Depending on when you PCS, birthday parties can be hard for military kids. There’s nothing like showing up in a new town, not knowing...
We've all been there. It's PCS time, and we miss the things we left behind. We miss the familiarity of knowing where all our...
It was a big, well, let’s just say "discussion" in our house. An ongoing discussion that lasted for months. My oldest son, who has...
When the nesting urge struck me recently, it struck like lightning. Everything that lingered on my to-do list for the last eight months suddenly...
Despite being a busy wife, caregiver, volunteer, and homeschooling mama of five, I seem to find myself playing silly social media games quite frequently....
At 12:00:01 AM, on January 20, 2018, the U.S. government officially shut down. Unfortunately for the American people, this has become what my grandmother...
On Saturday, our government shut down. For those of us in the Armed Forces or with family members in the Armed Forces, this means...
A dear friend of mine wrote a blog On Becoming A Mom Who Plays. I can't even begin to tell you how much that struggle resonates....
I left them with no question of my love. I know this, because I had catalogued each hug, each kiss, each whispered “I love...
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Like every government shutdown in the past, the biggest question for military families is, "How does this impact me?"...
I walked into her room to find her sitting up happily. With poop in each hand, she smiled a big toothy grin at me....
When I found out a year ago that I was pregnant, I vowed not to be one of those women who completely changes when...
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I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
