April 2012 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Can You Stop 18-Year Old From Getting Married?

Jeff’s 18-year old daughter is getting married. Considering the chances of a teen marriage lasting even ten years, that is problem enough. But Jeff’s daughter is marrying a military guy just out of boot camp. And Jeff is an ex-submariner whose family...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 10:19 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

PCS Vigilance

My husband had five duty stations in his first five years of being in the Army. I thought we were PCS pros. Moreover, nothing had ever gotten lost and nothing really had ever been damaged … at least nothing worth filing a claim over: one wooden...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS

Great Organization Supports MilKids

As I’m sure many of you have heard and read, April is the Month of the Military Child. It is a time set aside to celebrate the amazing children who navigate through the ups and downs of military life while we recognize and honor their sacrifices...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Resources, kids

Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant!

I’m not the type of girl who applies for TV shows. First of all, I have the unfortunate malady of being both really competitive and really bad at game shows, even from the comfort of my couch. And you know if you’re bad at it from your couch...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 2:00 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment, Spouse & Family News

Portability vs. Passion: 3 Steps To Put You Back On The Career Track

A “portable” career is not enough for military spouses. Although it is important to be able to take your career with you when your service member gets orders, fulfillment and passion are also required. That’s right: fulfillment and passion...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 12:30 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education

Army Wives Highlights Gay MilSpouses

If you didn’t see last week’s episode of “Army Wives,” you missed a first in the show’s history. The plot revealed that Charlie, a female civilian employee of Fort Marshall’s Youth Activity Services, is in a romantic relationship with a female...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 10:30 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment, Marriage & Family

Poll: What Goes in a Care Package?

We military spouses love putting together care packages for our servicemembers. We like to get creative. We like to be cutsie. And we really do want to send them stuff that they actually want. But after months of deployment, box after box and all those...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 5:15 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Poll

Top Ten Homecoming Don’ts

We all know our own, personal list of “to-do’s” for a military homecoming (take day off work, get hair done, create vacuum tracks, find cutie clothes for kids, lose 20 pounds, ditch three gallon tub of Rocky Road from freezer, dodge...

Published Sat, Apr 21 2012 7:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, SpouseBUZZ LIVE

Dr. Phil: PTSD Takes Us “From Heroes to Monsters”

A Dr. Phil show that aired this week said that veterans suffering from PTSD are damaged goods that can “dismantle marriages.” He titled the show “From Heroes to Monsters.” When I hear the word “monster,” it bears a...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 12:50 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment, Reintegration, Wounded Spouse, military, milspouse, Spouse & Family News, PTSD, Iraq, Afghanistan, The PTSD Breakthrough, Dr. Phil

PCSing to Korea? What I Wish I’d Known

So your spouse has orders to South Korea, and you are going to make it a family tour. Now that your tickets are booked, transportation has a packing date and you broke the news to the family members that you are headed overseas, what is your next step...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Resources

MilBlogCon: Slip Inside the Halls of Power

Someone told me this week that the reason military spouses do not hold positions of power in military programing is because they don’t get the right entry level jobs. That kind of comment used to make me wanna grind my teeth. Not anymore. Because in the...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 7:57 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

USAA Members Get A Shot At A Paid Gig

We get lots of inquiries from casting agents at SpouseBuzz, but this one is near and dear. A casting agent working for USAA called about a project they are putting together with military families. Dan Bell Casting (that guy who did the Darth Vader commercial...

Published Fri, Apr 20 2012 6:30 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment, Military Life

Embrace The Suck: Military Wife Quote

“Accept failure. Enjoy it even. Embrace the suck, for the suck is part of the process,” wrote AJ Jacobs in Real Simple magazine this month. Jacobs may have been writing about being more creative in your life, but he really came up with a great military...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 1:59 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

Travel Insurance Tips for Milfam Summer Fun

Trip planning is a large part of vacation/PCS preparations for our families, but what often gets discounted or simply overlooked is travel insurance. It can be the difference between a smooth sail or bumpy roads back home with nothing to show for it....

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 11:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Resources

O Pioneers! Embracing the PCS Life

Sometimes I wish America were a little bigger, and that there were areas of her still yet to be discovered. When I read frontier stories, tales of those first pioneers, I imagine being born a century and a half earlier. I would have jumped at the chance...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 8:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com