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.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the time of the year that your heart is warmed with thanks as you focus on the blessings you’ve been given as the year has passed by. One of the blessings I am counting is that our military journey has afforded us an extended family that spans the globe.
The summer sun is bearing down, and we are definitely feeling the heat! At the Crooks house, summer is full of front yard play, complete with sprinklers and snow cones. This summer, though, as I looked across my front lawn, I saw the most peculiar sight: Through the drops of water and sticky syrup, all of the neighborhood children were playing “Army.” It made me laugh (in the civilian world, no one would have understood their madness), and then I was inspired to find more ways to encourage their creative play.
We’re celebrating our AWNiversary, so why not join us? Here are two easy cakes you can make, one to mail to your deployed service member and one to make just for you.
Recently on AWTR, we talked about creating Standard Operating Procedures for our home, and we shared other tips to get started on your way to a more organized home.
On a recent show, we talked about time management, and how you can get a lot done by grabbing and using small increments of time rather than trying to block out a large chunk. Taking five minutes here or there several times a time starts to add up, and before you know it, you have finished your task!
There’s hurricane season, tornado season, blizzard season, the list goes on. We are blasted with reminders everywhere, especially within our military communities.
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