http://blogs.babiesonline.com/holidays/when-daddys-away-for-the-holidays/ News & Information about parenting, pregnancy, and Babies Online's services Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/holidays/when-daddys-away-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-12025 Science-mom Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:16:29 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/?p=7309#comment-12025 Aw, T...Hugs to you and M and all the best. Aw, T…Hugs to you and M and all the best.

]]> http://blogs.babiesonline.com/holidays/when-daddys-away-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-12022 MrsH Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:16:01 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/?p=7309#comment-12022 Melissa you have wonderful and helpful suggestions. Thank you for them, I'm crying just reading the flat daddy part. Melissa you have wonderful and helpful suggestions. Thank you for them, I’m crying just reading the flat daddy part.

]]> http://blogs.babiesonline.com/holidays/when-daddys-away-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-12020 Melissa H Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:42:53 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/?p=7309#comment-12020 Support support support. Look for it anywhere that it is offered. Join the family readiness group that is attached to your husband's deployment group. It is a group of moms and wives just like you. If there isn't one.... start one. There are other women who need the same help. If you live close to your in-laws or parents enlist them to help. See if they will take the baby for a day or a weekend. Grampa and Grandma on Dad's side will be just as focused as you on keeping Daddy as an active part of life. Start buying phone cards now! Use them. Have your daughter help to make boxes to send overseas to your husband. Tell her that you are sending long distance kisses and hugs and have her draw a picture a day. Take a picture a day and send it by e-mail. Get a Flat Daddy! You can get one free if he is sent overseas. Sit that thing at the dinner table and take it to the park with you. Take pictures of her with it and send it to daddy. I have a million other ideas for you.... but so little time and space. If you get creative you will find a million ways that I haven't thought of yet. But reach out for the help where you can find it. Churches often have groups of ladies that can help out with babysitting. Remember YOU though. Take the time to make sure that you are okay. You are not just the mommy of a little girl whose daddy is gone... you are also the wife of a soldier who is gone and so you have to remember yourself. Do little things to keep your chin up... You'll get through it. It seems a lot longer than it is.... each day leads to the next and pretty soon it is over and behind you. Support support support. Look for it anywhere that it is offered. Join the family readiness group that is attached to your husband’s deployment group. It is a group of moms and wives just like you. If there isn’t one…. start one. There are other women who need the same help. If you live close to your in-laws or parents enlist them to help. See if they will take the baby for a day or a weekend. Grampa and Grandma on Dad’s side will be just as focused as you on keeping Daddy as an active part of life. Start buying phone cards now! Use them. Have your daughter help to make boxes to send overseas to your husband. Tell her that you are sending long distance kisses and hugs and have her draw a picture a day. Take a picture a day and send it by e-mail. Get a Flat Daddy! You can get one free if he is sent overseas. Sit that thing at the dinner table and take it to the park with you. Take pictures of her with it and send it to daddy. I have a million other ideas for you…. but so little time and space. If you get creative you will find a million ways that I haven’t thought of yet. But reach out for the help where you can find it. Churches often have groups of ladies that can help out with babysitting. Remember YOU though. Take the time to make sure that you are okay. You are not just the mommy of a little girl whose daddy is gone… you are also the wife of a soldier who is gone and so you have to remember yourself. Do little things to keep your chin up… You’ll get through it. It seems a lot longer than it is…. each day leads to the next and pretty soon it is over and behind you.

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