Be Safe, Love Mom

A Military Mom's Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Home Front

By: Elaine Lowry Brye

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

When you enlist in the United States military, you don't just sign yourself up for years of duty - you also commit your loved ones to a life of service all their own.

No one knows this better than Elaine Brye, an army brat turned military wife turned military mom of four officers, each serving in a different branch of the military: air force, army, marine corps, and navy.

Brye's father and mother met while both serving in the US Army, and her childhood was that of a typical army brat, with frequent moves - some to faraway countries - dinner-table conversations full of military lingo, an ever-present anxiety during her father's deployments to Vietnam and elsewhere, and family vacations to national monuments and battlefields. In 1976 - the first year women were accepted in the service academies and ROTC - Brye herself enlisted in the air force, where she would later meet her husband, an air force pilot.

Now Elaine Brye is a mom to four military officers, and for more than a decade she's endured countless teary goodbyes, sparse communication from boot camps and training summers, deployments, emotional airport reunions, empty chairs at Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless hours waiting for phone calls in the night. She's navigated the complicated tangle of emotions - pride, worry, fear, hope, and deep, enduring love - that accompanies life as a military mom.

In Be Safe, Love Mom Brye reflects on her family's military service and offers a lifetime's worth of insight, comfort, and wisdom and a bit of humor to fellow military moms who are navigating the unpredictable life that accompanies having a child - or children - in uniform.

©2015 Elaine Lowry Brye and Nan Gatewood Satter (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Well done and helpful!

As a new Army mom, I found this book fascinating and very helpful. I’m sure I will refer back to it often!
The Audible reading voice was not my favorite.

Thank you for this book!

This really hit home for me as our son is out on his 3rd deployment! Wonderful encouragement and advice. Thank you again!

I keep reading this book over and over !

Totally recommend this book to all those Military Mothers out there ❤️it has helped a lot to go through this new chapter in our lives .

Wish I'd have had this book years ago.

It is, at its core, a well crafted set of guidelines for mothers whose children are active duty military - both stateside and deployed - but beyond that, this book is a call for the support of our armed forces, and a reminder to the world that all military personnel are somebody's daughters and sons. It is written with the decorum and eloquence that only a military parent can provide. Thank you, to the author. I wish I'd had this book many years ago. And thank you for YOUR service and sacrifice.

Truth about the miitary mom life

As a fellow military mom it just made this life all come together, great read

A must for military moms!

This book answers a lot of questions about the roller coaster of moms whose children join the military. It is a whole new world without a manual on what all the acronyms mean or why scheduled are so tentative. Great read, but requires tissues!

Military Moms Must Read ❤🇺🇲

This is an amazing read that hits home for any Military Mom...We are one Family ❤🇺🇲

A MoM's Review

I've listened to this book at least 3times and I'm sure I'll listen that many more.

For all military moms to be.

This was very good. Always looking for military based books, very hard to find, even in a bookstore or library.

Grab the Kleenex

Such a great story. I have the audio version. The narration is monotone, so I would sometimes pause the audio and repeat what I heard with the emotion or inflection I felt was in the author’s heart. Probably better to read than listen to, but I do recommend this book for any military mom.