Army Wife Slogans

Life in the military makes you familiar with the various unit/branch slogans.
Such as the Marine Corp's "Semper Fi", 2nd ACR "Toujour Pret", and "Ne Desit Virtus" ("Let Valor Not Fail") and my favorite "Ranger On". One lesser known slogan is among the Army wives themselves.
My French is a little rusty but the slogan is this: "Mettez vos culottes grande fille et s'en occuper"
Roughly translated it means: Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!
(what did you expect something profound?)

Army wives are faced with enormous difficulty. Unfortunately, we can't solve all of our problems in less than an hour with commerical breaks for Tampex, Midol and Cialis. When our husbands deploy, go TDY or just simply to the field, chaos is sure to follow.
Our cars breakdown, our children get sick, and there seems to always be some sort of natural disaster. Since my husband deployed this last time (4 months ago), so far we've had multiple trips to the ER, 2 tornadoes, a flooded home, 2 Extremely ill parents, a rash of burglaries and an psychotic racoon living in my garage.
My new "pet" is apparently big enough to move a flak vest, and scare off 2 pest control men. One of which dropped of a cage and said he'd be right back. That was a month ago. One can only assume he's entered into some sort of witness protection program.
When things of this nature happen, we can sit down, cry and yell at whom ever is willing to listen. Or we can put on our big girl panties. I'll be the first to admit, this is easier said then done. There have been times, I've wanted to strangle someone with those panties instead of wearing them. However, logic sets in and I will typically realize the only thing that will get me is a visit from the MPs and a whole lot of paperwork done in my newly bared ass.

So the moral of todays blog...Being an Army wife, means not showing your ass. (unless they really deserve it, of course)