Official Lifestyle Blog For Today's Army Wife
“I still cannot believe that I found the man of my dreams in a war zone,” shares Heather*. She is an Army veteran and Army wife, who met her husband while they were both deployed to Afghanistan. Because the military has strict policies in place on intimate relationships in this situation, names have been changed […] Read more…
You want something for yourself. You support your spouse who signed up to work for Uncle Sam, but in the process, you find that you don’t necessarily have the opportunity to work outside the home. Perhaps it’s because you have young children, your spouse’s schedule is unpredictable, you’re finalizing a degree, or you can’t always […] Read more…
My name is Jackie and I am an Army wife. My husband has served for five years and has been fortunate enough (in my eyes, not so much his), to be assigned to non-deploying units. Everything changed the day he informed me that he had to deploy. I invite you to join us as I […] Read more…
My husband wasn’t a soldier when I met him, far from it actually. When we first locked eyes, he was a 19-year-old with more hair than the military would ever allow, singing karaoke at a college party. Three years after that meeting, we were married. He was finalizing his degree in political science while I […] Read more…
Deployment is not an easy subject to explain to children. All they know is that mom or dad will be away and may miss birthdays, holidays, soccer games, bedtime — the list goes on and on. How do we explain deployment to our little ones when they ask the big question of why? Wouldn’t it […] Read more…
Each January, we are given the opportunity to start fresh. “New year, new you,” is a slogan we often hear with the exciting promise of something better. Aside from shedding a few of the holiday pounds that I found last month, I thought about what I — as a milspouse — would like to accomplish […] Read more…