The game does not play the team
This is supposed to be the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac system. As a dragon, this year is supposed to bring me luck and good fortune along with a few other things… Luck? I just found out I’m deploying for a second time in a year! How lucky is that?! One of the worst parts of being military is the deployments---for me anyway. Others could argue that there is … [Read more...]
There are a lot of things I’ve been unofficially issued as an Army wife. Some are good, and others? well…..they suck. Deployments being the main culprit of suckiness! But out of all the things I am the most grateful for being issued are my Sisters. I knew before Brandon joined, that the relationships you make with fellow military wives are often like the ones you have with your own … [Read more...]
The Troops have spoken! Team Duncan donated cups of coffee on behalf of our readers to Green Beans. Their program Cup of Joe for a Joe is one of the coolest ways to show the troops we’re thinking of them. If you’d like to donate a cup or two you can check them out here. All the comments were compiled into one huge message and sent because I wanted the recipient to read all of them. Here … [Read more...]
This road trip isn’t a road trip in the sense that we were on a ‘trip’ so to speak…but we were in the car on our way to somewhere… where it was I forget now…because this is what happened: We were living in Georgia at the time and B was deployed, and a lot of our 'trips' included other wives from his unit. This particular day it included my friend Stephanie. Lexi and I had picked … [Read more...]
This is how I spent a little bit of my Selfish Sunday time today: A few months ago B gave me one of the thin name tapes he had removed from a helmet he wore when he first joined the Army. At first I was going to put it in my purse so I always had it with me. Well, I change purses almost daily according to what I'm wearing, etc. Yes, I am one of those girls. Don't judge, I have to … [Read more...]
