One of the most important parts of supporting your service member as they serve our country is “holding down the fort” (See also: running a smooth, loving, and supportive home life for you and your family, while keeping all things going in your service member’s absence). Easy peasy, right? Sometimes, not so much.
With this category, we cover everything behind the scenes, such as organization, communication, marriage, parenting, overcoming trials, and just some good ole fashioned humor.
Join us as we embark on figuring out the home-life balance as a milspouse and find ways to thrive and excel! No matter what your life at home looks like, one of our Experience Bloggers or Command Team members has probably been in a similar situation and is here to share their triumphs, lessons, and laughs along the way.
Stepparenting in a military family often feels like Groundhog Day. Minus the witty remarks of Bill Murray, conversations are often repeated, mistakes are made, and sometimes the outcome can become a predictable routine. As Bill’s character, Phil states, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”
Let’s revisit the holidays.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, not just because the holidays make us feel all warm, fuzzy, and snuggly and give us the perfect excuse to eat #AllTheThings, but because I have a new reason to create yet another “batch” of humorous holiday hacks.
These hacks are tips and tricks that, while entertaining, may or may not make your holiday season easier. (But hey, if it puts a smile on your face, that’s something, right?)
Okay, you caught me. There is, of course, no right way to be thankful. There is, however, a way to jump-start the thankful feelings when you aren’t really feeling the joy of the season. Not everyone is into the holidays (for varied reasons), and that’s okay.
It seems like we have a conversation like this about once every quarter in my house.
“Branch just sent a memo about possible next moves.”
“You know there is always a possibility we could end up staying here.”
“Should I throw my name in for that job?”
But last week when we were looking for something (I really wish I had read this article earlier) and my husband said, “Go ahead and keep that…we’re about eight months out and we might need it for the move,” the realization hit me. My brain automatically became a scene from the movie Inside Out. I could actually envision little versions of myself running around in my head.
Day one of your spouse being away from home, no matter the amount of time they will be away, no matter the distance they will travel, is just sucky. After five years, several deployments, and many trainings that require saying, "See ya later!" to my partner, I've...
I’ve recently lived (barely) through some intense, life-altering, earth-shattering events. Specifics are best kept for another time, when I’ve had proper sleep, time to comprehend, digest, and process all the things, and there are so many things.
From start ’til now, it’s been a grueling, frustrating, heart-wrenching (and many more “..ings”) 10 months. And while I can see the end will eventually come, no one involved can name a date. So here I am, month 10 of this “event” in my life, and I feel as if I’ve found a specific theme park called “Emotional Rollercoaster City.”
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