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Tag Archives: Stress LBGT History Month, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Pastor Appreciation Month… October has a lot of “themes” associated with it. October is also National Depression Awareness Month. Don’t run out to the store; they don’t sell decorations for it. I checked. For as far back as I can remember, I have been an anxiety-ridden person. …  Why is it every time my husband goes away, something MAJOR goes wrong? So back in December, we had a fire. He started a long list of pre-deployment trainings in January. While he was gone, I was having to deal with the house restoration people and getting our house back together. Yeah. It’s now September…  Yesterday, my husband and I were in the waiting room of a shipping company, waiting happily for our car to be delivered to us. We recently shipped it from Hawaii, during our PCS, and took the day to go and pick it up. We goofed and laughed during the two hour, traffic filled drive, excited… We have two car shipping incidents. When he was stationed in England, my husband bought a new American car through a dealer on base. The car was transported from Germany and ferried across the Channel. When he went to watch them unload the car (by crane) they dropped it overboard. (It was totalled.) The second incident was when we were PCS’ing back to the States. I was 5 months pregnant and looking forward (not) to driving across the country from New Jersey to IL in our Toyota Chinook camper. When we landed at Dover and went to pick up the car, we found someone had tried to remove the stove and power inverter, so we needed to get some repairs. But it ran! And, yes, we were able to laugh because at least they hadn’t dropped it off the ship! We have two car shipping incidents. When he was stationed in England, my husband bought a new American car through a dealer on base. The car was transported from Germany and ferried across the Channel. When he went to watch them unload the car (by crane) they dropped it overboard. (It was totalled.) The second incident was when we were PCS’ing back to the States. I was 5 months pregnant and looking forward (not) to driving across the country from New Jersey to IL in our Toyota Chinook camper. When we landed at Dover and went to pick up the car, we found someone had tried to remove the stove and power inverter, so we needed to get some repairs. But it ran! And, yes, we were able to laugh because at least they hadn’t dropped it off the ship!  Sorry for the long gap in blog updates. Like most military families, during the summer months, we are partaking in a PCS. Right now, we are in the middle of finding a home, our car and personal belongings are somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and we are learning the area that we…  Presents Army Wife Talk Radio Join the AWN team this week on Army Wife Talk Radio for a chat with Maria Murphy. Maria is a frequent guest on AWTR and tonight is here to talk us through some stressful moments. Help! I’m Stressed! Now what? Resource of the Week: Changing Zip Codes We’ll see you… Go to http://www.ChangingZipCodes.com and send me a question or comment you might have about moving. I will draw a name from one of you and send you a free Changing Zip Codes book. |
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GREAT article! Thank you so much for writing it and sharing your feelings. “A therapist is like a friend who is a really good listener and gets paid by tricare.” So true!
We are going to have to call you Brave Emily, now. Not only have you battled for yourself, this story will help a LOT of good people who just need to take the first steps toward some help. I’m proud of you!
What I love is that you talk about me…can we talk about that? I am so proud of you and how much you’ve accomplished in such a short period of time. You are such an inspiration for so many people and the fact that you are putting yourself out there helps people you don’t even know about yet. I am sad you left out the transgender conversation though.
Now I want to start a website called Loving A Soldier’s Wife…is that weird? So proud of you!