It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
…Unless your husband is deployed.
When you’re facing the holidays alone, all the festivities feel, at best, somewhat hollow…
I can’t believe it’s already that time of year again—time to start getting serious about Christmas shopping! Last year, I put together some holiday gift guides for kids ages 0-8, but this year I want to focus on shopping for the adults in your life. In this post I’ll give you some general gift-giving…
Now I can finally say that we’ve worked out a system for organizing the kids’ clothes and shoes that is infinitely more sustainable and easier to use. You’d think I’d have figured all this out years ago, but it’s taken be almost seven years of parenting and 3.5 kids to get the point where I…
And in just a few months, we’ll be doing another prolonged separation (this time without the benefit of having family nearby), so I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about what things were the most helpful to us while we were separated from Dad, and how friends and family (both near and far) can help support their…
In just two weeks, my oldest child will turn five years old. Which means I’ve spent the last seven months being mom to three kids under age five. It’s been a juggling act, for sure. The reality is that young children are needy. Their ability to do things for themselves is limited. I spend a lot of time…
If there’s one thing everyone knows about the life of a military spouse, it’s that we deal with an abnormal amount of uncertainty day to day. Sure, lots of professions deal with fluctuating work schedules and being called into work last minute (in fact, lots of careers experience way more of this kind of chaos than even the…
