One thing I’ve come to love about life in a military setting is that you get to meet people from just about everywhere. I grew up in northern Indiana, and for those of you who haven’t been there, no, it’s not all corn fields. I’m from South Bend, which was named for being on the south bend of the St. Joseph River. It’s most noted for being the home of Notre Dame and is where Studebaker cars were once manufactured.
I pride myself on being a woman of my word. If I say I am going to do something, I’ll do it.
(Unless it’s something I am telling myself I should do, and in that case, my word means nothing. Refer to: Diet, Start My.)
On this week’s empowering episode of Army Wife Talk Radio, we’re chatting with Sarah Smiley, author of the book, Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime. Don’t miss our Resource of the Week, Moving Journal for Kids.
I’m a daddy’s girl. I have been for as long as I remember. He’s always pushed me to do the best and is one of my biggest supporters. With Father’s Day just a couple of days away, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about my first hero and the first ever military man in my life—my dad.
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My, the difference a day (or four years) makes.
Four years ago, I found out I was pregnant. I cried for days when I found out, and they weren’t tears of joy. When the home pregnancy test said I was pregnant, my world ended. Or so I thought.
In October, 2010, my family went through a change—a big one! My mother and father moved in with us.
My parents lived in a small town in the North Carolina mountains where my father ran his own business. He also took care of my mom, who is disabled due to degenerative bone disease. After struggling for two years to keep his small business above water, the bottom finally fell out from under him, and my parents lost their business and their home.
The kids are out of school, and the sun is blazing. Yep, it is summer vacation!
Like a majority of others, summer is the time for family trips, and I have been busy trying to figure out all the typical stuff, where to go, how much to spend, how are we going to get there, you know how the story goes.
For many of us, we need a vacation from planning the vacation. For those folks, I wanted to share some tips on how to plan your summer vacation stress free!
When families work together as a team, they balance one person’s difficult time with the other family members’ strengths. Each individual in a family brings skills and personality that contribute to a family team. As a whole, a family shares a history and goals. Our family members help us through the happy, good, sad, and painful times. And in military life, where we’re frequently uprooting, having a strong family team not only makes the transitions easier, but helps the entire family prepare for each move.
How do we create a family team?
Here are 10 steps that I learned from Kathy Peel and her Family Manager Program.
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