Mom Life, Fire Wife

5/13/13  I don’t intend to write this to have a pity party. I mostly write these things to get them off my chest and to know that I have a place I can write my feelings that is safe.  So I have been married to my wonderful husband Ty for 15 years now and he has been a firefighter during almost that entire time. He has done wild land firefighting, he is done paged out firefighting and he has worked in several different cities. I know what it takes to be a firefighters wife and I’ve known since the day that we got married that it would be difficult.  For example the week after we got married he was doing wild land and was gone for 14 days and then would come home for another 8 to 10 days and then be gone again.  Time has passed and now we have five kids and a dog and our life is quite busy. For some reason today, on Mother’s Day I got very emotional and felt very lonely. Today is our oldest daughters birthday and she turned five. Her daddy was at work and I, like usual, had to try

 So I decided to make this blog for a place where I can write my thoughts and frustrations. This is a place where I might be able to help somebody else know that they are not the only one feeling this way. Being a firefighter his wife is sometimes really hard and challenging.  When you add kids to the mix and family time is sparsely spread between that and real life it makes it difficult.  There are joys in knowing that my husband is helping others when he’s at work. There are good times and bad times and I’m actually grateful for both.