This post was not my intention this week. I had a whole outline of an idea that I started writing, but I am drowning. I’m struggling with absolutely everything that this post feels both needed and necessary. I solo parent a lot, feels like about 50% of the time, because of my husbands job. This…
This has been the most difficult thing when it comes to motherhood in the military, at least for me. “It takes a village to raise a child.” A phrase so commonly said and used in normal circumstances. In places where people are raising children surrounded by friends and family that are constants. In places that…
Motherhood definitely made me lose a big part of myself, but I think the military took the rest of who I am and shoved her into a box labeled “spouse.” Because in the eyes of most, especially the government, that’s all I am while my husband builds his career within the military. I can’t recognize…