The first week of deployment can be an emotional roller-coaster. Here’s how you can get through it, military spouse or military loved one!
10 Essential Ways to Maintain Parked Cars (During Deployment)
10 Ways for Military Spouses to Maintain Parked Cars During Deployment The problem: your spouse is leaving their car in the driveway during deployment. Keep reading because: You want to learn how to prevent a dead battery and flat tires, and the basics to maintain...
Pre-Deployment Checklist to Help Military Spouses
The problem: You are preparing for deployment and don't know where to start! Keep reading because: This pre-deployment checklist and Ultimate Deployment Guide will tell you everything you need to know about how to get ready for deployment! Here is the pre-deployment...
7 Fun Deployment Countdown Displays
7 Fun ways to do a deployment countdown Deployment countdowns can be one of the fun things about deployment! Every day passed is another day closer to them coming home. Sometimes it is frustrating to watch a countdown creep along so slowly. But then there comes a day...
5 Love Languages for Deployments
Long-distance relationships and deployments are challenging for all 5 love languages. Thankfully, there are ways to express love, even across the distance.
Volunteers Do Yard Work for Military Families
Project EverGreen’s GreenCare for Troops program is an incredible network of volunteers—in all 50 states—who do yard work for free for military families with a deployed service member. At the time my husband was in Afghanistan, I had no idea this program existed. But now I know more about the wonderful service they provide to families going through deployment. Who knew there were volunteers out there, with lawn equipment, ready to help military spouses like me?
Free Christmas Trees for Military Families
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...
9 Free Summer Activities for Military Kids
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...
4 Ways to Learn About Your New Duty Station
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...
13 Perfect Military Spouse Remote Jobs to PCS-Proof Your Career
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.