Serving Faithfully

5 Tips for Surviving Deployment During the Holidays

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

…Unless your husband is deployed.

When you’re facing the holidays alone, all the festivities feel, at best, somewhat hollow…

Holiday Gift Guides for Spouses

I can’t believe it’s already that time of year again—time to start getting serious about Christmas shopping! Last year, I put together some holiday gift guides for kids ages 0-8, but this year I want to focus on shopping for the adults in your life. In this post I’ll give you some general gift-giving…

10 Tips for Keeping Kids’ Hand-Me-Downs Organized

Now I can finally say that we’ve worked out a system for organizing the kids’ clothes and shoes that is infinitely more sustainable and easier to use. You’d think I’d have figured all this out years ago, but it’s taken be almost seven years of parenting and 3.5 kids to get the point where I…

How to Help Others Help You During TDY and Deployment

And in just a few months, we’ll be doing another prolonged separation (this time without the benefit of having family nearby), so I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about what things were the most helpful to us while we were separated from Dad, and how friends and family (both near and far) can help support their…

How I Helped My Three-Year-Old Improve His Pencil Grip

When I posted a homeschool update back in October, I mentioned the struggle Oliver and I had with his pencil grip and how much he’d improved since August. Several people reached out to me wanting to know more about how I helped him overcome his issues with fine motor skills and handwriting. So in this post I’m going…