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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!

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.

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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.

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Moving Into a New Rental? Tackle These Important Tasks First

Moving Into a New Rental? Tackle These Important Tasks First

After the final box is unloaded and the last mover has shut the door, it’s time to take a quick breather and set your action plan into motion. The first things to do after moving into your rental home are a little bit different for everyone, but many of us focus on the most important tasks so we can begin calling our new rental house our home. 

The trick is to uncover what your family prioritizes the most. Is it cleanliness, and removing every trace of the previous tenants? Or, do you prefer to focus on a few zones of sanctuary to nest in, happy to have somewhere to retreat to when you need a break? 

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News 6 Mashup: June 15, 2020

News 6 Mashup: June 15, 2020

Here are the top stories for the week of June 1, 2020, straight from AWN News 6 Correspondent, Jolene McNutt:

• MWR Programs Face Financial Concerns from COVID-19 Pandemic

* Travel Ban Lifted in 39 States

* New Funds Options Coming to Thrift Savings Plan

* This Week in History

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Tips to Prepare You for an OCONUS PCS

Tips to Prepare You for an OCONUS PCS

Decisions, decisions!

Parents make decisions every day that impact their family. Some decisions are more complex than others, and for military families, some decisions are unique and different from what a civilian neighbor may face. For example, military families moving overseas face a tremendous amount of stress and anxiety leading up to and during an OCONUS move. And sometimes the return trip stateside can be equally tough.

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