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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…
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10 Improvements that Drastically Changed My Stay at Home Life
Being a stay at home mom isn’t easy. Edit: And thanks to the pandemic, this is now an undisputed claim! If you are a stay at home mom than you KNOW what I’m talking about. I can say that every single one of these “improvements” I’m sharing today were learned by trial-and-error. Meaning they…
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Remembering 9-11 in Your Everyday Life
With the exception of people born after 2004, everyone in some capacity remembers September 11, 2001. Maybe you were in front of your TV when the news broke. Or maybe you were no where near it and got a frantic phone call to turn it on. Doesn’t make a big difference either way: we all found out…
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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…
