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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!

Mapping Out Your New Year

Mapping Out Your New Year

by | Jan 12, 2020 | , ,

t’s arrived. I turn it over in my hands, appreciating the new leather, running my fingers over the embossed 2020 on the cover. Cracking it open, I am met with initial stiffness and resistance as with the start of any new thing. To limber it up, I shuffle the pages with my thumb from front to back and back again. Now the crisp, sparkling blank pages greet me openly. They are bright white, empty, and brimming with the promise of things to come.

It’s a new year and a new calendar. A tool to plan and direct the flow of time as best we mortals can. Skipping past January, February, and all the other months, I find the few blank pages in the back. It is here I will make my mark.

How many of us get into our car and begin driving to a new destination without first putting it in the GPS?

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The Journey to Discovering Your Why

by | Jan 11, 2020 | , , ,

This time of the year is notorious for finding something in your life that you want to remove, increase, or alter from the previous year into the new year. 

I have gone through many New Year’s resolutions in my lifetime. Becoming debt-free is always near the top of my list—each year I am able to decrease it, but never fully cross the finish line. Other times I am able to truly commit to changing my behaviors for a better wiser self.

Why do some of the commitments that we make never survive into February, while others become a lifestyle change? Finding the why inside, that core motivation to make the desired change.

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RTWR: Random Thoughts While Running

RTWR: Random Thoughts While Running

by | Jan 10, 2020 | , ,

General Dennis J. Reimer participated in the 35th Army Ten-Miler on Oct. 13, 2019 for his 16th time. The net running time was 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 7 seconds. General Reimer takes the time to look back over his shoulder to the time when he was the Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 1, 1995 to June 21, 1999.

It is evident that the competitive nature remains.

On Oct. 11, 1998 at the 14th Army Ten-Miler, he was the 1,207 out of 7,933 males in a time of 1:10:45.

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When Military Life Feels Scary

by | Jan 9, 2020 | , , , ,

Few Americans have missed the news from the Middle East in recent weeks.

It’s difficult to scroll through social media without seeing calls for war, specific response, restraint.

But in the military community, it isn’t the politics that matter as much to as what will happen with our service member spouses.

As we watch the news our stomachs drop through the floor.

Our chests tighten to the point we can only inhale shallow breaths.

Our hands shake a little.

Our hearts beat a tiny bit faster.

Images of yellow ribbons, hugs and kisses goodbye, waving flags, and overstuffed olive drab bags littering the entrance to our home, and uniforms in a combination of browns and greens packed tightly run through our minds.

It’s hard to stop that flow through the channels of our brain, the rolling images of what we’ve done before.

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The ‘Doggone’ Truth About Community

The ‘Doggone’ Truth About Community

by | Jan 8, 2020 | , , ,

After saying goodbye to my husband four months ago, one of the soldiers of rear detachment stopped me in the parking lot and told me that if there was anything I needed help with during the deployment to please call him. This is not uncommon in the military world, and his words were comforting on such a raw, emotional day.

I told him there were two things I didn’t want to have to do during this deployment: buy a car and put my dog down.

Sadly, I had to do both this month and no other words will suffice…

It just sucked.

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Doing The Best You Can Do

Doing The Best You Can Do

by | Jan 7, 2020 | , , ,

We’ve all heard the saying “just do the best you can do.”

Possibly this was muttered by your senile, passive-aggressive Great Aunt this holiday season while standing around the cheeseball; hopefully, it was said with sincerity from a loved one.

Military wives know this phrase possibly better than anyone else. And if you don’t, then I hope this post will empower you to see the truth in this phrase.

I, like many other victims, am a recovered people pleaser. At one point in my life, I was so concerned with letting people down or saying “no” that I would break down in tears if I had to break a commitment. It wasn’t until I had two kiddos a mere 19 months apart that I realized I needed a change.

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