Travel & Holidays

When I lived at home with my parents, my sister and I were devoted to our family traditions. Heaven help my parents if they dared to deviate from our beloved rituals of Mannheim Steamroller on the way home from...

Everyone jokes about how terrible fruitcakes are. I wanted to see if they were right. Fruitcake gets a bad rap and I wanted to see if it was true. I searched the internet for hip, cool, new fruitcake recipes which...

We just got back from our first trip with our infant. I waited to write this post until after the trip because I wanted to see how it turned out. In our pre-baby life, my husband and I were...

Many of us journey home for the holidays. Or, for a couple of weeks in the summer. Or, in September because we miss our moms, or our friends, or Imo's Pizza. For me, there is true comfort in going back...

When the nesting urge struck me recently, it struck like lightning. Everything that lingered on my to-do list for the last eight months suddenly felt more urgent than ever before. In one hormone and coffee fueled afternoon, I reorganized...

It is fall, and I love it. It’s hard to give up an Alaskan summer, but as a prior Texas girl, one of the things I love about Alaska is the cool, crisp autumn. This year it came early,...

  Like you, many of the contributors of Military Moms Blog have had a Permanent Change of Station this summer. With the way the military moves, there are always more to come. Our family is headed to Alaska this winter,...

When someone says "winter vacation," I highly doubt the idea of going to Ireland is high on the priority list. However, our family of four spent nine glorious days traveling southern Ireland over winter break, and we could not...

November is National Native American Heritage Month and a great opportunity to learn more about American Indian and Native Alaskan nations, people, and cultures. One of our family's favorite ways to learn is through reading, and today I am...

We live far away from family. Like really far. If we want to visit family and friends, we must fly around the world (literally), which is at least a 24-hour journey filled with many meltdowns and many tired moments....

The Holiday Season is Upon Us. Depending on your family, this phrase may conjure joy or excitement. Or, pure, unmitigated stress.*  If you are a military family, there is a good chance you will be traveling at some point this...

My name is Heather, and I don't want to go "home" for the holidays. I grew up in the Midwest with two parents and one sister. My daddy passed away in 2009 and I don't have the greatest relationship with...