MilSpouse Blog Hoppity Hop!!

Hello Military Spouse Hoppers!! Here at MyMilitaryLife.com we are a grouping of many spouses and many branches.  We work together to unify and create a strong military bond no matter what the branch of service or what your service members rank maybe.   If you are boots on ground, submarine, or surface, we are all in [...]

The Month of the Military Child 2012

As April comes to close, I was thinking about the strength of  the Military Child.  I have 3 kids that I affectionately call the brats.  In society that title has such a negative connotation…in my home my kids love it.  They are amazing, but really what parent doesn’t say that about their children?  In many [...]

The Lucky One review, I was the lucky one…

I have to admit as I begin this review that I have a love hate relationship with the books of Nicholas Sparks.  I love them but then throw them at the end when the ending is different than what I thought. As the theater lights lowered I could already feel my heart pumping anxiously to [...]

DITY been there, survived that!

In the military we move more times that we can count, we unpack boxes and watch as total strangers pack our personal effects into cardboard wrapped in paper.  We watch as canned beans are combined with blankets from the living room and strange items get packed with our electronics.  A military move is rough, when [...]

The Woman I Once Was…

This time of year is one that is filled with an array of chaos and emotion.  Back to school of course is exciting and as a mom of now 2nd grader and preschooler my home is filled with the smell of new crayons and sharpened pencils.  Behind the child centered joy there is a lingering [...]

Mommyhood and the Military kid

Recently I have spent many a day battling my very strong-willed daughter who is sadly so much like me that I know it’s all my fault. I have come to accept it, I have to accept it daily when she awakens with that look in her eye that I know I too get. One thing [...]

Halloween/Fall Fun Rules for Grown-Ups

If you are like many moms you are either finalizing this weekends fun or maybe even searching for last minute costume ideas. No matter the case FlyLady.net offers some Fall Fun/Halloween rules for us grown ups this weekend. Stay safe everyone! —- Halloween/Fall Fun Rules for Grown-Ups from flylady.net Dear Friends, For those of you [...]

Milbloggies & my DC drive

TrevsNavyWife OFF to MilBloggies!! Yesterday I attended the 5th Military Bloggers Confrence in Washington DC! It was an awesome experiance, but I will get back to that in bit…First about my drive from Annapolis into DC. I love Washington DC. It’s beautiful, it’s history, it’s one of my favorite places in the world…but DRIVING in [...]