My husband has been deploying overseas for his job since our first son was born. Former Air National Guard he now works as a civilian defense contractor. While his deployments are a little bit different than a strict military deployment, it's still hard on our boys and navigating them can be tricky. Over the years we have found a few things that help them understand that no matter how far away … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Veteran’s Day 5k Race Recap
If you looked at my race schedule (before today) you won't see the Las Vegas Veteran's Day 5k run scheduled. I've been sick for the past 2 weeks (which has totally put a damper on my half marathon training), and I hadn't planned to do another race until my first half marathon Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas. However, my 5 year old son has been BEGGING me to let him run a race with me, so when I … [Read more...]
Parenting Behind the Social Media Curtain | Real Life Parenting
It’s the end of yet another exhausting day doing the single parenting thing while my husband is overseas for his job. The constant demands, playground interventions, tantrums, and all in everyday things that need to happen can be super draining. I have been thinking a lot about how I am not the parent that I dreamed of being. Recently my blog friend Hanan wrote on her blog about … [Read more...]
Sending Love Letters Across The Miles with Hallmark Go Cards Windows 8 App #WindowsChampions
This deployment has been anything but easy. I have to admit one of the things that has fallen through the cracks are the little letters and notes I like to send my husband. When we were dating and he deployed, I went to the store and bought a ton of cards to send. I filled them with little notes letting him know he was on my mind. Today those notes still sit in old deployment boxes. … [Read more...]
Staying in Touch with Skype During Deployments #WindowsChampions
My husband has been deployed now for over 2.5 months. There isn’t a day that he is gone that he doesn’t long to see the kids. For his job as a aviation defense contractor my husband has deployed 5+ times since our first son was born. (We have actually gone through so many deployments via Air Force and this job that I have stopped counting.) When it was just the two of us, Skyping … [Read more...]