When your spouse joins the military, one of the things you have to be okay with is raising your children away from family. You won’t always be stationed close to home. You might be across the country, or even the ocean from everything you have ever known. This can be hard to adjust to and…
Giving Birth When Your Spouse Is Deployed
Giving birth when your spouse is deployed is common in the military spouse community. If you walk into a room of Military spouses and ask how many of them have given birth when their spouse was deployed, you would get quite a few hands. It is something that has happened to a lot of us….
What Military Spouses Want Their Civilian Friends to Know
I saw them every day. I went to school with them. Military kids. I remember driving on base to pick up a friend. I think the gate guards had to call her house to get their okay to let us in. This was pre-9/11 of course. I remember hearing about how my friend’s dad always…
Famous Military Veterans: Tom Selleck Served in the Military
Tom Selleck is one of my favorite actors! He is also a veteran, having served in the California National Guard.
4 Things to Do When the Military Cancel Your Plans
You don’t have to be a military spouse for too long to have had the military cancel your plans. Whether it is something small, like a date you had planned, or an appointment you needed them to be with you at, to bigger things such as a deployment changing its dates, or a move being…
9 Reasons Why Being A Military Spouse Is Amazing
Growing up, I didn’t think a whole lot about if the person I married in the future would be in the Military or not. I was aware of the Military. My Grandparents had served, my Dad was in the Air Force before he met my mom. My mom even taught at a DOD school in…
The Practical Military Spouse Guide to Spring Cleaning Your Life
Spring is almost here, and with so much going on in our lives, it can feel like we need a practical military spouse guide to spring cleaning in order to focus on the tasks at hand. Whether you’re gearing up for a potential PCS in the coming year or simply aiming to enhance the livability…