Deployment
I heard the phone ringing and the feeling of pins and needles immediately rippled from my shoulders down to my fingertips. I was right in the middle of giving my son a bath. With urgency in my voice, I told my son, “Hurry daddy’s on the phone. It’s time to get out.” I scurried to pull my son out of the bath, grab a towel, and run to the [...]
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Mom LifeThe Busy Moms Guide to Looking Great in 10 Minutes or Less
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 LifeHow 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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Survive the Holidays Alone During Deployment
Alone for the holidays as a military spouse in Costal North Carolina, I was exactly 1,051.3 miles from my family in the Midwest while my husband was deployed. It was the most difficult holiday season of my life. Working as a critical care nurse, I had a life that was filled with responsibility and obligations. It wasn’t all that easy to [...]
How to Encourage a Military Spouse (when she needs it most)
I’ve been hearing a lot of stories lately about military spouses feeling sad, defeated, and quite frankly drained from military life. Blogger Jennifer Smith shared it recently in a post called I Didn’t Sign Up for This. In the post she writes, “I was devastated. Where were all these welcoming wives I had been told of? Where was my call [...]
How to Help Kids Feel at Home After a PCS Move
Moving with kids is a difficult transition. Even if you spend your days cross-checking a moving overseas checklist or a regular PCS checklist, moving remains a big life change. When we moved to Japan, it took our son a good month to fully transition back to normal everyday life. Between night-waking and behavioral issues, I know the move [...]
The Road Less Traveled: How to Find Your Way as a Military Spouse
It’s no secret around here that I was fairly reluctant to travel the road of military spouse. At least initially, I struggled to envision myself as a woman capable of handling all the ups and downs of military life. I don’t think that is an unusual perspective though. Military spouses are a teeny, tiny fraction of the U.S. Population. [...]
6 Things Military Spouses Need to Consider Before Choosing a College
This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Martinsburg College. All opinions are my own. I remember applying to college years ago, and I actually used pen and paper and mailed in my application. It makes me laugh just thinking about it because it wasn’t even that long ago! Things have changed dramatically since then with everything [...]
