October 2012 - Spouse Buzz - The Network of Care

Top Ten Reasons NOT to Stay Home This Weekend

I always enjoy the debate our readers have about what to wear and what not to wear to a military ball or a homecoming event. We have the folks who wanna wear what they wanna wear cuz they are hot enough to wear it. We have the people who wanna school...

Published Sat, Oct 06 2012 5:10 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SpouseBUZZ LIVE

Why We Sued Tricare and Won … Sort Of

There are certain events in your life that remain with you forever. The day you get married, the birth of your children, the deaths of your parents and siblings and the day your child is diagnosed with autism. For me, that day was August 11, 2007 at 3...

Published Mon, Oct 01 2012 5:35 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

Send Your Spose on Jeopardy

If watching Jeopardy with your spouse is anything like watching Jeopardy with mine it’s, well, annoying. And a little embarrassing. Frankly, and don’t tell him I said this, the man just knows more than I do. Never mind, I just can’t...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2012 4:26 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment

Happy Birthday Navy: Still Getting Lei’d?

What do you get the Navy for their 237th birthday? Instead of my usual happy reading of VADM Harold M. Koenig’s “I Like The Navy” essay, I was thinking we should be more festive this year. I was thinking that it sure would be cute to get out all those...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment, Military Life

How Soon Should You Tell Your Kids About a PCS?

“I told my friends that we’re moving,” my 8-year-old son announced while I was cooking dinner. “Why would you do that?” I asked. “We’re not moving.” But maybe we were. And maybe I had just lied to my very intuitive son. And maybe I had absolutely no idea...

Published Mon, Oct 15 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

3 Tips for Handling Predeployment Stress

Household Bushatz is in a predeployment holding pattern. If you’re gearing up for deployment (or have recently done so) you know what I’m talking about. It’s like climbing that hill on the roller coaster. It’s going up, up, up and you are feeling more...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Making Mealtime Military Family Time

How do you spend “family time?” And I’m not talking about silently sitting on the couch watching TV together in the evenings. Between your spouse’s military career, your kids’ school and extracurricular schedule, the pets running all over the place...

Published Mon, Oct 08 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness

4 Ways to Deal With Student Loans Without a Job

We know how hard it can be for military spouses to find work at all – much less work in their area of expertise that can even come close to helping paying well. But when you add student loans to the mix, you can feel like you’re on the brink of disaster...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Legal & Financial

Spouse Programs Only For Stay Home Moms?

My boss told me this would happen. He said that if we hosted a SpouseBuzz LIVE event on a weekday that the working spouses would feel excluded and insulted. “No way,” I exclaimed. “There are only 168 hours in a week and those working spouses do not have...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2012 5:12 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SpouseBUZZ LIVE, FRG/Spouse Support

Poll: Best Way to Make Spending Cuts

If there’s one thing we know about our readers, it’s that they are smarty pants. They know what’s going on in their world. They do their best to know about the programs the military offers them — and they use them. Which is why...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, Poll

YDU: Being a Stay at Home Wife is a Job

Being a stay at home wife is a job. It is a job without pay, and sometimes a job without thanks, but it is a job. From dusting to laundry to grocery shopping, there is always something to be done. Anyone who says it isn’t work has never cleaned...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Career & Education

Eating Across America: Become a Military Foodie

One of the perks of being an active duty military family is that we get to live all over the country. (Admittedly, it’s also one of the downsides too.) We’re never in one place too long, right? And while dealing with the PCS and relocating everything...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2012 9:42 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Health & Fitness

Relieve That Stress With a Little Boob Tube

If you’ve ever felt stressed, you’re probably familiar with ways to get rid of that stress. You probably know what those helpful “resiliency” people and their books usually say: meditation, breathing exercises, listening to music, exercising, cutting...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness

What you SHOULD Wear to a Military Ball

Although there’s still lingering debate, you know my one fashion rule: Lingerie is not clothing. Which makes it hard to figure out what to wear to your military ball if you’ve wandered the aisles of the PX recently. Dresses that have more...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2012 4:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Lifestyle

Do We Fight for War or Peace?

Recently, while covering the premier of a military documentary, I encountered a woman who I assumed (like me) was wearing a loved one’s dog tags, except hers were a highly polished piece of jewelry. It wasn’t just any jewelry. She was the founder of a...

Published Fri, Oct 19 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com