Army Household6

I was sitting in a text chatroom the other morning listening to one of my favorite daily internet radio shows, Mom’s Morning Show. (hosted by my friends, Kelly McCausey and Tishia Lee) and the conversation turned to bare walls.

Bare walls are a constant issue for me, as most Army wives. Whenever we move to a new post, we get to make our walls all our own again. We walk into a house or apartment with those white bare walls and in a matter of days, we turn it into a home filled with pictures, our soldiers’ “me” wall, etc.

One way to help with the bare wall syndrome is each time we move to a new place we find something for our walls that represents our time in our new place. For example, from our time living in Minnesota we have a Caribou moose key holder. We also have the Texas Star from our time in Texas.

Now when no matter where we are I can look at our walls and remember people, places, and times in the different places that we have been. It also serves as a reminder of how we’ve grown as individuals but also have as a family.