I’m so glad you have found my blog. I know from my personal experience it has been therapeutic for me to talk to other wives in the fire industry. But it just wasn’t quite enough for me. So here I am.

My name is Val and I’ve been married to my firefighter for 16 years. We’ve been together for 20 and were high school sweethearts. We had a whole other life before the fire department which makes us even more thankful for him getting hired on. He was in construction and worked so many hours and commuted so much that some weeks we hardly saw him.

Then to top it off he became a volunteer (at the time our department was only volunteer) and that would take him away even more. I didn’t begrudge him that time as he truly loved doing it, but it does takes it’s toll. He was a volunteer for about 6 or 7 years before getting hired on paid a little bit after the departments merged. He worked his butt off to get in and I’m so proud of him.  We’re going on 4 years now.

We have two kids 14 and 12 and they are finding their own lives now. I’ll probably talk a lot about my dogs as they become my companions when everyone is gone from the house. lol I own my own businesses online and also offline as a personal trainer. It’s a difficult balance, but so worth it!