With towers of moving boxes all around me, I sat alone in our new house. It was quiet. My husband just left for work. We had just PCS’d to a new duty station and I was four months pregnant at the time. Of course, we had to go from one of the most expensive duty […] Read more…
Being a military family can have its downfalls, but there is also a lot of upsides… if you happen to know about them. A discount is nice but there’s a lot more that active duty life can offer a military family. I’ve written about perks for military spouses before. Here’s a list of some military […] Read more…
Weddings vows are not meant to be taken lightly. On our wedding day, I stood there in my wedding dress, nervous but excited, across from my husband, I took a deep breath as I prepared to say our wedding vows, our commitment, our promises to one another. Our vows were beautiful, traditional, and meaningful. And […] Read more…
Military families move quite often and if they have been a part of military life for a while, it means they have lived in a lot of different houses. When we PCS’d to different duty station, it was almost a guarantee that we would live in at least two different houses during that time frame. […] Read more…
If you’ve lived with an active duty service member long enough, then you know that they accumulate a lot of… stuff. By a lot, I mean it could practically take up its own bin, or closet, or even its own room. If your service member is in it for the long haul (i.e. 20+ years), […] Read more…