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You know who is the absolute worst when it comes to self-care? This girl! Seriously, for all the times I've told friends to take care o...

Transition is hard. There's nothing remarkable about the premise. All military families know transition is hard. I would bet that most ...

Some twenty-five years ago, Congress designated the month of May as National Military Appreciation month. It's not a particularly w...

I've been talking a lot lately about the importance of voting this election season. Maybe it's because the military families comm...

We had one of those ' it could have been a lot worse ' moments recently. A couple of weeks ago, we took a family trip to Arkansa...

It's been two months to the day since Jake came home from Afghanistan, and I think I'm finally ready to write about our homecoming....

If you follow me on Facebook, which many of you do, you've seen me talking about the fact that May  is Military Appreciation Month....

Update (8/26/14):  I'm thrilled to report that the cursed truck has now been replaced with a new (hopefully less cursed) truck. The rep...