PCS

Although it's March, for many of you, it still feels like winter. Most of my friends are posting pictures of snowy landscapes and adorable knit hats. I'm a sucker for an adorable hat, so I admit I feel a...

We’ve been at our new duty station for a little over seven months now, so we have passed the “adjustment period” of a typical permanent change of station. When you talk to other military spouses who have PCS’ed for...

  When my husband received orders to San Antonio, Texas, we knew it was only temporary. It happened to be one stop of many for his training. But because it required nine to twelve months of training, the Air Force allowed...

There I was enjoying a nice, relaxing shower. The kids were sleeping, the clothes were folded, and the floors were actually mopped hence I was enjoying a 10 minute shower instead of the typical hurried five minute one. Suddenly,...

Helping Kids Prosper Through PCS Season: 1 Her life was changing, cardboard boxes or not. And for military kids who are so often asked to deal with monumental life changes, maybe it’s the little things that can throw them off...

Dear Space X, In a few short years, my husband will be retiring from the Air Force, and I will be throwing in my apron as a stay-at-home mom. He will egress from the cockpit of his fighter jet after...

I have been a runner for the past 16 years. By no means am I a professional or elite runner, but I have run over a hundred races spanning in distance from one mile to 50 miles. In the...

The Winter Games are taking place in PyeongChang, a county in South Korea. This is the closest I have ever lived to any Olympic Games (currently stationed in Japan), but I feel so far away since I haven't seen...

The MilMB Real Estate Guide is a resource we have carefully curated with the distinct needs of military families in mind.  Military families tend to be experts at moving, but that doesn't make a permanent change of station any less...

Years ago, I attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, but, I didn't see much beyond Lackland's gates. Then, I was stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas, and while there, my friends...

To my many beautiful friends I have met along the way: You know who you are. We held tight to one another through a season. You were my neighbor, we sat next to each other in church, we played games on...

We've all been there. It's PCS time, and we miss the things we left behind. We miss the familiarity of knowing where all our favorite ingredients are at the grocery store. There's missing knowing how to get around. We...