The Tradition of No Traditions
My husband is deployed and I'm too pregnant to travel comfortably these days.  I wasn't sure what I'd be doing for Thanksgiving.  I talked to one of my husband's friends, a single soldier who is deploying in a few days.  He didn't have time to get home and back before deployment, so his father was flying out to see him off.  He said they'd probably have to eat at Country Kitchen or something.We decided to do a tiny Thanksgiving together: a 9-lb bird, just a few easy sides, and a store-bought pie.  A nice meal to see a soldier off before he deploys, and something to keep me feeling like it's Thanksgiving and not just another

Changes in Personality
I just moved back to military land to get a house setup before the Soldier came home from his deployment. A friend of mine was kind enough to let me stay at her home while I went house hunting. During this time I noticed that her son, who is 14 months old, was rather quiet. I guess I just was used to babies talking up a storm but Baby K said no more than a few babbles. She said that he was a little guy of few words, the strong silent type. I know that each child is different from the other so I didn’t think it was out of the norm. Well, her husband recently returned from his seco

Doing Pregnancy Alone
I am ready for a silver linings post, this time about pregnancy.My husband left for a nine month deployment right after we found out I was pregnant with our first child.  He will miss the entire pregnancy.  I can think of a million ways that it stinks that he's gone: no one to go with me to ultrasounds, no one to feel my belly when she kicks, no one to rub my feet or go downstairs to get me a glass of water.  No pampering at all.  That is lame.But I have been trying to keep track of the good things about doing this alone.  I have come up with a couple. 1) 

From the Mailbag: Make it Stop!
SpouseBUZZ received an interesting email this week, which reminded me of something we've discussed many times here at SpouseBUZZ. As Sarah says, "One person's weird is another person's normal." Our lives are rarely in sync. At any given time, we're in varying stages of life; just entering military spousedom, no deployment on the horizon, pre-deployment, deployment, post-deployment, approaching service separation, etc. I think we often react to issues based on where we are in our personal lives. Something that bothers me may not bother you. Something that bothers me now may not bother m

Taking 2010 by Storm: On the Road Again.....
2010 is going to be a busy year for SpouseBUZZ. We'll host a minimum of four SpouseBUZZ LIVE events next year. I say "minimum" because we may add one or two more events to the calendar. Today, we can announce that we'll be in Las Vegas on May 1, 2010 for SpouseBUZZ LIVE Nellis Air Force Base. All military spouses are invited. We'll announce more events when dates and locations are locked in, so stay tuned. We'd like to thank the companies who make it possible for us to bring these events to military communities across the country. The com