Category: Military Spouse Advice
How to be Happy!
Welcome to Happiness Happens Month. What is Happiness Happens Month? I will tell you and hopefully you’ll be happier knowing. “The Secret Society of Happy People started celebrating happiness with Admit You’re Happy Day on August 8, 1999. But our members wanted to let the happy feeling linger a little longer, so in 2000 […]
Read MoreHeavenly ways to Love with your New Duty Station
A Past Remembered Moving can be a very stressful thing in one’s life. Recently I just packed up a 3-bedroom house and moved into a smaller two bedroom apartment. I can’t believe how much stuff I accumulated in the four years I lived at my house. There were lots of things about my […]
Read MoreKeep New Year’s Resolutions with this Simple Mind Set
The New Year is here and I don’t know if I am quite ready yet. Hopefully you are ready to take on this new year. I can’t believe another year has passed. I was looking over some of my old blog posts from last year and it amazing how fast time flies. I really can’t […]
Read More5 Ways to Motivate Yourself When Military Life Gets Tough
How do you motivate yourself to keep going when things get tough? Its easy to get caught up in the cycle of giving up and then not trying basically its easier to give up and find an excuse than to put in the work and power though. I know I am guilty of giving up […]
Read MoreThe Best Way to Read to the Children in your Life when Far Away
My connection to the military is I grew up with the military in Germany in the ’80s and ’90s. My parents were teachers at DoDDs schools. I was fortunate enough to be there when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed. I also distinctly remember the beginning of Desert Storm. So many […]
Read More10 Quotes to Uplift your Spirits
Life is hard sometimes and tests you, challenges you with thing don’t know if you can handle. Often times we can turn to those closest to us and sometimes we can’t. We must rely on our selves to pick up the pieces and move on. However, that isn’t always so easy. Here are 10 quotes […]
Read More20 of the very best Self-Care Pins for Milspouses
When you are a military spouse self care is especially vital because you are on the military’s schedule when it comes to how things pan out. Which isn’t a bad thing just a different way of getting through every day life situations. I struggle the most with anxiety. I try to limit chaos or drama […]
Read More7 Blunders to Avoid as a New Milspouse
Live your life in the present, tackle one thing at a time. I would say once the military is a part of your life its really about the here and now. The only thing that is constant when it comes to the military is change. How do you make sense of military life, if you […]
Read More6 Harsh Realities of being a Military Spouse and How to Embrace it
Military spouses on the home front are just extraordinary and adaptable as their counterpart spouse who is in the military. Each military family willingly sacrifices parts of their life’s, to allow their family member in the military to protect and defend the United States of America. On the home front as a military spouse it can […]
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