the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
Enjoying a drink that I tried to buy using the rest of my Starbucks card, but the manager wouldn’t hear of it. Thanks, Starbucks! In other news, I tried to get into the United Lounge with my boarding pass and my Premier Executive (Gold) status card, but they only let me in on the condition [...]
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It has already been a month since Elysia left Singapore on her IA to Afghanistan. She had several days in San Diego for medical and other processing and is currently in combat-related training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, home of the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center. It is an intense schedule with one day off each [...]
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Warrior Princess, Mitja? Really? Sure, go ahead and laugh. Laugh at the guy left behind while his wife is training in Louisiana for a deployment to Afghanistan. I don’t care, I’ll just sit here with my kids and play with our Elysia action figure. So what that it has blond hair. When we celebrated Elysia’s [...]
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Elysia left this morning, headed across the Johor Strait to Malaysia for several days with the US Navy. A small caravan of cars pulled up to the departure point, families said goodbye and then headed to brunch, the pool, or church. A heavy travel schedule is routine for many military families living in our community. For sixteen years, [...]
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You know, I think we could get used to this. The four of us hunkered down in our house — five if you count the cat, and our daughter always does — except for the occasional grocery or library run. It is easy to forget that Elysia’s maternity leave is almost halfway over. Our routine [...]
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