Military Mom Collective

There have been many times over the years that the father of my children has looked at me in such a way that I just couldn’t help but fall in love with him all over again. There's the countless...

How am I going to be ‘Dad of the Year’ if I’m a self-serving psycho who craves little things like food and water? All joking aside, surely you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Developed by Abraham Maslow in 1943,...

Pregnancy. That beautiful time in a woman's life when perfect strangers feel they can say anything - and everything - they want to you. Because that's clearly the ONE time in a woman's life when our self-confidence is soaring high enough...

You might have noticed threading kiosks popping up in malls across America lately. They're fairly minimal with reclining salon chairs and nothing more than a technician with a spool of cotton thread to shape the eyebrows of clients. Individuals...

Loving Day celebrates June 12, 1967, when the US Supreme Court ruled to disband all anti-miscegenation laws. These laws forbid interracial marriages and were mainly focused on relationships between Caucasian and non-Caucasian individuals. They were on a state-by-state basis. Many...

  When you are juggling deployments, moves, and job changes, finding time to take a family vacation can be challenging. But research suggests that spending time and money on experiences with your family is well worth the investment. Our four...

Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain Has Died at 61. The news alert popped up on my phone as I woke up yesterday. No. What? I had to put my glasses on to ensure I had read the headline correctly. The news was being...

In early May I had the opportunity to attend a conference called Homefront Rising, in Washington D.C. Homefront Rising is a one-day non-partisan leadership boot camp for military spouses. It focuses on running for office, advocacy and teaching military spouses to...

My son turns 4-years-old this month. So far, he mostly seems concerned about his cake, unsure whether it should be firetruck or dinosaur themed. All that’s certain at this point is that, in true military-kid fashion, we will be...

As I’ve written before, I came to motherhood late in the game. My husband and I celebrated our eleventh anniversary a few months before our son was born. He was born ten days before I turned 35, that all...

We are weeks away from our cross country Permanent Change of Station (PCS) and the "going away" coffees, lunches, potlucks, and parties are in full swing. We're slowly making our way around to the various groups of people that...

Mom Gut. Maternal instinct. You have it. Trust it. I loved this article by Michelle Martin of the Huffington Post. It speaks volumes about emotional intelligence (EI) and how our culture tends to undermine it. Emotional intelligence/instinct are not necessarily the same, but...