Your spouse comes home from work, tosses the car keys on the hook, squeezes the kids.
Then, turns to you and says, “Honey, I have good news and I have bad news. Which do you want first?”
Posts By: Amanda Krieger
When the Tradition is That Everything is Different
I look forward to holidays and celebrations, in large part because I know the holiday-specific meals are coming.
Or, I used to.
Military life has changed those meal traditions a bit. Often, my husband isn’t home, and honestly, he’s the better cook.
Now, six years into this life, I don’t mind. In fact, I’ve come to enjoy the spontaneity of holiday celebrations.
How did I, someone who loves to do certain things annually, come to grips with and come to appreciate that no two Valentine’s Days would be the same?
My pining for the past was redirected to appreciation for the present and eager anticipation for the future.
2021 Can Be a Year of Spring Cleaning, If We Let It.
You might have read that title and said something like, “Whoa. I don’t want to deep clean all year!”
Slow your scroll.
What I mean by “spring cleaning” is less about ridding our homes of physical things and more about letting go of negative thinking.
(However, if you’re like me and getting ready for a PCS, it could be a thing to consider!)
I don’t usually have New Year’s resolutions, and going into 2021, I don’t still have them.
Instead, I’m going into 2021 with an intention: positivity.
December: A Time of Waiting and Tradition
Whew. Welcome, December. I’m not firmly in either the “It’s December already?” camp, nor the “Is it New Year’s yet?” one, but I know many people do have a propensity toward one direction.
Why? (Not a rhetorical question. I also ask this in a general sense. Not just this year.)
I have a theory. Are you ready?
It’s because, by the time November closes its doors and December’s swing open, we are exhausted.
From Veteran to Milspouse: An Oft Overlooked Perspective
What comes to mind when you think of Veterans Day?
Is it a barbecue with friends and family?
Is it remembering to wear red, white, and blue and taking family photos?
For me, Veterans Day brings a few thoughts, each from a different time in my life.
The first, a Charleston County-wide essay contest for middle school students that begged the question, “Is Freedom Really Free?” The winner read her essay in front of hundreds of middle schoolers who just wanted to board the USS Yorktown to see all the “cool stuff,” as we called it.
9 Ways to Support Your New Service Member
You have a few days left with your loved one before they head off to basic training (or boot camp). You’re bummed because the daily phone calls and visits you’ve become accustomed to will be on pause for a while. and then you wonder what your relationship will look like while you are apart, possibly for the first time ever.
You reach for your loved one’s hand and pull them to sit down on the couch next to you. You sigh. I really don’t want to talk about this, but I need to know what to do.
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