Official Lifestyle Blog For Today's Army Wife
When my husband and I first started dating, I worked three jobs and was attending school with the hopes that I would be entering the nursing field. In fact, I was working so much that I quit my 3rd part-time waitressing job in order to be able to spend more time with my soon-to-be husband. […] Read more…
The rank game gets old doesn’t it? And you’re probably thinking, oh here goes another entitled spouse whining about ways in which the Army takes advantage of her. Quite the contrary actually, I like the traditions of the military. And I like smashing those stereotypes and expanding those roles. They say the grass is always […] Read more…
Every year the DOD releases the rates of which military personnel will receive for military housing. Your Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rate is determined by zip code and rank. According to SpouseBuzz BAH for 2017 is only intended to cover 97% of your household expenses (which still isn’t bad), but more cuts are expected […] Read more…
If you ever find yourself driving down the Richardson Highway, south of Fort Wainwright and north of Eielson Air Force Base there is a little town by the name of North Pole, Alaska. This town without question lives up to its name. Streets by the name of Santa Claus Lane and St Nicholas Drive are […] Read more…
I remember my first Christmas as a new Army wife like it was yesterday. I had a small tree in my townhouse I shared with my sister and just a few presents tucked under the tree. Post office boxes lined the wall to my dining room that were meant to be shipped and hopefully reach […] Read more…
When we learned that our first duty station would be Wiesbaden, Germany, my husband and I were elated. I soon realized that I would be raising our 2-year-old and a 5-month-old sons without my hometown support network of family and friends. I had grown accustomed to my little village and wondered how I would fare […] Read more…