How You Start Your Mornings

Starting your morning off on the right foot can mean the difference between a good day and a bad one. To be honest, some of my mornings are better than others. I recently started trying to use Kimberly’s morning preparation advice to get my day started right....

How To Paint Your Home Interior

Being in the military has advantages like living in different places and going on new adventures all over the world. My husband and I have always had in the back of our minds that we would buy a place if we got stationed in a city that we thought would be a good...

Three Must-Haves for Surviving a PCS in Skinny Jeans

The dreaded permanent-change-of-station season is upon us. It’s a time when military spouses put on a brave face and say goodbye to friends, do a deep cleaning and purge of their houses and lives (again), and wait for the movers to whisk everything to their next duty...

Father’s Day When Dad is Away

Just like with most holidays, the military can make celebrating Father’s Day difficult. Many times you are not stationed anywhere near your hometown to celebrate with your own dad. Things could be even more complicated than distance when you are trying to celebrate...

Preparing for Deployment: Creating a Financial Strategy

As with many things during deployment, the way you handle finances has to change right along with the change in circumstances. There is more money coming in, responsibilities for paying bills may shift, you have to make sure you have a power of attorney so you can act...

Four Tips to Start Geocaching

Four Tips to Start Geocaching I call geocaching hiking with a purpose. It’s a worldwide, GPS-enabled scavenger hunt that is fun for the whole family. Most recently, my daughter and I spent an afternoon with my parents exploring a cemetery, a road leading to a campsite...