Holidays

This content is sponsored by The Breastfeeding Shop As parents everywhere are planning their holiday gift-giving, they must go through the frustrating process of matching their dreams to their budget. Every parent wants to give their kid fun things. We love to see our children’s huge smiles and the way their eyes light up when […]

You say Thursday, we say Friday eve. Either way, we can agree the best part of today is The Sip, the bi-weekly newsletter brought to you by the team at MilSpouseFest. Informed looks good on you.

In the US in early February, you see hordes of harried and hurried men scouring the racks for the perfect gesture of love. Those who are newly in relationships are trying to balance getting enough without getting too much. Guys who have settled into their coupledom are honestly just trying to not forget. On the […]

Welcome to 2018! If you are anything like me you try to have at least one New Year’s resolution. It could be to eat better, save more money or simply drink more water. But what if we added resolutions that were tailored to military life? Not only that, but resolutions that we will continue beyond […]

Focus words. Vision boards. Mindset shifts. Resolutions. December is a time to reflect on the past year and make plans for the next. It’s time to consider what went well and what could have gone better. December is a time to hit the refresh button and start new in the next year. Military life can […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. . . unless your spouse is deployed or away for military training. Then it can feel like the season of Bah Humbug. This isn’t my first December with a deployed spouse. I think it’s the fourth or fifth time he has been overseas during the holidays. But […]

Millions are planning to take a vacation this holiday season, and that means hotel bookings are being made in high volumes. But are they all legit? With reports that 55 million bookings were affected by hotel-related scams, costing consumers nearly $4 billion, hotel booking scams are more common than travelers may realize. The American Hotel […]

Let’s be real for a minute: This last year has been rough. I’m not even talking about your PCS or that never-ending deployment. It’s not even the fact that your child has caught literally. Every. Single. Illness. Known. To. Man. It’s been a tough 2017, politically and ideologically. No matter where you stand on the […]