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Fast fact: Our blog will publish it’s 3000th (yes, you read that right!) blog post in 2023. All of the content is brought to you by empowered experience volunteer bloggers and insightful expert bloggers. You name a topic that a military spouse or organization could write about, we’ve probably got it. Current topics include PCS, deployment, parenting, finances, solidarity, humor, milspouse experiences, expert advice, and more. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can always join us as a blogger to share your story!

What I Will NOT Miss About Germany

What I Will NOT Miss About Germany

by | Mar 30, 2021 | , , ,

My wife Jules, myself, and our three children Hunter (12), Eva (10), and Acadia (8) were scheduled to be stationed in Germany for three years, and the way my wife’s Army career was looking, it was possible we could squeeze in a fourth year. Then the military does what it always does, and our world was turned upside down. Jules was selected for a position at Fort Lee in Virginia and our three or four years living and traveling in Europe was cut short to two.

How do I help the children cope with learning that, at 18 months and in six more months, they will once again have to pick up their lives and move? How do I cope with picking up my life and moving at the two-year mark?

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How I Became an Army Spouse: Alika Schwartz

How I Became an Army Spouse: Alika Schwartz

by | Mar 28, 2021 | , , , ,

I grew up in a military household. I learned early that “Home is where the Army sends you.” Although I didn’t have traditional stability, I am fortunate that many of my dad’s career assignments included repeat stops in Oklahoma, Virginia, and Washington, where I grew accustomed to some familiarity with my surroundings. Nevertheless, shopping at the commissary, the post exchange, and even attending church at the main post chapel seemed normal to me, not Martin’s, K-Mart, or the local Baptist church. The Army Wife lifestyle is something that I always thought about: traveling, Hail and Farewells, deployments, and even the frequent PCS.

However, my journey to become an Army spouse didn’t happen exactly as I imagined!

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Find Support With Make the Connection

Find Support With Make the Connection

by | Mar 26, 2021 | , , ,

If you are a veteran, or family member of a veteran, facing challenges in your everyday life, you are not alone. There are millions of veterans and family members who have reached out for support during tough times. Their lives got better. Yours can too. There’s a resource just for you: MakeTheConnection.net is an online resource designed to connect veterans, their family members and friends, and other supporters with information, resources, and solutions to issues affecting their lives.

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Coffees, Pins, and Camaraderie

Coffees, Pins, and Camaraderie

by | Mar 25, 2021 | , ,

If you ever went to a unit coffee before the virus disrupted our lives, you were continuing an Army tradition that dates back to the days of our very first lady, Martha Washington. She saw the need to support the wives as well as the troops and held many get-togethers for different groups every week. She even had her own “rules for good coffee”—a cup of water and heaping tablespoon of her specially-selected coffee “pulverized as fine as cornmeal.”

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Drive-Throughs for Mommies

Drive-Throughs for Mommies

by | Mar 24, 2021 | , ,

Several years back, we were stationed at an installation with a popular coffeehouse chain that was converted from a former fast-food building. It was constructed for a drive-through, but the coffee shop did not utilize that service. The absence of drive-through service was a huge ongoing conversation with us mommies who all had little ones we were lugging around.

One rumor stated that we women were lazy for not just going inside the store to order, that the drive-through wasn’t necessary. My close friend countered that it had nothing to do with laziness. The fact is, it takes 20 minutes to unload all the littles, walk-in to order while those littles run around and grab things off the shelves, and then try to balance a hot drink while walking out with kids in hand, just to take several more minutes to load them all back up.

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Understanding Stress and What to Do About It

Understanding Stress and What to Do About It

by | Mar 23, 2021 | , ,

I have been trying to write a highly researched blog pertaining to debunking myths around resistance training but have been struggling to stay focused. Maybe it’s stress.

The past month (well, few months, actually) has been very hectic in the Bearden household. We planned and moved from Tacoma, Washington, to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for my new job! While we knew a move to The Springs was inevitable, my new job on Fort Carson made us push our moving plans up about three months. On top of that, my husband had several sets of orders that took him out of the planning and packing process for weeks at a time, leaving me to pack and plan a lot of the move myself.

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