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 [...]

May Challenge: Set Yourself Up for Success!

Routine brings simplicity to life, and structure that supports you for success. Sometimes it has a negative connotation, but when you have routines in place that honor your goals and dreams, amazing things can happen. Today, on this first day of May, I’d like to challenge My Military Life readers to set up a new [...]

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 [...]

Coupons To Troops

I first heard about Coupons to Troops while lazily scrolling through my Facebook news feed as I have so many other times before. Cool, so-and-so got her hair cut. Great, this dude is at work. Blah, blah. Same old, same old. However a picture of a ton of coupons caught my eye that was posted [...]

My first….Submarine Homecoming

This following is the first blog post in our Homecoming series. Contact us if you would like to be a guest blogger and submit your Homecoming story. My first… By Despina I’m a 43 year old Submariner’s wife writing my first blog post and yesterday I experienced my first homecoming.  Although my Sailor and I [...]

Top Ways to Follow Your Entrepreneurial Dreams

Join us for a special show featuring the founder of Your Yeoman and fellow 2011 Inc 500/5000 Military Entrepreneur Delegate, Lori Clinton. We’ll be talking about her motivation to start her own business, how she balances being a Navy wife and entreprenuer, plus her advice to military spouses thinking about pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams. Click [...]

First Lady Announces Portable Job Opportunities for Military Spouses

Today at the White House the First Lady, Michelle Obama held a telephone conference with milbloggers and traditional reporters to make an exciting announcement regarding Military Spouse employment as part of the Joining Forces initiative. Mrs. Obama announced, “11 companies are coming together to pledge more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses — 15,000 jobs.  [...]

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 [...]

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