Parenthood

January. Oh, January. The time when we envision a clean slate. The holidays have come and gone, the decorations have been tucked away and we have 10 months to wait before the anticipation of giving thanks and getting gifts...

With the end of the year comes reflection about what has gone well (and what hasn't!), and we are setting our sights on how to make 2024 even better! In order to do that, we need YOUR help! At The...

Life as a Military Spouse is not easy, so when someone mentions the term “Mindset Shift,” we might immediately roll our eyes, scoff and revert to internally scrolling through all of the not-so-easy things that come to mind. There...

Always the hustle and bustle with our past trying to see both families on the East Coast. I thought it was so hard and easy at the same time. Renting a car to fit our family of 6, plane...

December 1st is National Women Support Women Day, one of the many thousands of celebrations we've attached to a calendar day that most of us never knew existed. And while I'm all for a day to celebrate pancakes, pirates,...

THE NOTIFICATIONS I’m not sure what I did or when the feature began, but within the last 6 months my phone has started alerting me of my drive to home ETA. When it started, I’d be hopping in the car,...

National Family Literacy Month is an opportunity to celebrate and encourage caregivers reading to children and to spread awareness of the benefits that reading aloud can have on children. There is a plethora of research that has revealed the...

The holiday season was upon us, our first (and only) year at our current duty station. I was excited. The previous year had been devoid of parties and gatherings of all kinds, due to the pandemic. Now, we lived...

It's none of our business what other people think about us. We've heard it all before. We know we shouldn't care what others think, and yet, we still do and want to know what they think about us. Do they like...

10 months is a long time to be without your spouse...or your dad. 10 months is just short of a year. 10 months will be almost half of our youngest’s little life. 10 months of deployment is no joke....

As a homeschool mom, the end of summer has both positive and negative connotations. I take a moment to mourn lazy mornings and endless hours of porch-sitting with friends. I now must get back to some sort of schedule....

Media is everywhere.  Sometimes it feels like it’s hard to escape it.  It can be even harder to know how to help our kids navigate the constant barrage of information when events around the world, or around the corner,...