someone e-mailed this to a yahoogroup today, and I immediately thought of you.....
25 Ways you know that you are a Military spouse- You yell at your kids saying, "Don't make me email your father!"
- Your neighbors know you but have never seen your active-duty husband.
- Your conversations are sprinkled with PCS, TAD, LES, etc., and you know what they mean.
- You have had 8 address changes in 9 years and you are not on the run from the law.
- The front hall closet of your home is designated as a uniform closet.
- Your spouse will be gone for 2 weeks from his job and you think, "Is that all? No problem."
- The radiator blows up on the car and the washing machine dies just as your spouse leaves for temporary duty.
- You aren't surprised when you get 4 days notice for a 4 month deployment.
- You don't know your own Social Security number, but you know your spouses by heart.
- You are in a disagreement with a bill collector and say, "Let me speak to your commander!"
- You spend your second wedding anniversary alone.
- You move your day care business from one state to another and still have the same children enrolled.
- You have a collection of different shapes, sizes, and colors of window treatments for the same room.
- Your heart races when you hear the doorbell ring during a deployment.
- You've done more oil changes and mowed more lawns than your spouse because he's never there to do it himself.
- You remember milestones by duty stations.
- All your kids, including your 2 yr old, stop what they are doing and put their hands over their hearts whenever they hear the national anthem.
- You can sleep through the sounds of fighter planes and bombers during their morning practice.
- You reach for your ID card when entering a civilian store.
- You ask someone to hold on by saying, "Standby."
- Your kids point at anyone wearing BDUs and boots, regardlessof race or gender and yell "Daddy!" or "Mommy!"
- You tell the movers the correct way to pack.
- You notice when Hollywood makes mistakes in portraying the military.
- Military homecomings on TV bring tears to your eyes because you can relate so well.
- You start to read the Army Times in place on Cosmopolitan