This is my submission:
As the wife of a Marine, my life is not my own. I live where I am told to live, move when I am told to move, and parent our 4 & 1 year olds alone more often than I’d like. As a mother and military wife you become quickly accustomed to change and an all-encompassing life of “have to’”. You do what you have to do to maintain consistency for your children and keep the family moving forward. Often times you are the family’s greatest asset because you are “the glue” and that becomes your identity for as long as you are living the military lifestyle.
This has been my life for the past several years. My husband has been to Iraq 3 times and provided humanitarian aid to victims of both hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. He has been away more often on training missions and deployments than he has been home. We have moved 8 times. Our son was born in CA and our daughter was born in Japan. Our life is amazing and I LOVE every minute of it. We are not at all extraordinary by military standards. We are a typical military family doing what we do because we love our Marine, our country, and each other.
Before I found Scentsy this was my life. I was a Mother and a military wife and I lived a life of service to my family. It is all I ever wanted and I was very happy. What I began to realize was that I did not do anything in my day that was just for me. I found accomplishment in maintaining the day-to-day life and in making sure my family received all they needed to be happy. Don’t get me wrong, that is a very meaningful life purpose, it just never offered me a niche in life that was just mine alone.
