“Have you ever considered wearing an apron every morning while you get the children ready?” A simple question posed to me by a former Military Spouse. A very simple idea, but no, I had never considered it. I […]

Have you just finished filing your taxes in a different state to your spouse? Perhaps you just had a PCS and are in the process of updating your drivers license and registering to vote in your brand new “home […]

You could be forgiven for never having heard of the Family and Medical Leave Act. I certainly hadn’t until I started researching the leave that an employer was required to give an employee following the birth of a […]

I remember the first time my husband broached the idea of overseas orders…I think we were sitting down for a regular dinner and it went something like…”so I can go to an Aircraft Carrier job out of San Diego […]

I always enjoy checking the mail at this time of year. Opening the mailbox to find a couple of hand addressed envelopes lifts my spirits in a way that the store catalogues, credit card solicitations and bills can […]

A few months ago we took my two-year old daughter to the Blue Angels Air Show. She loves planes and so we thought that she would be particularly impressed by the fast, loud, colorful ones doing aerobatics. To […]

‘Tis the season to be jolly….but it can also be the season where you wake up one morning and find yourself over-obligated, exhausted, rushed, stressed and sleep deprived. When I drove past my street this week and […]