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Newborn and Well-Baby Care
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Read Your Way Through Quarantine
Like many people around the world, you may have found yourself in a quarantine in your own home until the worst is over.
And, like many people around the world, you may be realizing just how boring and monotonous it can get being stuck in your home with your spouse (who may or may not work from home) and/or your children.
Seriously, #solidarity.
For me, reading has been the best way to pass the time, both reading to my kids and reading books for myself. The problem for many is finding these books. So here are a few ways you can access digital books that are new to you or re-read old favorites without leaving your house.
Supporting Our Troops: How to Respond When Someone Doesn’t
Before I met my husband, James, I had no connection to military life beyond my grandfathers who both served in WWII. In my world, the military was a foreign, invasive force that attracted only those who sought out and enjoyed violence.
It wasn’t just the US military. I felt this way about all those who I believed chose war—otherwise, why choose to be in the service?
In those initial months dating James, I had so many questions. I could not put together the idea of this tremendously kind, gentle, compassionate man who I was getting to know to be the same person who I would have assumed to choose violence and anger before anything else. Needless to say, this was the early part of my journey of transformation in my beliefs about military service—where I can now stand by my husband with pride as he serves our country, and I feel honored to be a military spouse.
Spring Cleaning
Gonna be honest, I’m hoping that by using the word “spring” in my blog title the universe will decide that we can be done with winter. But, since it’s currently supposed to snow a few more times in the next week, I’m not holding out any hope.
Onto the topic at hand!
Maybe you’re wondering if by “Spring Cleaning” I mean things like vacuuming and dusting, or dishes and yardwork, easy stuff like that.. No way I’m letting you guys off that easy! While scrubbing floors and toilets like Cinderella sounds amazing (no, it doesn’t), I actually mean the type of deep life cleaning that can be painful, but incredibly necessary. Sometimes you’ve just got to purge all the extra crap in order to make room for the stuff that actually matters!
The Pros and Cons of Buying a Home in the Military
The same questions surface every couple of years when it comes time to PCS. One of the biggest ones is whether or not we should buy or rent a house at our next duty station, but that question can also be one of the hardest to tackle.
The answer can differ based on the location. But how do you make that decision? How can you definitively say that one choice is better than the other? With a pros and cons list, of course!
So let’s talk about what makes home buying a great option for military families and what might point you to renting.
Hold on to Yourself: Support for Caregivers
There are many healing and helping hands that touch the transition of a military member back to civilian life, especially if there are injuries involved.
The most overlooked and under-appreciated of that group? The family caregiver, be it a spouse, parent, or another member of the family. They perform a near-constant labor of love. They are the front line of all the spilling emotions, mood swings, and sleepless nights.
Many try to balance a full-time job with the role of primary caregiver. Often, they have children too, which adds another vital role of keeping the family safe, secure, and running smoothly.
News 6 Mashup: March 16, 2020
Here are the top stories for the week of March 16, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:
• Real ‘Rosie the Riveter’ dies at age 95
* Soldiers Sworn in from International Space Station
* Panera Bread, AAFES Partner
* Green Plastic Army Women Coming Fall 2020
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