You ever have one of those days as a young mom where every little crash and scream makes you want to cry and your ponytail is too tight and you really want a shower and you’ve spent the entire day preparing food and yet are still starving and the next time someone needs you, you might just disappear? Perspective always helps me on those days. We’re only halfway through thetell me the rest!
Category: Marriage
How to survive a year long deployment with five kids six and under
When you’re scraping banana puke out of a car seat, knowing one day “these will be the good ol’ days” may not comfort you. You are not in the trenches alone.
Dear husband, now that our love is quiet
When you said “I do”, I don’t think you pictured this. When you imagined the wild romance that was to come, I can’t imagine a shopping cart full of kids and an exhausted wife is what you saw. But, oh, you do it all so well.
No longer a military wife, but not quite a civilian one either: the in-between life of a contractor’s wife
It’s just another husbandless day. The first question I’m typically asked when people find out my missing husband is deployed: What branch? He’s prior Marine Corps, I tell them, but he works privately now. We did five years in the Marines. Five years surrounded by a community of people who spoke my language, understood the acronyms, knew what it was like for spouses to miss Christmases and milestones and births.tell me the rest!
Corrin Bjorn: a homebirth story
I clutched the steering wheel a little harder as another tightening pain encircled around my belly. Ouchhh. Stupid fake contractions. A pause. My mind began to wander. How’s Alia doing in the backseat? Man, I can’t wait for this dessert. Why are the boys taking so long? Maybe tomorrow–eek, that one hurt. Wait. Those were close together too…? My husband had taken my son into the grocery store to picktell me the rest!
When your hormones and your circumstances are at war
I’ve found myself in an odd state lately. Today, I’m 36+4 weeks pregnant. Little mister could show up any day, and instead of painting the nursery and dreaming about taking him to the park next door, I’m house hunting for homes in a different state. That’s right–we’re moving again. We don’t know when, we don’t know where, but we know it’s coming. The shift work is slowly killing our familytell me the rest!
19 lessons I learned in 2019
2019 has been a year of change. Every part of our lives have changed–from the jobs, to the location, to our marriage, our family, our living situation–everything. The kids and I moved three times. My husband moved four times. From the east coast to southwest to farther north on the east coast. My husband got out of the military and we were a civilian family for the first time ever.tell me the rest!
I’ve never met my civilian husband
Four years ago, an 18 year old missionary kid moved back from England early to marry her high school sweetheart. They had only been together for two weeks out of the two years since he had left during his junior year of high school. In those two years, she finished high school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia working as an English teacher and training in Muay Thai and he joined thetell me the rest!
10 more ways my husband has cherished me
Every once in a while I need a little lesson in gratitude. When the kids are screaming, the living room is torn apart, the sink is piled high with last night’s dishes, I don’t want to go in the bathroom because my husband smooshed a cockroach on the wall and I don’t want to clean it up but I also don’t want to look at it, the fridge is emptytell me the rest!
Five letters to connect in a distant marriage
We’ve all had that conversation with our husband. You know, the one where he looks over and notices our worn out countenance and asks what’s wrong, then we have a choice regarding what we’re going to tell him and he has a choice about how to respond. I have this friend who I’ll call Stacy and because she’s been feeling discouraged often, she’s been having this conversation with her husband,tell me the rest!