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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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How to Say Goodbye to Your Soldier the “Right” Way
This post is for my fellow over-thinkers! If you have already said “goodbye” before, or don’t like the nuances of goodbyes, this post is not for you! Just scroll past and read my Open Letter. I may or may not need to get the obvious out of the way: at some point in every single military career,…
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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…
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5 Christmas Traditions for Military Families Facing Separation
If you are a military spouse then you have probably spent your fair share of holidays apart from your spouse. Our first Thanksgiving married was celebrated via Skype, and to this day, we still have yet to spend a single Halloween together! (edited in 2018: our “first” Halloween was our fourth one together!) The separation can be…