School?!

  Even though I’m new to this whole military wife thing, my husband and I have been married for 11+ years. In all that time we’ve both bounced around career ideas about a million times. My husband looked at schools for degrees in graphic design, finance, computer science, and teaching. He even was trying to [...]

April Month of the Military Child – Military Children: A Nomadic Subculture?

April is the Month of the Military Child. We as spouses are often referred to as the Silent Ranks. I would assume this to include our children. Do we ever step back and take a look at them for what they really are? Do you ever have that moment when you realize that your five [...]

6 months

I have heard and read that it takes about 6 months after each move before you feel at home in your new town.  Well March is my 6th month and I finally feel like we might make it!  We spent 8 months down in Florida while my husband finished school and we never got fully plugged [...]

Being new to military life can be like learning a new language.

If you are new to this military life and your head is spinning trying to get a grasp on things, hang in there.

Growing up military

There is this unspoken  (ok, sometimes loudly spoken) concern for kids of military parents. Will they adjust with the next PCS? How will they make friends? Should we stay here while our service member moves on to the next duty station? Etc. I’m not going to answer any of those questions for you. Even if [...]

We survived!

I posted about our plans to stay home during the holidays and start new traditions. We did just that and we really enjoyed our Christmas together! Needless to say there were many moments where we all missed the big family gathering that was taking place back home, but cousins with new cell phones helped my [...]

Cookies!

This week we have been making different treats each day. Monday we made a cookie I like to eat each year, but it’s not so fun for the kids to make. The cookies are just balls and half way through I was left alone balling dough. For yesterday’s cookie I had an idea. Why follow the directions [...]

The Invisible Military Spouse – how the new retirement proposal misses a huge piece of the financial planning puzzle

Guest Post by Navy Wife Jill Even as Secretary of Defense Panetta starts to back pedal about the proposed radical changes in military retirement, there is a lot of fear of the unknown.  Just today I overheard a conversation between a military spouse and an active duty nurse while trying on some jeans at the mall.  It seems that nobody [...]

The move, or so we think

As I write this, today is October 1st and we are getting the house prepared for the movers to arrive in just 4 days.  At this moment we still don’t know 100%  if my husband will be checking out of his current base on the day we’ve all planned.  Hard copy orders have been in our [...]

Waiting…. and more waiting.

My family is new to this whole military life thing, like so new I don’t understand quite a bit of what my husband says to me when it has to do with his time away from home.  (He’s an IT guy, so I never knew what he was talking about, but now it’s not just the job, [...]

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