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When Will I Hear from My Soldier at Army Basic Training?
Very few people are familiar with the level of patience required to wait for a letter from boot camp. Hollywood Walk of Fame status patience. Phone calls are possibly even harder to wait for. And yet year after year, thousands of American families, spouses, parents, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. find themselves checking the mail constantly and…
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10 Cheap and Quick Ways to Make Military Housing Home
I have had the distinct joy/pleasure/utter confusion of turning a blank, empty, sterile, foreign house into my very own home. 12 times. Not including college dorm rooms. Which would tack on an extra 5 living spaces. It can get expensive. But it doesn’t have to. It can be time consuming too. But it doesn’t…
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One Detail Every Military Family Should Know About Their Own Family
Have you ever taken a personality test and had the results *emailed* to you? Meyers-Briggs, Kiersey Personalities, Enneagram, Spirit Animal…everyone’s taken a million tests (at least I have) to try best define their personality. Personally, I love reading the results. And for a long time, that was the extent of my research. I basically researched myself…
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Duty Station Spotlight: Fort Bragg, NC
Today I’m sharing the best of Fort Bragg. I lived there for nine years (longer than anywhere else ever). Granted, seven years were spent as a child and two were spent as an adult. But during my adulting there, I definitely found it to be “home.” I know everyone has a different experience when they…
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10 Coping Mechanisms That Actually Work For Kids During Deployment
If this is your first time visiting my blog, welcome! I wear many hats around here but my most commonly worn hat is the military wife one. I’m taking that hat off right now. Today, I’m writing this as an Army brat. I’m dipping into my memory bank and heart here. So if any of these ideas or coping mechanisms…