by Molly Huggins | Oct 30, 2014 | Army Life, Blogging, Faith, Hope, Our Story, Preemptive Love Coalition
For part one of this story, CLICK HERE. (Portions of this are republished from a piece I wrote in 2012 before the presidential election. Two years removed, my emotions are unchanged.) My great-great-great grandfather was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War....
by Molly Huggins | Jul 2, 2014 | Army Life, Community, deployment, Fear, Grief, Hope, Original J
It’s July now in TN, a never ending tide of 100 degree days that wash over us in a haze of sparklers, sweat, and the red, white, and blue. In this town, though, it’s cut with shots of gold. Gold stars to be exact. They come up on you quickly, a subdued gut...
by Molly Huggins | May 10, 2014 | Army Life, Faith, Hope
So somewhere in the last two weeks, in the whirlwind of crazy that it was, it was my turn at Christian Military Wives to write. Y’all. That is where my heart is. Right in the middle of these women on whom an Army rests. So even though technically this was...
by Molly Huggins | Apr 20, 2014 | Aha Moments, Blogging, Community, Faith, Hope, Photos, Thankful
{Oh hey. It’s me. Did ya forget about me? I promise I didn’t forget about you. We are in survival mode over here, which does not include thoughtful, lovingly crafted blog posts. It does include me near-comatose post bedtime routine, which is my normal writing time....
by Molly Huggins | Feb 12, 2014 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Hope, Husband, Uncategorized
Didja ever have those days? Those days – like today – where I end up on the wooden floor in my living room backed up against the wall, hypnotized by the dust motes floating lazily around pale, cold sunbeams. And the wall is necessary, bracing me, because I...
by Molly Huggins | Jan 2, 2014 | Army Life, Blogging, deployment, Faith, Fear, Hope
The prompt tonight is FIGHT. {Five Minute Friday is back, yay!} I was rolling it around on my tongue, waiting for more words, coherent thoughts, to follow. And truthfully, I was just about to bow out when my seven year old nephew shouted from upstairs. “Hey! Fight and...