I never knew how different military children were until our granddaughters lived with us during their mom’s deployment. When I was a kid my parents moved very often. They just liked to move and experience new surroundings. When I graduated from high school I had been to 13 schools. People would ask me” Is your [...]
Our daughter will be taking a new assignment and that means I am back being a parent to my granddaughters. Its been 5 years since our daughter deployed when her children came to live with us. At that time, my husband and I were totally unprepared for becoming our granddaughter’s guardians. But we love our [...]
Here is a picture of my husband Alan and my granddaughter Bailey’s at her school’s Open House. My husband and I both helped her with her school project. When my daughter deployed and her children arrived in our home the elementary school had been in session for 3 months. I tried to find after [...]
When I was notified that I had been selected to attend the White House Community Leaders briefing , my first thought was- “My wish is coming true!” I have been wishing to share with our government how we can better help our military families experiencing deployments and returning home for sometime . I faced so [...]
This is a very exciting time for my granddaughters,Ivie and Bailey, and myself. We completed writing their book- Deployed Kids and now we have a new website www.deployedkids.com for military children. After my granddaughter’s, completed their book -Deployed Kids, we talked about how we could further help support military kids. We felt what was [...]
