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The Military & My Marriage: Did I Really Know What I Was Getting Into?

Amanda is a 30-something Army wife, mother, and IT professional. Originally from Michigan, she moved to NYC in 2000 for a taste of big city life. Now living in the suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, 18 month old son – Marshall, and 4 cats, Amanda balances family, work and the Army every day. [...]

The Military & My Marriage: Commitment

Nadine blogs at The Albrecht Squad. Her family is a proud Army family always looking forward to whatever adventure the Army decides to throw at them next! Whether it’s deployment, training or just Army life in general, there is nothing they can’t survive together! Nadine is an Army Veteran herself married to an active [...]

The Military & My Marriage: Communication

“LC” blogs over at Faith & Deployments. She’s been an Air Force Spouse for 3 years and with her Airman for 4. They are the parents to a four-legged brat/beagle mix named Samson. He was diagnosed with Epilepsy about 6 months ago, a new challenge for both of LC and her husband. They’re in the [...]

The Military & My Marriage: Newlyweds

Elizabeth is a 27-year-old housewife and ETSYpreneur living in Sunny Southern California near Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton with her Navy husband and their three furbabies. She is learning her new lifestyle around three deployment separations one burnt boiling pot of water at a time and blogging all about it over on The Young Retiree! —————————— [...]

The Military and My Marriage

May is Military Spouse Appreciation month. I’ve said it before I find these month long dedications to a specific cause or group of people to be silly and somewhat trite. If you want to bring attention to your cause you should push the message year round. With that said however it is an opportune time [...]

10 Commandants of an Army Wife

Today I’m guest posting for my friend Maria over at A Life to Bragg About. She’s an Army wife and a new momma. Besides showing off her cute as a button little boy, handsome husband and her incredibly fit self, she blogs about clean eating, her fitness goals and life in general. ——————————————————— When Maria [...]

Six Sanity Savers For the First Six Months

Today I’m guest blogging over at Singing Through the Rain. Kathryn is a fellow military wife and motherhood. ————————————- People, I survived the first six months of having a baby. I think this qualifies me for my own television show a la Bear Grylls only my show would be (Wo)Man v. Child. I would be [...]

I Miss Iraq, a Soldier’s Perspective

It’s difficult to believe that today marks the “official” end to the Iraq war and that there will no longer be troops in Iraq serving in the Operation Iraqi Freedom(OIF) campaign after eight long years. Millions of service members have sacrificed so much, some even their own lives, to serve in our nation’s military. Tim [...]

Christmas Stocking Tutorial

One of the awesome things about the internet is finding all sorts of people who know how to do all sorts of cool things that you either never thought of or could never in a million years do without explicit instruction from someone else. I “met” Bethany through a pregnancy message board. Along with the [...]

I Have a Dirty Little Secret

Today I’m guest blogging over at All Because Two People Fell In Love. Suzanne in a fellow military wife and mom. When she asked for a guest post she said I could write about anything so I took some inspiration from her blog and decided to share a secret with you (and the entire internet [...]

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