Finalist for Celebrating Forces Families Awards!

With so much adversity in the world, and in particular amongst military families, I feel humbled to be a finalist for the Celebrating Forces Families (CFF) Overcoming Adversity Award, which I feel could be given to so many in our community. The award is for a military family member who has achieved success despite living through an unfortunate event and who has experienced difficult challenges. I am in a category with a couple of other inspirational women and I am excited to be meeting them and other people in the military community who have become virtual friends. 

I learnt from my experience as a military wife and now a widow and mother of two bereaved children that forces families face many mental, emotional, social and physical challenges that are unique to all of us. I am hugely grateful for the nomination and I have a mixture of anxiety and excitement about heading to the Big Smoke for a night in a posh frock! The winners will be announced at the CFF Awards Evening on 29th April 2022 in London and you can read more about the event here.

In the meantime, huge congratulations to the other finalists and my heart goes out to everyone in our Forces community at a time when the world seems so unsettled.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards.
It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
- Julia Child