Our children are strong and courageous, but I dare to say it’s because of the opportunities our service has given them. Being a military mom has its challenges and has amazing benefits for our children we rarely talk about. April has been known as the month of the Military Child since the mid-1980s. It is […]
Category Archives: Parenting
Soldier’s Daughter: Experience While Her Mom is at War
April is the month of the military child. Cathy-Ann Alexander wrote a children’s book from her daughter’s experience of being a soldier’s daughter called Mya the Soldier’s Daughter. In 2017, Cathy deployed to Afghanistan and had her daughter stay with her sister in Canada. It was a hard year for both her daughter and her. […]
Why you should celebrate your kids leaving home
This post was sponsored by Basic invites One of the hardest parts about being a mom in the military is missing out on time with our kids. Deployments, TDY’s, and long hours demand so much of our time that 18 years with our children doesn’t feel like enough. One day we are struggling to juggle […]
A Career in Science and Technology in the Military
Rojan joined the Air Force through a Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. A guidance counselor had recognized her love of math and science and recommended she attended a math and science camp at the Air Force Academy. From that she learned about ROTC and received a four-year scholarship, but had to get her degree in […]
A Fourth Trimester of Deployment?
Ten years after coming home from deployment and six years of being a mom has taught me to relook and refocus to see what motherhood can teach me about military life. I now look at a deployment similar to how I look at pregnancy. And while the similarities are uncanny there are also distinct differences. […]
Military Child to Military Mom
Listen to what this military mom learned from her time in ROTC. She is a mom of four children who each joined a different military branch. She shares her story on the Women of the military podcast and in her book, Be safe, Love Mom. Listen here. Post contains affiliate links When you join the […]
Motherhood Wasn’t What I Expected
My journey from military to motherhood didn’t go quite like I expected. Go and have children they said… You can stay at home with the kids and life will be easy… So…I took the bait, but they were wrong. So very wrong. Before I left the military behind to become a stay at home mom […]
Things Military Spouses Should Know
“This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of 1 Natural Way, a TRICARE breast pump provider. All opinions are entirely my own.” I’m sharing things military spouses should know from my experience of being both a military spouse and veteran. And to start off let’s give you a little background about my […]
Waiting on the Military to Change Your Future
The military has this window of time while you are waiting on the military, waiting for an assignment. At some points in your career there are things you can do to help direct where you go. At other points, you are sitting and waiting on the military to make its move. You fill out the […]
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 […]