By Team MSF Ah, Halloween… the season of frights and giggles, princesses and pirates, candy and costumes. The trees change (or they don’t, depending on where you’re stationed), you snuggle up to watch the Peanuts Gang look for the Great Pumpkin, and you grapple with a perennial problem: what the kids are going to wear […]
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Military Working Dog Retires to Fort Couch After Pristine Career
This story was originally published on Task and Purpose! For some soldiers, it can be hard to decide what to do first after retiring from an Army career. Should you immediately jump into whatever’s next, or maybe just relax on the couch for a little while, slobbering over your new favorite tennis ball? Okay — […]
How To Have a Date Night When Your Spouse is Deployed…in GIFs
This post originally appeared on Soldier’s Wife, Crazy Life. Your spouse is deployed, but you want to try to plan a date night anyway. This could work you think, even though you are 6,000 miles apart. You need that time with your spouse, and setting up a “date night” over video chat is the best […]
10 Ways to Make Long Distance Relationships Easier
There are ways to make the distance seem just a little shorter and make the time apart feel just a little easier.
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The Sip: National Coffee Day? Yes Please!
The Sip by MilSpouseFest Happy Wednesday! We kicked off our virtual events last week and had an amazing time! We want to send a HUGE thank you to our presenting sponsor USAA, for their continued support of MilSpouseFest and our military spouse community, we would not be able to do this without you! Thank you […]
7 Ways to Keep in Touch After a PCS
We’re busy. Life moves on. People fall in and out of your life. You fall in and out of people’s lives. But if it’s important to you to keep in touch, there are so many tools at your fingertips to make it happen.
Advice for New Spouses Transitioning Into Military Life
It took me some time to transition into living as a military spouse, but like any meaningful change, I learned a lot. Hopefully it can help you as you familiarize yourself with military life, too.
Are You Prepared for an Emergency?
It is important that all of us be prepared, whether it’s for the tropical storm headed our way or the volcano threatening to erupt or the mass protests on the streets that put our families at risk.