Are there any milblogs in particular that you would recommend?
Mudvillegazette
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/
Blackfive
http://www.blackfive.net/
Michael Yon
http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/
The Belmont Club
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Blogs of War
http://www.blogsofwar.com/
Got a couple of hundred more. :-)
I really need to get a life!
Your real family back home, wife/children/mother/father, likely have no way to understand what you are doing or what you have done. They most likely have no frame of reference for what you are doing, for how intense your life is on a minute-by-minute basis. In the ideal world, you would have some time to come back to earth to relearn how to be a human after being out on the front lines. Usually that never happens. You are home and 'poof' it's back to normal. Except its not. Now you have to deal with being a husband/wife/mother/father. The parenting thing may be new, something that occurred when you were gone. Your loved ones may wonder where you are after you get back, because this is not the same person that left 6/12/18/24 months ago.