With each life transition you keep some of the past as you head off to the new adventure, journey or life goal. Being a military spouse means added to the normal transitions of life we also add starting all over in a new place and a new adventure. My neighbor and I recently were discussing […]
Category Archives: Family
15 Cross Country Road Trip Tips with Kids Under 5
A cross country road trip is pretty much an inevitable thing when it comes to military life. And having a great list of cross country road trip tips is a must. You often don’t live close to family and sometimes even when you fly home it is still a drive to get where you need […]
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 […]
Running from who I am
For a while I have been running from who I used to be. I don’t know if running away is the right word. But I have been feeling like the story I’m sharing doesn’t matter because I’m not who I used to be. Maybe deep down I feel like staying at home doesn’t make me […]
Remembering – What will you remember looking back?
Isn’t it weird what you remember when you look back on past moments from your life? You might think that I would remember all the work I accomplished while I was in Afghanistan and all those projects I had at one time memorized. Now I can’t even remember most of them. I only remember bits […]
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 […]
Losing Something when I left the Military
This is part two in my series of why I left the military. Start here if you missed part 1. In sharing the story of leaving I was reminded how hard it was to make the change. You lose a part of who you are. There were so many things unexpected in the transition. In […]
Preparing for War: A lead up to Afghanistan
This is a two-part series on why I left the military. And even though my deployment was 3 years before I actually left. I couldn’t leave out how preparing for war affected me in making the decision to leave when I wrote the story. When I was tagged with a short notice deployment (meaning less […]
How do Military and Motherhood Intersect
For 2017, I am doing a weekly series on why the military actually prepares you for motherhood. You probably didn’t realize the military and motherhood intersect. I will use military terms and relate them to motherhood. I will also draw on my past experiences as a military member. Some of the words seem rather odd, like […]
