by Molly Huggins | Oct 11, 2012 | Army Life, Community, Snapshots
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...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 9, 2012 | Army Life, Grief, Snapshots
For privacy reasons, my friend has chosen to remain anonymous. But please read her snapshot of “I”. Sometimes, we meet people right in the heart of their messy and heartisbreaking moments. And we don’t and sometimes won’t know how the story...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 6, 2012 | Army Life, Lives We Love, Snapshots
Meet my friend T. You’ve heard of the stages of grief, right? Well, you could say there are stages of deployment. One of them is insane preparation for every wild scenario your overactive imagination can conjure. And can I just tell you, we’ve all been...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
J Girl and I have some favorite bedtime books. You Are My I Love You is at the top of the list. In this sweet story, a loving parent tells her babe . . . “I am your favorite book. You are my new lines.” Slogging through this Army life, we get a practical...
by Molly Huggins | Sep 3, 2012 | Army Life, Photos, Thankful
Yesterday in church . . . (I was paying attention, I promise) . . . I really, truly, remembered that I used to fly helicopters. I closed my eyes – and for a heartbeat . . . I was free. I could see the ground fading away, blue skies bursting through the...
