Preparing For Your Fall or Winter Baby This post is sponsored by The Breastfeeding Shop! It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that I was pregnant with my first little boy, waiting for the long summer to end. The last trimester of pregnancy isn’t fun, but if you are due during the fall…
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What You Need To Know About Ordering Your TRICARE Benefit Breast Pump Accessories and Supplies
What You Need To Know About Ordering Your TRICARE Benefit Breast Pump Accessories and Supplies This is a sponsored post by the Breastfeeding Shop. If you don’t already know, you can receive one breast pump at no cost through your TRICARE benefit, for every birth event. A birth event would be giving birth to a…
How To Make Friends When Your Kids Are All In School
How To Make Friends When Your Kids Are All In School When your kids are small, making friends seems to be a bit easier, especially within military communities. Everyone has small kids, or so it seems. But something happens when your youngest child goes off to school, and you don’t have anyone at home with…
How To Order A Breast Pump That Is Covered By TRICARE
How To Order A Breast Pump That Is Covered By TRICARE This is a sponsored post by the Breastfeeding Shop. Did you know that you can order a breast pump that is covered 100% by TRICARE? This started in 2014, and yes it is true. For every one birth event you have, you can receive…
How You Can Prepare For A Summer Baby
How You Can Prepare For A Summer Baby This is a sponsored post! If you have ever been pregnant over the summer, you know how difficult it can be to get through those hot and humid months not quite feeling like yourself. If your baby is due in the summer, you probably have a…
Deployment One of Our Pieces is Missing by Julia Cook
Deployment One of Our Pieces is Missing by Julia Cook If you are raising military children you might always be on the lookout for books that can help them through the challenges of military life, such as deployments. I was sent one of these books for review! Deployment One of Our Pieces is Missing by national…
101 Things to Do With Your Kids During a Deployment
101 Things to Do With Your Kids During a Deployment So your spouse just deployed and you and your kids are in for a long journey. You look at how many months you have to get through, and you want to cry. How will you deal with this? How will you be able to stay…
The Life of A Military Child
The Life of A Military Child April is the month of the military child. The children of those who have chosen to serve their country. The children of those who have given up their normal lives to protect the lives of others. The life of a military child can look very different from the life of…
How Raising a Child On The Autism Spectrum Helps Me As A Military Wife
How Raising a Child On The Autism Spectrum Helps Me As A Military Wife Raising a child on the autism spectrum has taught me a lot over the years. There are so many lessons to be learned when your child needs a little extra help and a little extra patience. Some of these lessons have…
16 Ways You Know You Are Raising Children In A Military Family
16 Ways You Know You Are Raising Children In A Military Family I had exactly 13 months of raising children before we became a military family. When my husband joined the military in 2005, our oldest son was only a little over a year. All the parenting I have done after that has been within…