Military Resources
Getting ready for a military PCS move is incredibly stressful for many families. If you've ever checked out the Holmes and Rahe Stress scale, you can see that moving even within the same city is considered fairly stressful. One thing that can help reduce stress during a military PCS move is keeping important documents in order and [...]
Schedule / RoutineBest Kitchen Cleaning Hacks for Busy Moms
Cleaning your kitchen without the use of toxic chemicals is not only easy, it's also incredibly affordable. DIY essential oil cleaning recipes are incredibly quick to make on the fly and they actually work!! A few months ago we completely overhauled our home cleaning, exchanging out traditional toxic cleaners for these essential oil [...]
Mom LifeThe Parenting Differences We All Should Ignore
When I my son was first born, I struggled immensely. Everything felt so overwhelming. Life with a newborn was not so easy-peasy for this mama. And then at 6 weeks everything changed. We put our son on a schedule and we never looked back. In addition to creating a schedule we did several other things—swaddling, encouraging full [...]
Best Moving Overseas Checklist for Military Families
If you are preparing for a military overseas PCS move then you definitely want a moving overseas checklist! Moving overseas can be a very stressful time for military families. It certainly was for us! I will spare you the long version of the story, but my husband was away at school in another state as we were preparing to move overseas to [...]
Why Moms Need Routines Just as Much as Kids Do
You probably hear it all the time—kids thrive on routines. It’s totally true, and there is a substantial amount of research to back up the idea. Routines offer children safety and security in the midst of a very chaotic world. Routines help kids prepare for what comes next in a sequence of events and eliminate frequent power struggles [...]
Running Errands with a Toddler? 2 Minutes to Save your Sanity
Errands with a toddler is like going on a trip wearing a blindfold. You really don’t know what to expect until you get there. I’ve somehow entered into this frequent errand pattern like some sort of a bad 80s rut. It’s not because I actually want to run errands that often. Believe me. I don’t have some strange love affair with errands. [...]
8 Things Only a Mother Would Do One-Handed
There is a heck of a lot of stuff that moms do crazy different after kids come into the picture. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it’s hard to get stuff done when a child wants to be held on and off throughout the day. This is when moms start using their one-handed tricks because they don’t have time to wait around all. day. long. [...]
DeploymentLearning to Reconnect After a Military Deployment
I remember several years back when my husband was preparing to leave for a military deployment. He was in serious packing mode. Of course, he realized 47 things he forgot to pack the night before he was supposed to leave. Our house looked like it had been ransacked. Stuff flying everywhere. This was our normal. He was leaving for a war [...]
MilSpouse LifeA Commander’s Wife Tells All: My Life Doesn’t Revolve Around the Military
Note: This is a guest post written anonymously by a commander's wife. I'm just going to start out saying it. I don't want to be in charge of the spouses club. I've never been a very good member of the spouses club. I don't attend socials, I don't volunteer with the annual chili cook offs or craft sales, I don't even attend the annual [...]
Bored Toddler? Try This 20 Minute Cardboard Box Car
Sometimes I look around our house and I wonder why we have all this stuff. I'm always shoving more and more toys in the closet in attempt to minimize the toy explosion that seems to perpetually invade my house. Recently, we've been trying something new around here---not playing with toys at all! {shudder} Yes. That's right. We [...]
