Military life is difficult to explain even to adults. Explaining it to children? Well, sometimes it’s impossible to find the right words. Fortunately, there are people out there who seemed to have found the right words and then put those right words together in books that children of all ages can understand and relate to. In honor of […] Read more…
10 Resources for Military Brats
Google Images As I’m sure you’ve already heard, April is the Month of the Military Child. What exactly does this mean? To me, it’s a reminder that I’m not the only one in this family making sacrifices for my husband’s military career. Not only are my children sacrificing as well, but they probably don’t even understand […] Read more…
Top 10 Favorite Roller Coaster Facebook Status Updates Part II
Last year I wrote a top 10 list of my favorite status updates on Facebook. It was pretty funny scrolling through months of status updates and reading friends’ comments as I collected my favorites for the list. Because I had so much fun the first time, I thought I’d throw together a sequel. So here […] Read more…
Top 10 Bad Habits I Would Adopt If Every Day Was a Mental Health Day
My daughter had a fever over the weekend. The fever was gone by yesterday morning, but school policy requires children to be fever-free for 24 hours before returning. So when she still had a fever Sunday afternoon, I started making arrangements to take the next day off from work. I have to admit that I was kind of […] Read more…
Top 10 Dr. Seuss Quotes
The National Education Society’s Read Across America is coming up in a few days on March 2nd, which is also the birthday of the amazing Dr. Seuss. So I thought I’d pull one of my old top 10 lists out of the archives to celebrate one of my favorite authors. Image Credit: Google Images As a parent trying to […] Read more…
Top 10 Things To Remember When Your Husband Is NOT Deployed
My husband is home. I don’t just mean he’s in the other room watching The History Channel. I mean he’s home as in he’s not “on a trip.” In fact, he’s been home a lot since his last deployment, way more than I’ve become accustomed to in our nearly 12-year marriage. And as strange as it sounds, […] Read more…
