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Summary: Wonderful and helpful
Review: Ellie Kay's book not only educates spouses about the military, but family members as well. An entertaining read, she helps family members deal with deployments with an honest and down to earth approach. A must for all family members facing a deployment, new to the military, or with family members in the military.
Ellie gives concrete advice with contact information for each branch of service along with great ideas to help the entire military family cope.
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Summary: Wonderful and helpful
Review: Ellie Kay's book not only educates spouses about the military, but family members as well. An entertaining read, she helps family members deal with deployments with an honest and down to earth approach. A must for all family members facing a deployment, new to the military, or with family members in the military.
Ellie gives concrete advice with contact information for each branch of service along with great ideas to help the entire military family cope.
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Summary: Heros at Home - From an Army wife
Review: Excellent read, whether you are in the military or not. Several times I would start laughing out loud because it sounded just like my life. Great ideas for brand new wives or old vets, like myself. Perfect timing on the release of the book since more than likely we all have loved ones serving abroad. Perfect book for civilians to realize what a military wife has to cope with.
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Summary: Great book for the new or experienced military spouse!!
Review: I absolutely love this book!! I have chuckled and nodded my head in agreement many times to the things that are written...they are oh so true!! I read this book as an assigment at my field placement for my degree, which I am working along side some very fine people at the Family Support Center at Elmendorf AFB, and I am glad that I have had the opportunity to read it; to get the word out to my fellow military spouse friends to read this book. Thank you for your words of inspiration and hope for the military spouse, the heroes at home!
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Summary: Just what I needed
Review: I have been "married to the Marine Corps" for 12 yrs and still found this book to be helpful. At the time that I picked it up to read I was just getting used to having my husband home from a 9 1/2 mth deployment to the middle east and finding out that he is soon to go back. Needless to say, I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. Reading this book reminded me that I AM one of the "sisters" of military wives. I HAVE done this before and I HAVE and WILL survive. I really enjoy learning about how the other services do things because Marines do things in their own way. I found Mrs Kay's references to "the World's Greatest Fighter Pilot" highly amusing because I call my Marine "poster boy" because he looks just what you think a Marine would look like. I really didnt need some of the advise because I have been around the Corps a time or two, but it was the spirit in which it was given that I enjoyed. Reminding me to take a step back, thank God for the blessings I do have, and just doing what needs doing.
Personally I find other people's stories to be the greatest benefit to me. When I tell people about the time my husband was in Bosnia (and on a med float), I was working full time, had a sick baby, required to move MYSELF due to paperwork snafu's, my car breaking down (the BRAKES went out while driving!!!) being short on boxes, help and only having two weeks to do it all in, they can't help but to say Whoa! But at the time, I did not feel stressed, I just knew that stuff needed to be done and I was the only one here to do it, period. My moving helpers put things down where ever there was space so I ended up with tools on the stove and toys in the utility closet, but when it was all set up a few days later, I can honestly say it was the proudest moment in my life thus far.
Thank you to Mrs Kay for reminding me of what I HAVE done in order to show me that I CAN do this too!!
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Summary: Just what I needed
Review: I have been "married to the Marine Corps" for 12 yrs and still found this book to be helpful. At the time that I picked it up to read I was just getting used to having my husband home from a 9 1/2 mth deployment to the middle east and finding out that he is soon to go back. Needless to say, I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. Reading this book reminded me that I AM one of the "sisters" of military wives. I HAVE done this before and I HAVE and WILL survive. I really enjoy learning about how the other services do things because Marines do things in their own way. I found Mrs Kay's references to "the World's Greatest Fighter Pilot" highly amusing because I call my Marine "poster boy" because he looks just what you think a Marine would look like. I really didnt need some of the advise because I have been around the Corps a time or two, but it was the spirit in which it was given that I enjoyed. Reminding me to take a step back, thank God for the blessings I do have, and just doing what needs doing.
