motivation

I never used to have a problem being motivated to do things. I found, after I got married that the more my husband was gone, the less motivated I became to do the things that I normally would.
I have to find a way to get myself out of the "deployment funk"....but on the bright side he's not out of the country and we get to spend the whole holiday weekend together.
He has requested "real food" to be the menu for the weekend which is husband speak for all his favorite meals that u make when he is home normally...this, of course fans a woman's pride, which is nice every now and then!
He has also tried to be thoughtful and take me on a date by ourselves, but holidays being what they are, it has now turned into a family date where we will try to get our son to sit happily thru Eclipse and then go to dinner....it matters not that we have to bring the baby I'm just happy that my husband is willing to sit in on what most men consider girl movies just because he knows I like them...I believe that I am blessed!

our basset-chewy

iWe found our dog outside our house in Feb of this year. Our son was 5 months old and the thing that sealed the deal for us to keep him was that when our son would nap he would go lay at the foot of his crib til he woke up and then let us know by whining. The dog still is good with our son, who is now 9 months old, but we have come to find that he's one of the quirkiest dogs either of us have ever encountered
We caught him trying to climb into the livingroom window to sit on the sill like a cat, who is 1/4 his size, he promptly fell out but has tried again countless times since then.
He seems to be the only vegetarian dog in existence. He will eat watermelon off the floor, but if you drop meat he sniffs at it and walks off.
And now we come to the current time. My husband is obviously HIS human. While my husband is at work, even though I'm there, he whines and paces until he drives me crazy and I put him out. When my husband comes home though he magically stops. Now, my husband is TDY and the dog is beside himself. He won't eat very much, he whined the whole first week after my husband left, and the dog still thinks I'm chopped liver and that my only purpose is to let Jim out every now and then.

pregnancy and tricare

I had little difficulty with tricare when I was pregnant with our son, but this pregnancy has just begun and nothing is going well. I'm allergic to one type of medicine they prescribe for nausea, so I have to use the more expensive kind. I can't seem to get my meds refilled, which I was able to do before. I don't understand how narcotics are not only refilable and usually don't have a cap on how many you can take, but a medicine designed for pregnant women is policed as if it were made of solid gold. How do you fight something like this? What am I supposed to do when I get dehydration to the point that I can't take care of my son thee way I need to while my husband is gone? What is it going to take for tricare to realize that sometimes things can't work the way they think they should?

lets start at the very beginning...

...My life as a military wife started November 2008. My husband and I met online, as scary as some have thought that is I never worried about my husband...he gave me his commanders names and let me investigate him! How's that for honesty! In the nearly two years of marriage we have had quite a roller coaster ride. Honeymoon baby, miscarriage, immediately pregnant again, TDYs, a baby in August, family marriages, and fast forward to now...I'm 10 weeks and 6 days pregnant with our second child, who as luck would have it is due the day after Christmas!
With life happening all around I decided I needed an outlet. This blog is for all of you who are in the background, who support your soldier, are a single-married parent on occasion, and who get ignored by the establishment to which your spouses belong because you are "just the civilian wife".