Military spouses don't get to have a 5-year plan. Most of the time that's ok with me, because you know who else had a 5-year plan? Stalin. And that didn't go so well. So I like to think that I am a flexible military spouse who has become comfortable with having a 1-3...
We drove across the country in 6 days with 4 young children. And we actually have fond memories of the trip! Here are the sanity-saving hacks you can use on your next car ride.
5 Things I Learned from Our Military Family's DITY Moves Military families have a choice to make when they get PCS orders: should you let the military moving companies move you, or move yourselves? The second option is commonly called a DITY move or Do-it-Yourself...
An overseas move allows two separate shipments. The Express shipment is flown in and will be your only supplies for your first few weeks in the new country.
PCS season can be challenging when you aren’t moving but your friends are. This article focuses on the flip side of PCS moves: the military families left behind.
You’ll learn the challenges of staying put during PCS season, and coping strategies when your friends are moving away.
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...
If you have spent any time living overseas, you know it can be fun... and challenging, too. Two years ago, we left Spain to return to America. Like some lucky military families, we had the opportunity to receive orders overseas. We lived in Southern Spain at Naval...
Here are the details about what to pack when you move overseas (and what to leave behind!) When you get orders to move overseas, you start to look at all of your belongings differently. We definitely started to question, "Why do we have so much stuff?" The good news...
4 Ways to Learn About Your New Duty Station Before You Move The first time we moved to a new duty station with my husband's military orders, it was six hours away to a state neither one of us had visited before. We had one weekend to visit and go house-hunting. We...