Hold the Line at Home

Hold the Line at Home 🌊 California firewife
😉 sometimes funny, often feral
📣 telling the truth so fire families don’t feel alone

If you made it through this carousel feeling a little too seen, we should probably save you a seat. 📚Fire Family Collect...
08/18/2026

If you made it through this carousel feeling a little too seen, we should probably save you a seat. 📚

Fire Family Collective Book Club is getting ready for our next read, and we’d love to have you join us.

Read at your own pace. Show up even if you didn’t finish. Come talk about the book and inevitably everything else going on in our lives.

Comment BOOKS and we’ll add you to the waiting list. You’ll be the first to know what we’re reading next. 👀

I was 27 years old, working full time, raising three boys, and trying to get everyone packed and where they needed to be...
08/17/2026

I was 27 years old, working full time, raising three boys, and trying to get everyone packed and where they needed to be so Cameron and I could finally take the honeymoon we had put off for five years.

Then he called from an incident and asked me to pack his suitcase too.

I handled it very maturely. 🙊

Just kidding. I screamed at him until he hung up on me, put our two-year-old in the bathtub, and cried on the bathroom floor.

We did eventually make it to Maui.

What happened between that phone call and the week we spent there is a story I understand very differently eleven years later.

I Was Not Packing His Damn Suitcase is out now on Substack. I’ll send you a link if you comment “PACKED” below!👇🧳

08/17/2026

A very specific collection of things that somehow became part of who I am. ❤️

Nobody tells you when you fall in love with a firefighter how many tiny things will eventually become completely normal. Checking Watch Duty. Keeping plans flexible. Saying “be safe” every time he leaves. Knowing takeout is always a perfectly reasonable response to a holdover.

Some of them I learned the hard way. Some of them I actually love.

Eighteen years later, I’m still asking when he’s coming home and still getting excited when he does.

What would you add to the list? 🔥

08/15/2026

Coming home exhausted and overstimulated after being at work for days is pretty normal.

Coming home and immediately being irritated with everyone in the house? Sir. We have also had a week. 😂

Re-entry can be rough. He’s tired, I’ve been running the house without him, the kids are excited Dad’s home, and suddenly everyone is in everyone else’s space again.

That’s exactly why re-entry plans are so helpful. Does your family have one?

Comment REENTRY below and I’ll send you my free guide! 📋👇

08/15/2026

Respectfully, none of us know. 😂🔥

He might be home tonight. He might get held over. He might get sent somewhere else. He might call and say he’s headed home and then text twenty minutes later that plans changed.

That’s fire season math.

How y’all holding up?

Nobody handed me a manual before the first time my firefighter left on a strike team assignment. I mostly learned this s...
08/14/2026

Nobody handed me a manual before the first time my firefighter left on a strike team assignment. I mostly learned this stuff by living it. So, consider this 👆🏼the conversation I wish another firewife had had with me.

Veteran firewives, what would you add? What do you wish someone had told you before the first one?

08/13/2026

I’ve been a firewife long enough to know that getting good at this life and actually enjoying your life are two very different things.

Some lessons took me a few months to figure out. Some took years. A few I’m probably still learning.

If you could sit down with yourself during your first year loving a firefighter, what would you tell her?

Tell me in the comments. I have a feeling someone newer to this life needs to hear what you’ve learned. ❤️👇

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