The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

Around about two years ago, shortly after Danielle and I moved into our current house, we purchased several pieces of furniture from IKEA, the dealer of choice for nomadic post-college twenty-somethings. Their products are attractively designed, and they’re cheap.
They’re also made out of shitty materials.
Our house in Newport is significantly bigger than our duplex in [...]

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My latest post is up at Milspouse.com: ‘Waiting (Im)Patiently.
We submitted our list of preferences about 6 weeks ago, and we were supposed to find out the first week of this month—then it got pushed back a week. I knew that somewhere mysterious decision-making machinery was churning out our future, but I was vague on the [...]

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The other day I got an e-mail from a video producer for United Press International. She’s researching a potential piece on military husbands, and she wanted to chat about ideas. We talked this afternoon, and I know she also talked to John, and she contacted Mitja. It’s funny what a small world the military husband [...]

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Yes, these are pictures of our 10-month-old climbing up onto the ottoman that we use to keep him from falling off the step down from the kitchen into the family room. I know walking can’t be that far behind.
We knew he was up to something when, the other night, Danielle went into his room to [...]

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A lot has happened in the last 10 days since my last post. I won’t go into all of it, but I think a recap is in order.
First of all, I want to say that Hulu.com is an instrument of the devil. Even though we don’t subscribe to cable or have an antenna for our [...]

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When Sean was about 2 or 3 months old, he decided he wasn’t that into  his pacifier. He would pluck it out of his mouth and throw it away as if to say, ‘This nipple-shaped piece of silicon isn’t fooling me, Dad.’ And then he’d resume crying.
At 3 months, he was sleeping on his own [...]

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So last week we spent a long weekend in Washington, D.C. We saw friends and family and more friends, and it was a terrific trip.
All except for the first night.
We left Newport later than we would have liked because we didn’t feel like jumping through our assholes first thing in the morning. We left shortly [...]

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