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Finding the Balance: Working From Home with Kids

Finding the Balance: Working From Home with Kids

The pandemic forced a lot of capable people to move from working in an office to working from home. Although I’m grateful to still be getting a paycheck during this time, it has not been an easy transition. However, regardless of the pandemic, I was lucky enough to score a permanent work from home job!

I didn’t account for working from home with kids, but just like I was forced to transition, so were my kids. I went from a working mom and wife, to a working mom and wife plus homeschool teacher (thanks, COVD!).

It wasn’t easy at first.

My patience was tested daily.

But, once we figured out a routine, it was easy peasy moving forward.

For Better or Worse: The Importance of Being Your Spouse’s #1 Fan

For Better or Worse: The Importance of Being Your Spouse’s #1 Fan

Marriage is hard work. Then throw in the fact that your spouse serves in the military. The hard work factor just jumped up a few levels.

Can I get an amen?

My husband and I are going on almost 16 years of marriage, with all of them being within the context of the Army. We certainly don’t have it all figured out, nor do we have a perfect marriage, but over the years we have discovered some core values that we implement in our marriage that help us weather the stress of all that life throws at us. You can read about the top five things that I do to best support my husband and keep our marriage strong in this blog post.

In this post, I am going to delve a little deeper into the importance of being your spouse’s #1 fan.

Year of the Bundt

Year of the Bundt

As military spouses, I know many of us are accustomed to moving all. the. time.

You get to a new place, you start to unpack your stuff, and then you open up a box that you haven’t looked at since the beginning of the last move and find a hidden gem in there…

Maybe it’s the butter dish that went missing four years ago, tightly wrapped in packing paper and tucked inside your old microwave (that happened).

Maybe it’s the top screw to your gorgeous bamboo paper towel holder, stuffed inside a trinkets box from when you lived overseas (yep, that also happened).

Maybe it’s your husband’s entire set of West Point beer steins and their glass pitcher, expertly wrapped but boxed in with old college textbooks (you betcha that happened).

Or maybe it’s an old Bundt cake cookbook, one that you’ve never even opened, but your kids find it and start to flip through it, exclaiming over every single recipe.. Well, when that happens, there’s only one thing to be done—you make a pledge then and there to pick out a Bundt and make one per month for an entire year.

A Global Perspective: Italy

A Global Perspective: Italy

Let’s begin in the tiny town of Vo, Italy, where the government shut everything down as soon as they had their first confirmed case of COVID-19. My friend, Laura, who was born and raised in Italy and frequents her hometown quite a bit to be with her family, is my direct resource for this particular segment.

A Shoutout to the US Army

A Shoutout to the US Army

Thanks for the housing allowance, free health insurance, and our custody agreement that allows me to see your property (Whom I call my husband. It’s silly, I know.) on some weekends and holidays.

Thanks for keeping my mind sharp by changing schedules and plans last minute, so I can never plan anything. It keeps me young.

Thanks for the twitch in my eye that I developed from hurrying up and waiting.

One Step At A Time

One Step At A Time

My husband’s next assignment is taking us to Hawaii. The kids are super excited about it, especially my daughter. She cannot wait to swim with turtles, dolphins, and sharks—especially sharks.

People always tell me they are jealous and excited for us that we can move to Hawaii and live in paradise. I am careful about getting excited.

Being a military spouse for almost 18 years, I’ve learned that plans could change overnight, and they did for our family.

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