When Carla Lois's youngest son, Noah, deployed to Iraq in January 2005, she began an online journal, "Some Soldier's Mom", to write about what it was like to have a child at war. In 2005 and again in 2006, it was voted the "Military Blog of the Year -- Military Parent". In 2006, the powerful story of the August 2005 night when the Army called to tell her that her son had been seriously wounded in Iraq was included in The Blog of War, a book of blog postings by front line American soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq, edited by Matt Burden (a/k/a Blackfive).