14 Crazy Things I Said this Week that Make Perfect Sense for a Military Wife

Army Wives, military life, Real Army Wives

The Military life is a unique one for sure. Sometimes I find myself saying things that are sort of ridiculous, so I took a few minutes to jot a few down. Maybe you can relate. “I just can’t possibly sit through another church’s new member class. I won’t do it.” –I said this with all the drama and emphasis you can imagine. Sitting for more than 30 minutes is agonizingly painful for my back, so new church member classes are […]

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Coping with the Move Part II: Less Solitaire

4 kids, Army Wives, military life, moving, stay-at-home mom
Coping with the Move Part II: Less Solitaire

Two weeks ago I blogged about how I cope with the move, most of it in the form of counterproductive coping mechanisms. I was playing Solitaire and Jeopardy all day, in between chores and meal serving. The kids are still home all day for the summer, so obviously I was also doing my share of microwaving corndogs and settling petty disputes. I vowed to do better. More healthy coping strategies! I will talk it out, blog, and not hide away […]

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PoppySeed Chicken Recipe: My Most Requested Dish

recipes, stay-at-home mom

If I get an email or Facebook message from a friend I haven’t seen in 5 or 10 years, odds are high they need my poppyseed chicken recipe again. I have had SO MANY phone calls over this one recipe. I’m not promising this is a healthy dish, but it is filling and delicious. Shout out to my college roommate, Nikki, who taught me this one. I’m pretty sure it was the first chicken recipe I ever learned besides “put […]

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What Coping Mechanisms Work for You?

moving, stay-at-home mom
What Coping Mechanisms Work for You?

Sadness got to me a little bit this week. Moving can be mentally hard. I can say that today without feeling too embarrassed about it because I feel like we turned things around by Thursday or Friday, and we had a good weekend. There’s an unhealthy, or as goodtherapy.org put it “maladaptive”, behavior I engaged in far too much this week: playing hours of Tri-Peaks Solitaire and the World Tour Jeopardy app on my phone. These are coping mechanisms I […]

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The “New People” Version of Ourselves. This isn’t Really Us.

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The "New People" Version of Ourselves. This isn't Really Us

Each move is unique, and I gotta say. I am definitely getting better at this. This is the first move that I can remember not retreating deep into my shell. We’ve been visiting the same church for three weeks now, and I’d say I’ve been almost regular April, the real me, not the new-kid-in-town version of me.
Do you know what I mean? I first used that term, “new people version of us”, while talking to some new friends in Georgia

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Ow!! What just stung us at the beach in the Gulf of Mexico? Jellyfish?

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Ow!! What just stung us at the beach in the Gulf of Mexico? Jellyfish?

I didn’t get a single sting this year. Hurray! But Alan and two of our sons were swimming around when they all began to realize that their legs were stinging, all of them! It wasn’t a terrible run for cover ordeal, just a, “Hey, I’m getting out

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How to Start Your Day off With Joy

4 kids, attitude, Bible, faith, stay-at-home mom

It is so important to start your day off with positivity! The news, your Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, those things are all iffy. Let’s talk about a better way to start your day. Every morning I wake up, and I do the same first few things. In the summer, I sleep a little later, and I still kind of zombie-walk down to the kitchen, pour my coffee, and plop myself down on a sofa. Sometimes, on my way to the sofa, […]

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12 Tips on How to Make Friends When You Move

military life, moving

After your move to a new city, you unpack all of your boxes, and gradually you realize you have a problem. You don’t know anybody. Now you need to know how to make friends when you move to a new place. Sometimes I wonder if this is truly my ONLY area of expertise: moving. I’ve literally moved about 18 times in my life, most of those as an adult. And every once in a while we do the truly life-changing […]

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