Jessica Schaefer
The colorful and caffeinated life of a mom and army wife!
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I’m a mom of two with a love for my kids and coffee. Usually in the order. As a military spouse I am a pro at solo parenting and picking up life to move it thousands of miles away at the drop of a hat. Making a new house feel like home is my specialty. Oh and I try to look good while doing it! I started blogging to share mg experiences and advice on how to thrive as a military spouse and as a mom. Most of my writing/posts are very “real” with a side of humor. Because if you can’t laugh what’s the point? I would love to collaborate with other moms and military spouses who like to talk about the pretty and the ugly! For brands wanting to reach the military spouse community, especially moms, I would love to chat about how we can work together! Other brands that would fit well/organically with my content would be related to coffee (duh), parenting, moving/travel (especially with kids) and mom style!
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To start with, my husband’s unit/company/whatever submitted all the PCS and Christmas leave through the wrong system…but didn’t realize it so they were just blaming the people waiting for their leave to be approved for not submitting it earlier. Charlie’s leave didn’t get approved until the day before it started. Which means he didn’t get to start clearing Fort Hood until the day before his leave started. Day four, Friday, we woke up and it had snowed a bunch on the route we were going to take, but by some miracle the mountain passes in Washington were bare and wet…rather than the sheet of ice in Oregon where chains were required.
As someone who likes to have a plan, and a backup plan, and a third string plan, these are a few things I’ve been doing to mentally prepare for a PCS during a pandemic. We’ve already had to reschedule our truck once due to Fort Hood shenanigans, but at this point we have a UPACK trailer coming and they are going to put it in storage for us in Olympia. With the uncertainty of finding a place to live, I’ve also been looking at the cost of storage and a place for us to stay while we wait to find a house. By looking at the numbers ahead of time, I can at least try to get prepared and look at ways to balance expenses and reimbursement so we can (hopefully) not take too big of a hit financially!
And since today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day I figured there was no time like the present. But I can tell you I had calculated my due date, planned the cute Christmas themed newborn pictures I would take, figured out if my husband would be able to go to the anatomy scan before leaving for his rotation. By that time my husband didn’t have his phone so talking to him about what was going on wasn’t an option. But I couldn’t fathom telling other people before I was able to tell my husband.
People who say that the last month of deployment is the longest are clearly not moving cross country with kids and pets, setting up a new house, and prepping for a two week long quarantine that starts as soon as their husband gets home. I went to his battalion parking lot at 3 am and waited in my car (with a Whataburger breakfast sandwich because he was jet lagged and hungry) then went home. When I got to the parking lot, someone got my name so they could tell my husband where I was parked. By the time Charlie got his bags there was pretty much nobody left in the parking lot…but being a rule follower our first hug was through my open car window.