In the summer of 2009, I waited in an airport terminal in a fancy dress and heels. I never wear heels but this was a special day. My husband was flying in from Iraq for a two-week R&R during his year-long deployment. My boys and I were in California visiting my family, and that is…
The SWCL Shop was started in 2021, to bring my designs to the marketplace. I have created a store on Zazzle to offer my designs and memes on magnets, stickers, prints, and more! Perfect for your military spouse life. This post contains affiliate links! Here is what you can find in the shop! Purple Flowers…
Last year was a GREAT reading year for me. I had the goal of reading 100 books and I read 112. This was the first time I had hit my goal of 100 books for the year. As the year wrapped up, I wanted to figure out what my top books were in 2021. I…
We have all been the newbie military spouse. The one who really didn’t know how to navigate this life. The one who had all the questions. But as time goes on, as you go through a deployment or two, have a PCS under your belt, you realize you are no longer the newest military spouse…
It has been 3.5 years but I took my boys back to Disneyland the first week of 2022, and we had an amazing time! We bought the 3-day military salute tickets, and here is how it went! First of all, this is what we did to get the tickets and get ready for our trip….
During the first week of 2022, we did three days at Disneyland using the Disneyland Military Discount! We had so much fun but one of the biggest highlights of the trip was Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland! Galaxy’s Edge opened in 2019 and you can find it in between Fantasyland and Frontierland. It was the first…
You don’t have to be a military spouse for too long to have had the military cancel your plans. Whether it is something small, like a date you had planned, or an appointment you needed them to be with you at, to bigger things such as a deployment changing its dates, or a move being…
