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Officially Registered!

After reading the book in my previous post I noticed the author refers a lot to the website that she founded. It took a while for me to actually go to the website and check it out. Information can be accessed without registering but I think it really is beneficial to register and access everything you possibly can.

So I am officially registered and cruising around this site. It looks so cool so far :) I especially like the section titled Newbies and Brides.

First Book Read and Hopefully Many More to Come

In researching this project as in most other subjects I thought it would be good to start with books. (I will be listing these books on the right side of my blog under the "Books" section.) I searched Amazon for relevant, used books to start. The first one came a couple of weeks ago, it is Married to the Military: A Survival Guide For Military Wives, Girlfriends, And Women In Uniform by Meredith Leyva.

This book is sort of an eye opener I also found it a good book to begin with in research about this subject. It really covers everything you need to know. Things that I never would've even thought about until the time came up. For example, it lists things like what to wear for certain events, how to greet people, the steps to take after women make it official and get married. There is a whole chapter designated to moving your family across the country or even over seas. I would say at the least it should be considered helpful. It really is a survival guide!

The author of the book, Meredith Leyva, is also the founder of the site cinchouse.com. She explains in the first chapter is stands for "Commander in Chief of the House". I just pulled an image off of Google so you can see what the cover looks like. Sometimes it's easier to find when you get to see the cover.

I was talking this book up to a friend of mine, Amanda. Her boyfriend has recently joined the Air Force and she really found it interesting as well. I love how it caters to all branches and not just one. The author tries to mention any differences between branches as well when covering a specific subject.

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You Have To See This!

So the whole thing that inspired this project was a military image I saw of a woman holding a baby in front of a laptop and on the laptop was her husband. They were skyping until the baby fell asleep. And the caption said something along the lines of "although my daddy is far away he's still here in my heart" because they got to see each other. I can't find the image but I am still looking.

Today I logged onto my Facebook and saw this picture. This is Gavin, his daddy is away on a 400 day deployment. He has a 1 year old brother and they miss their daddy soooo much. I love this image. This is exactly the types of things I want to photograph. I couldn't think of how to explain it before but it's coming along. I want to show the little things (and larger scale things) that these families do in times like this. In this case, just making a little pillow with the father's picture on it so Gavin can see him when he goes to sleep. It's such a small thing, but it helps this little guy.

* Just to verify again. This is not my image but an image my friend and Military Wife Kymber took of her son.