Month: January 2014

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, click here!   I could talk forever about marriage, but it’s time to wrap up this little mini-series of mine. Ironically, this all started out as one post for the launch of the Happy Wives Club book, but once I got writing, I couldn’t stop. I glazed over things in the interest of saving some writing/reading time, but it still ended up being rather long. I had fun thinking about…

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, click here!  I had always been brought up with the idea that you wanted to marry someone who shared your same core beliefs. Thankfully, D and I had the same foundation even though we didn’t see eye to eye on everything. We both grew up in the same denomination even though our experiences were extremely different. My elementary years into my early teens were great years at the church.…

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, click here!  We had some highs and lows during those early years of marriage. We had spent a good bit of time apart rather than together due to military training and schools. When D ended up in a position where he wouldn’t be gone a lot, we looked forward to having more family time together. It wasn’t long after we arrived at the new duty station when 9/11 happened…

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, click here!   We were exhausted. Our baby girl did not understand the concept of sleeping through the night. We wanted to spend time together, but sleep had become more of a priority than having a date night. Back then, date nights usually meant dinner and a movie at home, but even those types of dates had been set aside for a season. We took turns getting up with our…

This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, click here!   We had begun the adventure of a lifetime, and now we had some mountains to climb. I was a hothead. Yep, I had quite the temper, and my mouth could easily get the better of me if I didn’t watch myself. One of the things that my mom always loved about D was that he mellowed me out due to his more laid back personality. (He’s very…