MilSpouse Life
Inside: We love to taut the resilience of military kids, but the truth is, it's hard. What do you do when your military kid isn't feeling all that resilient? I watched everything in my room get wrapped in layers of brown packing paper and put into boxes labeled "Boy Room." My trophies and favorite legos were stuffed down deep into [...]
About Valli Gideons
What I’ve Learned After Two Decades of Being a Military Spouse…
I often wonder what I would share with the young bride, who crossed through that sword arch on that warm July day more than two decades ago, about military life. That's the thing about perspective... You have to get some life under your belt, jump over hurdles, endure some bumps and rough patches to find the deeper meaning. After [...]
The Reality of Raising Teens in a Military Family
When I was in my twenties and preparing to walk down the aisle to marry my Marine over twenty years ago, someone asked me if I thought I could handle being a military wife. I wondered if other brides got asked the same question. I’d never been married, after all. And I certainly didn’t know what military life would be [...]
