Military Mom Collective

Moms. Seriously. We live in Argentina, and if you know anything about Argentina, you know that it might actually be the meat capital of the world. When you go to a restaurant, what’s on the menu? Meat. When you...

Threenager: (n) 1. a 3-year-old in stature with the attitude the size of a teenager; 2. a pain in the butt; 3. my kid I knew I was in hot water after a conversation argument over breakfast one morning:  C: I...

I co-wrote a post a couple of months ago describing my feelings towards the pumpkin spice latte, (I hate it), and at the end, I mentioned my favorite warm drink — a chai latte. Give me all the chai, please. Winter...

Military Moms Blog, the premier online military parenting website, is creating a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) resource guide, and we want to feature YOUR business! Here at Military Moms Blog, there are few things we love more than providing...

I don’t possess any superhuman powers, but I was born on December 25, Christmas Day. Yup, I share my birthday with St. Nicholas, Santa and Jesus. My name, Natalie Noel literally means “Christmas Day Christmas” in French, for which I...

Today, I met your mother in law. She gushed on and on about her son (stationed where we just left), her grandson (still in your womb), and how amazing we military families are. In the same breath, she leaned...

On a sunny December morning three years ago, my kids woke up to the sound of Christmas music and the aroma of our traditional egg casserole filling the house. The warm Texas sun beat through the windows, catching a...

I love the holiday season. Enormous inflatables taking over everyone's lawn fills me with tacky glee.  I love the delicious food I can't stop making and consuming. And I love Christmas music.   I love the music so much that...

One of my favorite Christmas songs is Mariah Carey’s "All I Want for Christmas Is You." We are currently surviving our fifth deployment, but this will be the first year I will be singing that song with honest feelings...

My husband has served in the Air Force for 16 years. I served for four. And in that time, we have never lived in base housing. We never even tried. We never took a tour of any family housing...

   “I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion." -- John Steinbeck Texans are many things: independent, tough, proud, and, above all, loyal....

Christmas. As the song goes, "It's the most wonderful time of the year." However, for many of us, it also can be the most stressful time of the year. Besides all of our normal day to day activities and work, there...