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I’m thankful for military life. Sometimes it can get me down, but when I take a deeper look, there’s always a way to find gratitude in all seasons. November gives us a great opportunity to reflect upon our past year, and right now, our family is in the thick of an are-we-crazy-for-choosing-a-DITY PCS. I wrote these things down as a personal reminder of what this Army life has to offer—even in some of the more difficult seasons.
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Happy November! This is one of my most thankful ones yet. I am so grateful for November this year. Especially today, November 3rd.
Today is my one year anniversary of my first “Blog Day!” Blog Day! gets its own exclamation point, not just that sentence overall. You know, because you can’t say, “blog day,” without emotion. That would just be wrong.
Blog Day! is the third of every month for me–the day that these words I am writing get pushed out and shared with an audience.
November, 3, 2017 marks the day my writing published on AWN for the very first time. I dubbed the day Blog Day! and over the past year my little personal holiday has never disappointed me.
I just can’t help it. I am absolutely stoked to have this opportunity. So, I’d like to say thank you. Thanks for the chance, for this moment, and this creative outlet. Thanks for this connection to anyone who may have enjoyed any of the over 12,000 words I’ve written over this past year. I wrote them for you, and I wrote them for me!
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I always knew that having a military family was important, but holy cow, I’ve never been more thankful for mine.
Sure, I was thankful for my neighbors who let me sit in their house for hours on a holiday morning when I locked myself out and my husband was away training.
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When my third child was just 6 months old, I already knew I was ready for my fourth, a girl. I just knew. My husband and I started to make plans, gear up, and even began buying her hair bows, her first ballet leotard, and I began my short list of names.
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget how many things we have to be thankful for when the hustle and bustle of life takes over, but these weeks leading up to the holidays give me pause.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Being a military spouse is not for the weak-hearted.
There are ups and downs, joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, seasons of celebration and seasons of suck. It’s an emotional rollercoaster that can leave us excited and ready to jump back on and take another spin. But other times, this life-calling finds us with a spinning head, holding back tears with a nauseous stomach and searching for a puke bucket.
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November makes me get a bit more serious about gratitude. Why don’t I instill a daily ritual, reminding myself of the gifts I have every day? Did you know that gratitude can have lasting benefits for your health?
Maybe that will be my New Year’s resolution! For now, I’m happy to focus on giving thanks in anticipation of Turkey Day.
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It was a beautiful day a couple of weeks ago, and I knew I was making a choice that would impact my whole day.
I knew it would be good, but I couldn’t have known how long the ripple effect would last. Maybe I still don’t know for sure how my choice made an impact that day.
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November is usually the time of year when people consider all that they have to be thankful for. We begin to express our gratitude for the important people in our lives and all the things that make our lives enjoyable. With all the ups and downs that come with military life, we sometimes need to take a step back to find the positive and this time of year is the perfect time to do it.
When taking a deeper look, there are plenty of things to be thankful for in this military journey that civilian life just can’t provide.
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