Cari Bertolas

Cari Bertolas

 Cari was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She got her degree in Youth Leadership from UW-Milwaukee and then married her high school sweetheart, Ryan. She is a proud Navy wife and they currently live in Virginia Beach, VA. They are die hard Green Bay Packers fans who even named their chocolate lab ‘Beau’, after Lambeau Field. You can usually find her drinking chai lattes, pretending she’s Adele in the car, or talking on the phone for hours to her Circle of Friends who are scattered all over the country.

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    A Love Like This

    By | 05.18.12

    My cleaning helper.

    I’m going to tell you a little secret about being a military spouse: I don’t clean up until about 12 hours before my sailor gets home from the ship. Sometimes less.

    I wish I was the kind of person who wrote out daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning tasks and stuck to them. I wish I could make Martha proud with my good housekeeping skills. But alas, one month ago when I dropped my handsome husband off at the ship, I not only kissed him

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    A Love Like This

    By | 05.11.12
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    My name is Cari and I have a confession to make.

    I am a junk food junkie.

    I am openly admitting my love of all things deep fried and refined. Twinkies, pizza rolls, potato chips and Coke, bagels bites and Toaster Strudels, McDoubles bought in cash so I don’t leave a paper trail for my husband’s disapproving eyes; I am a full out naughty eater. As I grow up and my body gently reminds me that I’m not in college any more and maybe it wouldn’t hurt to eat a

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    A Love Like This

    By | 05.04.12
    Photo Courtesy of Jennifer Gusey

    Photo Courtesy of Jennifer Gusey

    It’s not over. I’m really just beginning.

    God has been telling me this a lot lately. Whispering it, really. As I look out on the stories that are unfolding in front of me, my stories and the stories of the people I love, I often find myself brokenhearted by what I see. He lost his dream job, she is sinking into depression, their marriage is crumbling apart. All around us hearts are breaking.The story sometimes looks hopeless. It all looks like a

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    A Love Like This

    By | 04.27.12
    The long road.

    Two weeks ago, Ryan and I made the long road trip from Virginia to Milwaukee for a close friend’s wedding.

    Ryan and I are road trip pros. We’ve driven his little black Jetta all over the country and we’ve gotten pretty good at the road trip routine. I made sure to pack a “car bag” full of candy and snacks and loaded with audio books and fashion magazines. Beau was nestled in the back seat and we got a good playlist going on the iPod.

    As we

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