During the last few days we’ve heard about the Petraeus scandal. As I was reading a Facebook friends status she brought up a great point about how to a degree the media has our marriage all wrong especially in the wake of this unfolding drama involving leaders in high military positions. Marriage is challenging period […] Read more…
Can The Army Inspect My House If I Live Offpost?
Yesterday a military spouse asked this question: As you can see there were hundreds of responses but our lovely moderator Genia posted the following: I then took it upon myself to see if I could locate the regulation and found the following: Reference for these regulations will not be found in an AR, but in […] Read more…
Should Have Bought a Lottery Ticket
Let me start by saying my neighborhood is small. There are 6 streets all in a pretty row and each street has approximately 16 houses. So that would be under 100 homes. Why the little math lesson? I just want to put the story I am about to tell you into perspective. I was walking […] Read more…
Get To Know Your Neighbors On Aloha Thursday
I know some of you will read this and think to yourself “I would NEVER hang out with any of my neighbors” or “I cannot stand so and so or her husband, so I would never break bread with them” and I TOTALLY understand how you feel. We have moved 9 times in 12 years […] Read more…
When Wives Wear Their Husband’s Rank…Revisited
Lateesha is the owner and creator of Thrifty Military Wife where she blogs about all things military, couponing tips, product reviews, and budget saving ideas! This topic has probably been discussed quite a bit throughout the military spouse blogosphere. The reason why I’m bringing it up again is because I recently overheard two spouses talking […] Read more…
Me and The Military Time Thing…Am I The Only One?
I will be the first to admit that I still have to google military time to figure it out. Some say just subtract twelve from whatever the military time is and you will get the correct time in lamen’s terms. Are you kidding me? Who has time to do algebra just to figure out what […] Read more…