This page includes affiliate links. It's Back-to-School time, which means the kids will finally be out of the house during the day. YAY!!! (said every mom everywhere.) But sending the kids to school often means new clothes, new shoes, backpacks, lunch boxes, and of...
The only way I've made it through my husband's seven overseas deployments was with a little help from my friends. OK, sometimes it was a lot of help. And sometimes the friends were organizations and services that are available all over the country. As we went through...
Bikes: Some military families can’t afford to give their child a new bike for Christmas. But with help from the USO’s “That’s my Ride” Program, you can! Volunteers assemble thousands of bikes to give to needy families.
When you have kids, a work from home summer is a huge challenge. Work from home parents often get their work done while the kids are in school. When summer hits, they face an interesting challenge: how to continue working without spending all their income on...
Try These Free Summer Activities for Military Kids It's summer, and we still have a long time until the kids go back to school. If this is a deployment year for your family, it may seem like summer is dragging on forever. But don't worry, there are plenty of easy ways...
These military discount ideas are perfect for a family vacation, a local staycation, or a destination getaway! Get vacation discounts for your next adventure.
Here's how our military family got a free Christmas tree during deployment I didn't want to celebrate Christmas without a Christmas tree. But this year, I didn't buy a tree. It was mainly because my husband was deployed. But also because... our base offered free...
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...
These work-from-home career are portable for any PCS move, which makes them the perfect military spouse remote jobs to take with you whenever you move.
Here’s how to handle deployment with military kids at different ages.