Military spouses hate the word "goodbye." It commands many negative thoughts, memories, and emotions that we tend to mask it with other terms and...
I have some amazing friends, and they live all over the place. I want to be a better friend to them, no matter where...
I think it's great how "sensory processing" has made its way into everyday conversations, classroom activities, and mainstream life. A decade or two ago,...
I recently wrote about losing a dear friend to cancer. Knowing that she was dying, my friend went through her scrapbooks and photo albums,...
Across the U.S., school districts are desperate to hire additional substitute teachers.
Some districts and states have gone so far as to lower or...
In the Broadway musical “Rent,” the cast sings a song about measuring time in "Seasons of Love." As military families we are familiar with...
The photos were amazing. One friend, fresh off a PCS move to Germany, shared how she’s so quickly decorated and made their place a...
While military life definitely has its sacrifices and hardships, there are many things I am going to miss about being a military spouse.
My...
“A feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves, suddenly became a feeling in which all shared alike and,...
There will be times when you are struggling to connect and find support in your community.
It kind of comes with the territory, right? You...
One of the best things about staying in a TLF (temporary living facility) when you're PCSing is that it "technically" has everything you need....
Military spouses routinely hold volunteer roles in both the military community as well as their civilian community. In a 2018 Blue Star Families Military...
Military Lifestyle
I’m a Mother-in-Law… Now What?
I’m a Mother-in-Law… Now What? I asked myself this very question the day my son casually mentioned that his girlfriend might be “the one.”
Truthfully?...
