Home Sweet North Carolina

     Im in NC with my husband now, afer a long time coming. When I 1st got here I had alot if trouble getting a rental car. They wouldnt let me rent one because I didnt have a credit card, only debit, and I had nothing to attach me NC because my husband wasnt home yet. So when my husband finally called he got ahold of a few friends from his shop on base and they helpped me out. FINALLY people who care bout us. I've always heard of "Military familys" and how they always have your back, well, this really proved it to me. they asked around the shop to see if anyone had an extra car that I could use and some one did! They let me use it for a week till my husband got home. They didnt even know me but htey were friends with Zack, my husband, so, anything to help out a fellow marine, they jump on it!

   Zack and I didnt have a place to live as soon as he came home because we were waiting for base housing to open up. BASE HOUSING: a house that is on base and only military person can live in that specific communtity. Usually Marines that are married. depending on the base there is well over 2-6+ month waiting list to get a house on base. A few guys from Zacks shop cam together and pulled some strings and got us into CO & NCO (commission/non-commission officer, which is really high up ranks then my husband)  we are very lucky that we got the strings pulled for us bc normal LCpl (Lance Corpal, which Zack is) get a apartment to live in, they are nice but we got an actual house... a 3 bed room house to be exact! WOOP!

     Zack met a guy by the name of Miles out in Afghanistan, and he is going through a RUFF devorce, so Zack offered him to stay with us till his devorce is final and untill he can get his own place. A month later we have 2 roommates and it feels like every weekend we have the hole shop passing out at our house. I wake up on the weekend and we have atleast 4 people on the couches and floor. I dont really mind because they are all super cool and super super funny! Im glad I met them!

   Also, We drove my car up to NC from FL the other day with all my stuff I left in FL,and about 2 hours in (orlando) i got a flat tire. it took stupid Wal-mart 3 hours to give us a new tire because they were "short handed". A customer who got there just before us threw a fit to the manager and 5 mins later we were on our way. As soon as we got here we had to get just a 12 hour pass to get on base because it was 3a and the next morning we had to get a real pass. Well march is my birthday and thats when my registration needed to get renewed so they wouldnt let my car on base. so for the past week our friends had to ddrive us around... once again I love the "military family" life style.

   I was always told that I shouldnt be friends with the military wives because they are all stay at home wives/mothers and all they do all day is sit around coming up with ways to panic about the our husbands deployment. but thats a very very few amount of wives that are like that, and I know to stay clear of that kind of drama! But overall everyone has been super nice and I have 2 friends that are wives, one of which is my husbands best friend and we all get along great and we all help eachother out as much as we can!

If your a military wife/girlfriend, tell me a story of when the military came together to help you on your time of need!!

Love you all,