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Casting Call: The Choir

Six months. Eight months. Twelve months. A deployment lasts a good long time. What if you had a project to do that would challenge you? Teach you? Energize you? What if it included other military spouses who might actually become dear friends? What do...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2012 5:06 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Entertainment

7 Reasons to Talk to Your MilKid About Feelings

Parenting is a tough job! How can you make it just a little easier? More than that, how do you make it a little easier and strengthen the bond with your awesome military kid? You can take a peek into their heads by helping them talk about feelings. Kids...

Published Fri, May 30 2014 4:32 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

5 Favorite Trump Cards For Military Marriage

The best marriage advice I ever got was, “No marriage is ever 50/50.” I remember at the time I was shocked. I was bound and determined to have equal distribution of everything. Looking back, it’s almost comical. I hate to break it to all the new military...

Published Mon, Jun 02 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

YDU: Responsible For My Own Happiness?

Why didn’t you tell me that in military life we are responsible for our own happiness–perhaps more than most? While struggling with the same day to day issues our civilian counterparts encounter, we are blessed with the struggles unique to military...

Published Wed, Jun 04 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

TGIF…I Hope

So our Easter curse is upon us and my husband leaves on Sunday to report for a three-month-long school. On the plus side, it’s not a deployment. Also it’s in a neighboring state, so he will only be three and a half hours away. We are hopeful...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 5:01 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, Military Life

Man, Oh Man….You’ve Got a Lovely Can!

I’m not a big fan of the PCS process. Never mind all of the well-known reasons Chinese water torture may be preferable to a PCS move, I’ve got one more. And it’s a yucky one. And it’s one I’m only reminded of when we move...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 1:26 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, I Love This Product

Touchdown: A Care Package for the Football Fan

With football season rapidly approaching your personal servicemember may be pining for his normal Monday night fun. So what do you do when you’re asked to ship the Gridiron Express halfway across the world? We’ve compiled seven easy football...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Military Wife Quote: The Past is a Foreign Country

Every time my husband comes home from an absence — whether it be one month or nine — I am astounded by how much things change while he is gone. Babies get bigger. Children learn new skills. I discover new strength within myself that I previously...

Published Sun, Aug 12 2012 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Reintegration, Quotes

Does It Take a Certain Personality to be a Military Spouse?

The other day I was talking to a friend about personality types, and she asked me if I had ever taken a personality assessment. I know I took the Myers-Briggs a couple of times in college, but that was a million years ago, so I thought I’d find an online...

Published Tue, Aug 14 2012 10:17 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Life

SAHM: The Work That Just Keeps Stressing

When she saw my survey results showing that 68 percent of long married military wives identified themselves as primarily stay at home moms (SAHMs), my thesis advisor tried to make a gentle suggestion. “Maybe they marry into the military because they want...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: kids

Why I Sleep With a Stuffed Polar Bear

Last week I left my husband home alone to handle the kids, packed my stuffed polar bear in my suitcase and went to New York City for the weekend. Hi, my name is Amy and, yes, I sleep with a stuffed polar bear. My roommates for the weekend, both military...

Published Thu, Aug 16 2012 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Top Ten Way NOT To Spend Stay-At-Home Wife Time

Our blogger Allie is going through that pesky stay-at-home military wife phase. No, she didn’t stumble into a time machine and wake up in Pleasantville. She just left her job in Washington, D.C. and moved with her Marine husband to rural North Carolina...

Published Sat, Aug 18 2012 9:30 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Humor

The Best ‘Home is Where’ Ideas Ever!

Regular people in decorating magazines collect ceramic chickens, hotel silver, blue and white plates, itty bitty Elvises. Military folks collect addresses. Lots and lots of addresses. When you move every other year or so, you collect addresses and the...

Published Sat, Jul 12 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS, Military Lifestyle

What to Do About Toxic FRG Members?

When do you move?? For the past 12 years, I’ve volunteered with the local installation or the Family Readiness Group wherever we have lived. When I meet a truly negative spouse in the FRG, I’m able to retract and wait for one of us to PCS. Or I divert...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: FRG/Spouse Support

Mailbag: How Do I Pick a Good Neighborhood?

Think back to your last Permament Change of Station (PCS), and you’ll remember the anxiety you felt trying to decide where, exactly, you were going to live. On base? Off base? And, if off, what neighborhood? If you’re lucky, you had time to...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: PCS

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