Category: military life
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More Depressing than a Sad Santa
From the Momplex archives: It would be an understatement to say I’ve been a little blue lately. Blue’s such a pretty color anyway. Why don’t we refer to the doldrums with a color like diarrhea brown, as in “I’ve been feeling a little diarrhea-brown lately.” I have. My daughter, who will be five this week,…
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Soldier (from the Momplex Blog archives)
My husband is a soldier. It’s odd for me to type that out. Frankly, I think it makes him sound like a scuzzball that drives around in a rusty truck wearing a wifebeater t-shirt, listening to Lee Greenwood and Def Leppard. Why is that? I don’t know. Few of the soldiers I’ve personally known in…
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Not Enough Mom to Go Around (from the Momplex Blog archives)
From the Momplex Archives: My better half (and I really mean that) has been gone for almost three weeks, working on getting a bunch of soldiers ready for deployment. He’s in the National Guard, and what’s normally a two-week annual training in the summer turned into a three-week annual training in December. I miss all…
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