I see a lot of those sweet, tear-jerker, deployment homecoming videos, That will make you cry, just by watching a few seconds of it. What they don’t show is the preparation it takes for the few seconds or 1 minute of the reunion of the families that it takes to get to that point. The Preparation The preparation is what they don’t show you. The time off the job (if you work) needed to pull off the “perfect” homecoming. The energy it takes, The food, the videos, the photos, preparing the kids for the spouses arrival, letting them know how to behave. They will be OF COURSE happy but the “red tape” of making sure your kids are behaving “Right”, takes a lot of work, in between, to make sure [Continue Reading…]
3 Back to school tips for Military Spouses
Going back to school or starting anything new, can be overwhelming and scary. Here are 3 tips for military spouses to help you get started. As a military spouse moving around with family and trying to figure out my career path has been a roller coaster ride. Having questions about who to call first? Wondering what your options are or how you’re going to afford to pay for school? Can be frustrating, daunting and can even discourage you from even starting school. The good news is as a military spouse you have Lots of options and resources that can help you get started, even with choosing what career path to take. I’m almost done with my degree and I’m glad I took that step to finish. Let me share with [Continue Reading…]
Love Our Vets Book Review
Love our Vets answers more than 60 heartfelt questions, providing down-to-earth wisdom and much-needed tips for taking care of yourself. The author Welby O’Brien shares as a counselor and from her personal experience of living with a 100% disabled veteran with PTSD, Welby are caught in the wake of the trauma. This book addresses a broad spectrum of issues and concerns and offers realistic wisdom from a wide variety of individuals who share from real hearts and lives. She has a masters degree in counseling from Portland state university and a teaching degree from Biola university. Her most important qualification is that she is married to a veteran with PTSD. Welby initiated and continues to lead a family support network known as Love our Vets. She lives what she writes. [Continue Reading…]
The Military spouse community
I talk a lot about being part of a community but never really shared with you what that is or what it can be. I was blessed with the opportunity to attend a military spouse event hosted by militaryoneclick, here in San Diego. Militaryoneclick is a resource dedicated to enhancing the lives of the military families and friends of the community in just one click. Their website helps provide the latest news, jobs, opportunities, deals, and events. They just hosted an event called: MilSpouseFest 2016. The theme was “YOU be YOU!” Which I loved because as military spouses we come from all different types of background, experiences, knowledge and when we come together, We can be a blessing to each other, Militaryoneclick did just that with this event. For future [Continue Reading…]
P065: The Modern Military Spouse
The Modern Military Spouse… Who is she? What does she do? How does she handle it all? These are the very topics, Jo from the blog JoMyGosh discuss and share tips, stories and laughs about the military lifestyle.
Deployment Stories: One BIG happy family
Deployments can be hard, let’s tackle this ugly monster together. Today’s story this spouse is President of the FRG and her husband serves in the navy. Here’s her story… My husband left for a 9 month deployment in June of 2014. The DAY he left, my youngest found some scissors upstairs (my husband was cutting tags from his shirts that morning before he left and accidentally left them out on the bathroom sink.) Without realizing the scissors were there, I sent my kiddos up to our room to watch a movie while I prepared dinner. 10 minutes later, my sweet little 2.5 year old came down with half of her head almost bald. I freaked out of course and couldn’t believe it! She cut SO much of her hair off. [Continue Reading…]
P057: Blogging 101: How to start and make money pt. 2
In part 1, Kathryn Sneed from Singing through the rain and I talked about getting started with a blog. We asked the question, which directions are you taking this blog, Is it to make money or is it a hobby? We gave tools for both situations. Now getting to the meat and potatoes of this blogging series, Making Money. Here are some ways Kathryn Sneed makes money from her blog. Just last year 2015, she made $30,000, we both discuss ways you can also achieve this. Making Money from blogging Make sure your blog is professional looking Be consistent with your blogging content. Good content. Guest post on other bloggers Trade services Start by offering services on your blog, such as: (Creating images for other bloggers, Writing content, [Continue Reading…]
Deployment Stories: A Mother’s Promise
Deployment stories is a way for military spouses to connect with other spouse, encouraging and inspiring stories of trials and victories during deployment. Letting them know if this spouse can do it, I can do it! In this story, this is spouse is a mom to 3 children and her husband is in the navy. She shares a story about keeping her promise to her daughter starting school, while her spouse is on deployment. Our oldest daughter was 5 years old the first time my husband went on deployment. We had just moved to CA and she was just starting Kindergarten so her separation anxiety was at an all time high. She made me promise that I would be there everyday to drop her off and pick her up from [Continue Reading…]
Deployment Diaries: A teenagers struggle
This spouse shares a touching story of how her husband went on deployment and how her son, being a teenager handle his dad being away. A lot of military spouses with children at any age has to deal with not only for themselves the emotional strained of their spouse being away, but how do you handle your children’s emotions when it comes to deployment? I Share different stories of how this spouse made it, and how other spouses can give others hope that it won’t be like this forever. I pray this story encourages you to continue during the rough times during deployment. In 2011, my family endured our 7th deployment. By this time, we would have thought as a family we would have had it down. However, each [Continue Reading…]
P055- A successful work/life balance at home (Kristen Smith) Pt. 2
We just finished with part one of having “A successful work/life balance at home” and I know after listening to it, it gave me chills, because of how much we think a like and how focus she and I are when it comes to our family and business. I pray you guys gain so much power packed information from part 1 of the podcast now here is part 2 of having “A successful work/life balance at home.” In this episode we continue the conversation of how can someone who is trying to figure out how to work their business and home life, what is the first step, she and I go deeper in our conversation, you might want to go and get some tea, a notebook and pen and write [Continue Reading…]