Personally I find other people's stories to be the greatest benefit to me. When I tell people about the time my husband was in Bosnia (and on a med float), I was working full time, had a sick baby, required to move MYSELF due to paperwork snafu's, my car breaking down (the BRAKES went out while driving!!!) being short on boxes, help and only having two weeks to do it all in, they can't help but to say Whoa! But at the time, I did not feel stressed, I just knew that stuff needed to be done and I was the only one here to do it, period. My moving helpers put things down where ever there was space so I ended up with tools on the stove and toys in the utility closet, but when it was all set up a few days later, I can honestly say it was the proudest moment in my life thus far.
Thank you to Mrs Kay for reminding me of what I HAVE done in order to show me that I CAN do this too!!
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Summary: Caring, smart, helpful, and humorous
Review: I loved this book. It's a contemporary look at the reality of today's military family. I think the people who should read it first are those who have no idea about the life those who serve in the military and their families live. The second group for which this should be required reading is the extended families of military members--it'll give them insight to support and understand. Military members and their families will recognize so much, like someone has been reading their mail! I hope it'll help them appreciate their own sacrifices more fully.We're really lucky as a country to have anyone willing to give up so much that the rest of us take for granted. Heroes at Home lets us inside and shoots down stereotypes.
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Summary: There are better books out there.
Review: I purchased this book in preparation for my husband's upcoming deployment, looking for hope and inspiration to get through the year he is away. When I started reading, I related easily to the comical stories and I enjoyed reading the bios of real "Heroes." I thought that for sure I would recommend this book to family and friends. As I continued reading, my opinion of the book changed. A large portion of the book is dedicated to financial advice, and there is also parenting advice and other off-topic, unnecessary advice. If I needed this sort of guidance, I would have purchased a book specifically on one of those subjects. I was expecting this to be a book on military matters, geared toward an intelligent and experienced audience. Advice on helping children cope with a parent's deployment would be very welcome, but I don't need to be told whether to exercise, how to manage my spending, or how much tv to allow my children to watch. There was also much more personal information about the author than I was expecting. While I did enjoy the stories about family life, the author's awards and successes seemed to pop up in many of the chapters and really weren't relevant or valuable to the reader. Her continual reference to her husband as "The World's Greatest Fighter Pilot" didn't add much either. To her credit, she did include some humorous stories about mishaps which made her seem less superhuman. She lists some pages of acronyms and some protocol, and there were a few tidbits of useful information, but most of the information should not be new to any but the most inexperienced of military wives, or civilians. If you already know what a commissary is and that things can be damaged during moves and that deployments can be extended, then you might want to look into a different book. For an encouraging, humorous and emotional book on deployment, I highly recommend Email to the Front by Alesia Holliday. I am currently reading Surviving Deployment by Karen Pavlicin and find it practical and informative, and very well researched. If you need a reference on protocol and military functions, I would suggest Today's Military Wife by Lydia Sloan Cline and/or one of the Handbooks by Ann Crossley.
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Summary: Military wives are our nation's unsung heroes!
Review: I really enjoyed this book!! My father and my husband were both career military men. I wish I had had it when I was a military wife (and daughter)! The challenges faced by military families are definitely unique. In "Heroes at Home",Ellie Kay has offered tremendous insight and help for military families in a humorous way while giving much deserved honor to the families of our military personnel whose contributions are often overlooked. Thanks, Ellie, for helping us remember the Heroes at Home!
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Summary: An AMAZING support during deployment!!!
Review: I received this book as a gift when my husband was recently deployed. I was left at home with a collicky 4 week old baby. Needless to say, I needed all the inspiration and support I could get. This book provided it! This book is very well written. Ellie Kay feels like a best friend holding your hand and helping you keep your chin up during the tough times. This book may not tell you the protocol of military life, but during a deployment, that is the last thing I was seeking. This book is a gem! It is the ideal read for someone going through the difficulty of seperation due to deployment. I thank God for Ellie Kay's words of comfort and wisdom!
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