In 2010, our family flew into Nashville and started the Fort Campbell chapter of our lives. When my husband got out of active duty in 2014, he joined the National Guard, and we stayed put here in Clarksville, TN. I have now lived here longer than anywhere else besides where I grew up. If you…
Disneyland is one of my favorite places to go, and it’s great that there is such an amazing Disneyland military discount. Growing up just 20 minutes from the park, I went often, having annual passes from the age of 10 to 18. Since I moved out of Southern California, I have tried to visit whenever…
Wouldn’t it be fun to be in the same Time Zone? This question kept bouncing around in my head. My husband had been called up from the US Navy Reserves and was stationed at As Sayliyah Army Base, Qatar. After 18 years of marriage, I was used to the Active Duty / Civilian Life hybrid….
When Your Season of Deployment Is Over When my husband first deployed to Iraq, I was 27. I am now 46. The time between now and then seems impossible. Almost 20 years? How? He deployed three more times in the seven years following that deployment. We had two more children and returned to the US…
Does TRICARE pay for doulas? Before I had my own children, I went through doula training and attended quite a few births. I absolutely loved it. When I had my first child, I had a doula at my birth. Doulas can provide fantastic support for a woman during childbirth. According to DONA International, a doula is…
I became an Army spouse back in 2012 in the Colorado Springs/Fort Carson area. This is where the journey began for my husband, myself, our daughter, and later, our son. Everyone says I can never be with someone in the Military. They always ask, “How do you do it?” My response is, “ I just…
A few years before my husband joined the military, we went to the movies to watch the 2002 film We Were Soldiers. What I really enjoyed about this movie was that we not only got the story of Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore, played by Mel Gibson, but we also got the story of his wife,…