write about but this, this is the most important thing I have to say right now. I don’t know who needs to hear this but listen up, in case it is you. I’ve been an Army wife for...
by Molly Huggins | Jul 22, 2016 | Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Preemptive Love Coalition
(Every time I went to write this, fresh tragedy was overtaking my social media streams. And so this may be old news in this heartbreaking season, but it still matters.) It feels like the world is on fire – and in the dog days of this summer, I am burning from...
