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The Deployment Toolbox

Resources to help you before, during, and after

Let’s talk deployment. Yes I know, not a favorite topic of mine either. But it’s part of the life and as much as we want to ignore it we know the possibility of another one coming is out there, that is if we aren’t actually in the reality of it now. Here are a few things I’ve […]

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The Secrets We Keep

Lessons from Castle

So yes, I’m a couch potato at times. Our lives get pretty hectic so when we get the opportunity the hubby and I will order in and binge watch a few shows. Last week was the premiere of our favorites and I was out of town. He, being the wonderful husband he is, waited and we’ve […]

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On Purim, Esther and Providence

I have been enthralled with Esther for some time. A book that does not mention God and yet so clearly portrays His providence, a woman not in her homeland and forced into a harem who became a savior, and one of the first powerful women of the Bible I was ever introduced to. I knew her […]

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Military Spouses: We are in this together

I was 27 when my husband decided to re-enter the military. After six years of marriage and two children I had braced my self for the idea that he would re-enter law enforcement. The Army was not something I expected. In fact when he first mentioned enlisting I enlisted the help of good friends to run an intervention. […]

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Valentine’s Day isn’t meant to be spent alone

A few years back, when I was the Ministry Director at Sunrise Baptist Church, we hosted a Valentine event for Spouses of Deployed Soldiers. It was my family’s first experience with deployment. My soldier had left the previous November and the thought of spending another holiday alone was unbearable. So I devised a plan.

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Hagar: The Other Wife

“If the Army wants you to have a wife then they will issue you one.” I’ve heard this joke more than once and the more I hear it the more it sounds like fact. The Army is not kind to marriages. It’s hard. I have seen this lifestyle break far more homes then I have […]