Mom Life
At 6:30 am I peeled my tired body from the pillow-top mattress and walked into the bathroom. I caught a glimpse of a stranger in the mirror, and it scared the goldfish crumbs right out of my hair. Then I realized it was me in the mirror, except I looked a heck of a lot scarier than I remembered. Dang. My eyes look like I painted black [...]
Military ResourcesMilitary Families: Take Your Dream Vacation With Armed Forces Vacation Club®
A huge thank you to Armed Forces Vacation Club® for sponsoring this post! For the first time in years the kids are with a babysitter and my husband and I are on vacation—alone. It’s almost like we forgot how to enjoy ourselves without the constant interruption of little voices shouting our names and little hands tugging at our [...]
MilSpouse LifeI Married “Old” in Military Life, and I’m So Glad I Waited
It had been 6 years. 6 years of a committed relationship filled with love and happiness. 6 years of us growing up from teenagers to young adults. 6 years of a relationship most thought was destined for marriage. And today that relationship was ending. I remember standing inside the garage of the apartment my boyfriend and I [...]
Schedule / Routine5 Awesome Tips for Leaving the House on Time with Kids
You are on your third attempt to run errands with two kids. Two kids. That’s it. Everyone makes it seem so easy, then you actually try it first hand and it feels like you’re on minute to win it—except the minute takes more like an hour. It goes something like this… You fed the baby, changed the diaper, asked your toddler to go [...]
How to Build the Military Spouse Community You Always Wanted
Traveling to the East Coast to visit my active duty boyfriend for the first time, I got my first taste of what the military community was like. It was a discouraging experience. I flew back to my home in the Midwest thinking that military life was not for me. After a weekend filled with beaches, social barbeques, and night life, you would [...]
What Every Mom Needs to Know About Her Post Baby Body
By some grand miracle I managed to escape my first pregnancy without a single stretch mark on my belly; with my second pregnancy, not so much. My second baby—a girl—weighed a whopping 10 pounds 7 ounces. With each passing day of the last trimester, she grew bigger and bigger. Not surprisingly, so did the web of stretch marks across my [...]
25 Genius Life Hacks for Military Spouses
With all the unique ups and downs of military life, every military spouse can use a few military life hacks to keep life running smoothly. When chatting with other spouses at the playground or over a cup of coffee, I'm always surprised to learn that many spouses don't know about these life hacks. [...]
6 Things You Need to Know About the Military Pay Stub (LES)
Military benefits are confusing! I'm so glad Elizabeth Colegrove from The Reluctant Landlord is willing to share her knowledge of military benefits with us and helping us decode the military pay stub! For military families, getting on your feet financially can be overwhelming. For me the hardest part about becoming a [...]
7 Must Try Tech Tips for the Modern Military Family
MILITARY LIFE is tricky sometimes. There are a lot of moving parts, especially when it comes to demanding work schedules, kids' activities, TDY, homecoming and deployment. My husband and I had a heck of a time staying on the same page when we were first getting serious and then again after we were first married. It seemed there was a [...]
What Science Tells Us About Co-Sleeping vs. Sleep-Training
Awake again with a baby in the middle of the night, watching heinous reruns of Keeping Up with the Kardashians (What else is on a 3 am?), you dream of the nights when you slept more than 2 consecutive hours in a row. You’re exhausted. You're a tired mom. After months of sleep deprivation and looking at endless baby sleep tips, you know [...]
