Spending the holidays with my parents can be refreshing and make deployment speed by. It can also be a huge stressful headache. Whether you are just visiting your parents, or living with them during a deployment, here are some tips for surviving your time at your parents’ house.
How to decide on the perfect gifts for service members during deployment? Use this secret to find the perfect gift for every care package!
It wasn’t until I lived outside of America that I realized how much of the Fall season is a cultural celebration. Yet in many parts of the world, ‘pumpkin spice’ is a foreign language.
The effects of September 11 hit home a few weeks later, when my boyfriend went off to Boot Camp. I watched my boyfriend prepare for war. I watched our country declare war. I stood by and supported him as a girlfriend, then his wife, while he fought on the front lines of that war. Again. And again, and again. It is a war that we continue to fight today.
How to Host Family Visitors in Base Housing When you live on base, it can be tricky to invite family to visit. They will want to know if you are allowed to have visitors in base housing. The short answer is yes, but you must prepare paperwork in advance. And you might...
Service and sacrifice are built into military life, so Christian military spouses are uniquely equipped to deal with the stress and challenge of the COVID-19 restrictions.
If you feel caught in the repetitious cycle of military life, then you might have something to learn from the Groundhog Day movie.
Being able to plan Girls Night Out is part of deployment survival. If you have an event to look forward to--whether it is one weekend or one month from now--then you can live off of that positive energy for a while. Social events provide a great distraction, give you...
What deployment goals do you set for yourself throughout military life? Military life can bring a lot of change for a military spouse: frequent moves, deployments, maybe a new job. There could be a new baby too! Life may be different during various stages of military...
Military spouses are lucky. We have chances all throughout the year to recreate ourselves, redefine ourselves, and improve ourselves. So if your resolutions from January 1 are not working out so well, consider these other times when you can make new resolutions.