Enjoying life as a firewife
When my Husband and I met I knew being a Firefighter was his dream job. Like any girl I found this to be extremely attractive. The hiring process where we are from is extreme difficult and long. You go through a written exam, a physical test, and if you pass those you will continue to […]
Time to get Fireside Chats back up and rolling. This week’s question is about nosy people. Those ones that want to know everything going on about calls and if your firefighter went on it. Each week we have been getting a lot of new members to the WBF group. For those of you that are […]
I don’t like poems, but this one speaks to me with every single word. I know for a FireWife site it might be coming off as odd to be posting about it. The things in the poem are an internal battle I’ve gone through for decades and have finally won. It’s how we raised our […]
Self-Care Tip #2 Declutter It is pretty straight forward, the less crap you own, the less you have to deal with. Inside the house are there cluttered areas that you are constantly having to work around or work on to make them look better? Perhaps there is just too much stuff jumping out of all […]
“Don’t sweat the small stuff” they say. And they – whoever “they” is, have a good point. It’s easy to get caught up in all the little things that stress us out and ruin our day. Days in the firelife like this are many. Frankly it’s not worth wasting a lot of energy on a […]
Like it or not, we are social creatures who crave human connections. It is hardwired into our brains because we need to work together to ensure the survival of our species. It only makes sense then that forming and maintaining those connections has an internal reward built in. On the flip side, when we […]
