Are you moving soon? I have you covered with my 10 best moving tips to help you prepare for a move. It doesn’t matter if you are moving across town or across the country it is hard to move. And it is a lot of work. If you are a military family you know that military […]
Category Archives: Moving
How To Turn A House Into A Home
The military requires families to move and it seems like once you are settled it is time to pack up again. How do you make a house into a home? When I went to my deployment in Afghanistan I lived in a building for a few months for training in Indiana. Then a tent for […]
Military Life Means Home is Where You Are
Home is where the heart is. Or for a military family, it is wherever you are currently. When I think about home I think about where my family is. There are so many things that are hard about military life, but I think moving is one of the hardest parts. But in a way my […]
Looking Back to What it is Like to Move to a New Place
We have been in LA for about 2.5 years and when I originally wrote this we had been here for only 2 months. I had yet to meet my friend group and I really was struggling with being in a new place. Moving is an adventure. Moving is tough. Moving is rough. I feel like I […]
Saying Goodbye to Friends Is Hard
Being in the military has required our family to pick up and move 3 times in the last 10 years, which means saying goodbye to friends. Each move we have been lucky. We haven’t had any issues with any packers who steal or break items. In this last move the packers packed things in weird places. […]
How to Care for Military Families
It is Friday so it is time to write for 5 minutes. The FMFriday word is CARE. GO Military families are just like your family except they are probably far away from theirs. They likely don’t have Grandma and Grandpa living nearby. When they stay in town for holidays they probably do not have anywhere to […]
Moving on to the next assignment
Moving on to the next assignment is a requirement when you are in the military. There is no debating on if you should go or where you will end up. There is a dream sheet that you fill out when a move is on the horizon, but it is a dream sheet. It is the […]
31 Days of Military Life

I have decided to be a part of the 31 days of writing, which means writing every day in October. The theme for me was easy being a military veteran and spouse “31 Days of Military Life.” The topic needed to be broad and narrow. I hope I can share my insights into what being […]