Marriage Advice: Choose to Love Your Spouse Everyday
Marriage is tough and it is certainly not for the faint of heart. 10 years ago, when we were young and in love, planning...
Family Travel Must Haves for Tropical Trips
Are you getting ready for a family adventure on a tropical island somewhere and you aren't sure what travel must haves you will need?...
3 Essential Tips on How to Make Reading Fun for Kids
If you are a parent, then you have probably heard your kids saying 'I hate reading' almost every day. But, if you have tried...
Meals that Motivate You to Cook When Your Spouse is Gone
When your family is together, you and your spouse have perfected the dinnertime dance: One of you cooks or grills, the other takes dish...
When Command Spouse was the Last Thing You Wanted
It's a joke that's as old as time, "If the wanted you to have a spouse, they'd have issued you one." The implication...
Having a Baby While the Uniformed Parent is Away
Military spouses conquer a lot of things, some they couldn't even have imaged before marrying into the military. For Hawaiian native, Kathy Miller, 2017...
End of The Cursive Writing Era
Do you recall learning to carefully link your letters together, forming those odd-looking letters that somewhat resembled the print you were so used to?...
9 Hacks for Valentine’s Day at School
Remember Valentine's Day back in elementary school? You found the box of valentines in the seasonal aisle of Walmart with your favorite character on...
Dealing With Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction After Multiple Pregnancies
Pregnancy can be such a joy. The anticipation of a new life, a new being, and new aches and pains you never thought existed....
Worldschooling with the WildBradburys: Combat Loneliness on the Road
When I set out on this adventure, I was mostly concerned about the children's ability to make friends and feel included in this process....
4 Reasons to Let Your Kids Choose Their Own Hairstyle
Part of being a kid is having someone else make most of your decisions for you. It’s tough. It is certainly frustrating, especially as...
Worldschooling with the Wild Bradburys: 4 Ways to Get the Most...
With a master's in Museum Science, museum-going has been a love of mine for a long time. Even the museums with the dullest of content...
Why the Medical Community is Failing Us with Their “Standard of...
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter what you do for a living, each and every person is...
Top 7 Kid-Friendly Restaurants in the USA
Dining out with kids can be... an experience. We've had some doozies over the years, with slow service + starving children, tantrums, massive spills,...
Aeroflow Breastpumps Makes Over Joint Base Charleston’s Lactation Room
If you’re a military mama nursing your babe, odds are you’ve wondered how you’ll navigate feeding your little one in uniform. Thanks to some...
How to Balance Being a Full-Time Mom And Full-Time Student
Going to college is hard enough. How about going to college with a baby in tow while being a full-time student? Raising a child...
Moms With Depression Can Lean On Their Partners
When you’re coping with depression as a mother, whether it’s situational depression (meaning a friend or loved one has died, or maybe you’re getting...
Everything You Need To Know About Being A Live Egg Donor
Many couples that are looking to expand their
families are choosing to go with a live egg donation instead using a frozen
ovum. In many cases,...
Managing Your Anxiety as a Mom
Managing anxiety as a mom is challenging. From the time that your children are babies to the time they turn 18, you’re continually worried...
8 Ways to Recover from Your Phone Addiction
Many of us are well aware we have a phone-addiction crisis on our hands. We know the importance of showing up, and we want...
Research Says You Should Stay At Home with Teens, Not Only...
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What You Missed if You Didn’t Watch Major Dad Last Weekend
Back in the early '90s, there was a little show giving military families something to relate to and giving civilians a peek inside military...
A Room Mom Introduction Letter Sets You Up for Success With...
Room Mom, classroom coordinator, head mom in charge, the one with all the answers. Maybe you had a grueling battle and came out as...
7 Ways To Handle Breastfeeding Challenges
Congratulations! Your bundle of joy is finally here and now it’s onto breastfeeding and bonding. There’s no doubt that breastfeeding is best when possible,...
Parental Controls: Do They Really Work?
Nowadays, many children have easy access to electronics such as computers, tablets and smart phones. This makes it easy for them to browse...
How My Baby Helped Me Make Friends
You know the phrase when it rains, it pours? Well, it might not rain in California, but for my husband and I, the move...
Coping with a Parent’s Illness
There is nothing more real about adulting than when your parent gets sick. As teens and twenty-somethings we not only believe ourselves to be...
Government Shut Down: Resources For Coast Guard
As the United States government heads into the 24th day of a partial government shut down (the longest in U.S. history), the United States...
How to Support a Mom After Miscarriage
Miscarriage is traumatic and heartbreaking and affects 15 to 20 percent of pregnant women. For many military spouses, miscarriages can occur when their partners are...
Eating Fat Burning Foods: 8 “Fattening” Foods That Keep You Skinny
The low-fat, high-fiber craze to lose weight is done and over with...or is it? Fat burning foods, what to eat, when to eat, heck,...
Do I Need a Power of Attorney?
If you’ve been stationed overseas and subjected to AFN commercials, you will giggle at the mention of Hercules and the Golden Fleece. While the...
The Root of Mommy Wars
Can we ditch the terms stay-at-home mom (or SAHM) and working mom? As mothers, we all work. We work to raise our kids and...
Why every neighborhood needs a Little Free Library
While the age old adage may be true that 'fences make good neighbors', courteous and conscientious neighbors can become some of your best friends....
9 Tips for Navigating Deployment with School Age Children
Preparing for a deployment is an emotional and stressful series of events. Trying to navigate the all the stressors of deployment with school age...
How to Stop Enabling Your Grown Children
Gone are the days when most young men and women graduated college in four years, bought a home by age 25 and started their...
Rock Drainage Landscaping: Redefine Your Landscape for the Better with These...
When it comes to landscaping, one concept has been steadily gaining ground, quite literally: Rock drainage landscaping – the art of using stones and...
