How to Beat the Deployment Curse When Everything is Breaking During Deployment Call it the Deployment Curse, or call it Murphy's Law of deployment. It's the same thing: everything will start to go wrong and fall apart the day your military family member leaves the...
Is your house clean during military deployments? Or do you wait for PCS cleaning? Confession time... I'm not very good at cleaning. It could be because I have 5 crazy kids, so the house is never clean for more than a few minutes. Sure, I clean my kitchen daily, and...
The deployment slacker's guide Sometimes, during military deployments, I feel like an awesome and supportive wife. Other times I feel like a deployment slacker. This is our 6th deployment. I was taking care of our 4 kids full time. So I had to streamline my time and...
To the military spouse still waiting for normal military life... My husband is always packing bags, but he never quite unpacks them. A few weeks ago, my husband returned from a month-long training mission. Each month before that, he was gone for a week to train. A...
If you feel caught in the repetitious cycle of military life, then you might have something to learn from the Groundhog Day movie.
Here’s how you can tell if you live in military base housing: Do you need to show a government ID card to get to your house? Are “Welcome home!” signs hanging on the garage doors?
What is the rudest thing anyone has said to you as a military spouse? Being a military spouse can be a tough position. Not only do you put up with all the military craziness, but sometimes you hear rude or stupid comments from civilians, too. I recently asked my...
Military dependents are often strong, independent individuals. And they don’t like the term ‘dependent.’ But here’s all the things military spouses truly rely on when their service member is away.
This post is sponsored by The Breastfeeding Shop. Here's what's on every new mom's Christmas list! It’s the time of year when you start seeing gift guides for every person in your life. For a new mom, these guides might suggest pampering products like body cream,...
We don’t have to become best friends, but I hope that we can be friendly neighbors who help each other out. I’ll start. I’ve been keeping a batch of cookies in the freezer, knowing that someone would move in soon. They are for you… as long as my children don’t eat them or smash them first. Someone once made cookies for me, and their kindness got me through the first week of a challenging PCS. I am happy to pay it forward to you.