I’ll never forget the morning I woke up and looked all around me, only to realize that we had too much…STUFF! The saying “Less is more”, definitely applies in military housing too. While my husband has been in the Navy for almost seven years, we’ve only lived in military housing for three. In this time, […] Read more…
5 Ways For Military Families To Still Have Fun While Waiting for Payday
Let’s face it we have all been there at one point or another. You just PCS’d, you are trying to save for a down payment on a vehicle, or some unexpected financial buy took a hunk of your budget. Whatever the case may be you wonder how you are going to make it until payday. […] Read more…
9 Must Do’s To Make Base Housing “A Home”
Often times we don’t feel at ‘home’ when we PCS. My first few moves were tough until I learned 9 tricks that I attempt in the first week of moving into our new house. With these few To Do’s on your move in list, you will no longer be jealous of your friends and their forever […] Read more…
12 Decor Pics That’ll Make You Ask: Is That Really Military Housing?
It’s no secret that many on base homes are older and tend to have a very blah feeling to them. Those hard, cold hospital floors, that horrible lighting, and some even have cinder block walls. If you’re lucky you will wind up with one of the newer homes but, no matter what home you get, you still need […] Read more…
6 Ways To Get Through The First Night Without Them
The military gives us a lot of first times. There’s the first PCS, the first TDY, the first deployment, and with the deployment comes the first night without them. That first night can be extremely lonely. No matter the length of time they’re gone for, it still can be tough for some to get through that […] Read more…
Diary of a PCS Part 2: Questions, Emotions and Deadlines
As I write this, emotions are raw and uncertainty abounds. Do other military spouses get this connected to their lives at a single duty station? Am I going to feel this way with every move, or is this circumstance unique? Will I ever feel like this about people and a particular place again? As my […] Read more…