Moving is hard and maybe when you think about moving you think of all the work it is to move all your stuff from point A to point B. And I do think about that, but what is the hardest issues with moving? It has to do with the emotions that go along with moving. You […]
Category Archives: Moving
A Weekly Christian Family Devotion for Young Children
This post contains affiliate links, please see my full disclosure page here. Is your family looking for a weekly christian family devotion? I have been looking for a weekly christian family devotion to do with my kids in the past few weeks. I always felt like they were not old enough. But my friend recently […]
10 Moving Secrets to Help You Prepare for a Move
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 […]
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 the moving is one of the hardest parts. But in a way […]
Looking Back to What it is Like to Move to a New Place
We have been in LA about 2.5 years and when I orginally 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 […]
Making Connections with Friends is Not Always Easy
It has been a long time since I have participated in Five Minute Friday with Kate Motaung, but I don’t know this week seemed like a good time to start. I’m trying to get back into writing more and sharing my story. So when I searched to see what the word was and saw it […]
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. This last move the packers packed things in weird places. This […]
Remain suspicious of God’s goodness
by Lisa Maulhardt I am a born-and-raised Southern California girl. In fact, I have only lived in 3 houses in my lifetime – all in the same zip code. I married a man whose family roots in California go back to the 1890s. Needless to say, we were content and planned to raise our two […]
How to Care for Military Families
It is Friday so it is time to write for 5 minutes. The FMFriday work 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 […]
