Army Life
Embracing that Army family lifestyle!
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Supporting Your Soldier (And You) During *These* Times
This is not the post I planned to publish today, but we keep it real over here so this is going live instead. I wrote a rough draft of this post during the time that troops were pulling out of Afghanistan and its effects made waves among military families and our community’s emotional compass. Now it’s March 2022…
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Why Minimalism is Hard for Military Families (& Getting Past It)
We are resilient! We are capable. But no matter how many times we move houses– getting rid of household belongings can be tough for military families! To the non-military world, it might seem, by nature, all Army Families are minimalist. And by “principle” — they aren’t wrong. Our “worth” is not in our things as much…
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Why Worrying is Overrated in Military Life
I’m a worrier. Not a warrior. A worrier. I didn’t use to be. In my days of innocent youth, the only thing that caused me stress was an enormous workload of college homework, or interpersonal conflict with people I couldn’t avoid. The latter still stresses me out. (old habits die hard?) But really– it didn’t…
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Duty Station Spotlight: Fort Benning, GA
Fort Benning. Picture enormous trees, perpetually green, draped with Spanish moss. But don’t picture that all over Fort Benning, the Spanish moss is only at the entrance of the Lumpkin access point. A few months ago, I wrote a post about my impression of Ft Bragg, NC, and the hotspots you can’t miss when you’re there.…
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10 Ways to Familiarize Your Baby with Their Deployed Parent
I’m just going to get it out of the way by saying there is no easy way to help your baby get to know their separated parent. Because bottom line: having a parent gone is not easy. But, easy and possible are two totally different things! I think the strength of military families is…
