Join Cat and Sarge as they raise their daughter, Monkey.  This Air Force wife’s blog about the difficult journey through life and the inspiration that comes from God is an honest look at living the life we have been called to.

Cassie’s aim at Day of Bliss is to encourage women everywhere. As a military wife and mom to six kids she understands the chaos of life that can sometimes get us down.

I just walked in the door after another crazy busy day. My day started off on the wrong foot when I woke up late,  which meant I spent the day feeling like I was trying to catch up.  As I hurried to get the kids dressed and breakfast on the table, I was also trying to make a salad I needed to bring for Bible study this morning.  I dropped the oldest four off at school, and then made my way to Bible study on post. A quick stop for coffee and I was on my way.

You may know Kim as a Wives of Faith blogger. At This Is My Blog, she posts one of the best definitions of love that I have ever read. Be sure to check  out her About pages but be ready to laugh and cry at the same time.

Every day, every year for well, even longer than the 10 1/2 years we have been married,  Love is something different.

~shutting up even when you (or I. Mostly I, but sometimes you) deserve the last word.

~striving to make a change in myself because you inspired me by how you loved me first and never asked me to change at all.  Even when I needed to. Read the rest here.

I hope you enjoy these blogs as much as I did. Please let the ladies know that you stopped in by leaving a comment!

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Don’t you hate it? It seems like that all my I do these days. Its been two weeks since I have heard from my husband, and everyday I wake up with a bit of hope that today he will call. Then as I start to get ready for bed, I have that disappointing feeling again that he didn’t. I look forward to tomorrow where that hope will resume its position in the morning. Sometimes it can become consuming, constantly checking the phone to see if I have service or that my ringer is on…just in case. I find myself in a panic if I have left a room when my phone is in another, or if I am in my car and my phone isn’t in my lap. Cell phones are wonderful, but they can also be crippling. I teach with a lady whose husband was deployed a year during Vietnam. The only communication they had was letters. The one time he did get the opportunity to call home, she missed the phone call. Can you imagine what it would be like not to hear your husband’s voice for a whole year!? I remind myself of her situation, when I get discouraged about not hearing from my husband. Yes, deployments stink and not hearing from your husband for weeks at a time is awful, but I am grateful that I am a military wife during the technological age.

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I have come to the realization the past couple of weeks that when my husband gets home from Iraq, he may be lost in the changes that have happened while he’s been away. Situations occur at home, that you don’t want them to worry about and in all honesty in the 20 minute phone call you get every two weeks, you don’t want to spend it talking about the negative or sad things going on at home. I have to wonder is this a bad thing, because it has begin to make me feel somewhat disconnected from him. I am on my side of the world dealing with family issues, that he really has no clear picture on because I haven’t gone into great detail. I write my husband letters everyday but even in the letters I don’t want to include unfortunate things that are happening at home. How can we let our husbands know what’s going on at home without bringing them down and not letting us feel disconnected from them?

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I have a new post up at the MilSpouse blog. (I wrote this last week but sometimes it takes a while…)

Feel free to post there or here and comment what you think…

Facing Our Biggest Fears

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