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New Military Spouses Need Seat Around The Table

What’s the first thing you do when you meet a brand new military spouse — young and in love? Struggling to make ends meet? Brave in that way only the young are truly brave? If you are like longtime military author and publisher Karen Pavlicin-Fragnito...

Published Thu, Oct 16 2014 8:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SpouseBUZZ LIVE, Military Life

Dual Military Marriage: 5 Factors That Will Trigger ‘The Talk’

Did you and your partner ever have ‘The Talk?’ Every couple does. At some point after you start dating, the two of you have to define the relationship: Are we exclusive? Where is this relationship headed? Do you love me as madly as I love you? In a dual...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family, dual military

5 Picture Presents We’re Ordering for our Holiday Care Packages

It’s that time of year again. When the rest of the world starts buying Halloween candy, and we start thinking about what on earth we can put in a Christmas or Hannukah box that might take the bite out of holidays away from home. This year, we’ve...

Published Tue, Oct 14 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: I Love This Product, Military Lifestyle

Should A Pregnant Cinderella Go to the Ball?

Cinderella has always welcomed the opportunity to strut her stuff at the ball. Maybe she leaves the pumpkin chariot at home, but hey, she shows up, looking awesome, sparkly shoes and all. Until… she got pregnant again and wasn’t just-a-little...

Published Tue, Oct 14 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Military Lifestyle

Tricare Cuts to ABA Could Diminish Services for Autistic Kids

Services for autistic military children are on the chopping block again. Tricare proposed making cuts that could potentially affect thousands of special needs children. The new Tricare Autism Demonstration would combine Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA...

Published Mon, Oct 13 2014 12:33 PM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Resources, Military Life

Commissary and Plastic: No Ban on the Horizon

As more and more grocery stores and municipalities ban plastic bags or, in some places like Washington, D.C., tax their use, the commissary still offers them. But after one website questioned whether or not the commissary should be offering plastic bags...

Published Mon, Oct 13 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, commissary

Thanks to the L’il Helper at Home!

I’m always a little uncomfortable when some general or admiral or elected official decides to thank a crowd of military spouses for all we do. It isn’t that we don’t deserve thanks. We do. It’s just that I worry during all that thanking that the sentiment...

Published Sun, Oct 12 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Marriage & Family

10 Ways To Be An Awesome Mom — On The Cheap!

The things that make a person a good mom or dad always seem a little boring to me. I can do them. I can cook nutritious meals and brush little teeth and make itty bitty kiddies feel safe and cuddly. (I can put the fear of Mom into a teenager, too, Buddy...

Published Sat, Oct 11 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SpouseBUZZ LIVE, kids

Kids Worry About Your Safety, Too

Kids are going to say what they are going to say when they want to say it. The trouble is I have no idea what I am supposed to say in return–especially when it comes to deployment. When I had a ten-year-old tell me that he was afraid extremists...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Deployment

Operation Homefront Food Event Coming to You

A new free grocery and healthy eating event may be coming to a military installation near you thanks to Operation Homefront and grants from the Walmart Foundation. The Growing Healthy Military Families campaign will visit 15 military bases from Colorado...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Health & Fitness

US Produce at Commissaries in Asia Safe for Now

A plan announced in February to slash the amount of produce flown from the U.S. to commissaries in Asia and instead source all produce locally has been put on hold for now, commissary officials said. Early this year Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) officials...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 5:01 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, commissary

YDU: Graduate School Grant for Military Spouses?

Why didn’t you tell me there was a graduate school grant for military spouses? As a teenager, I believed you had to be extremely smart or wealthy to attend a college or university. I was neither, so I never planned for postsecondary education. Yet...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Career & Education

New TAPS Education Program for Bereaved Families

Ashlynne Haycock was only ten years old when her father Sgt. First Class Jeffrey Haycock was killed in Iraq. But Ashlynne already knew education was important to him. “He made me learn all 50 states and capitols before I started Kindergarten,” Ashlynne...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: SurvivorBUZZ

Will ISIL Panic You into a 21st Century Bomb Shelter?

Sarah, one of our favorite spouse bloggers, wrote us a post about the recent threats from ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) calling for an attack against individual military families. The Army Threat Integration Center (ARCTIC) published a special...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 5:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News

MilSpouse Up for Pillsbury Bake-Off Award

A D.C. based Marine Corps spouse is one of 100 finalists for the annual Pillsburg Bake-Off contest thanks to a handy homemade donut recipe. Megan Beimer, 31, said she has always enjoyed baking as a hobby. So when she married her Marine in 2009, she was...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 10:00 AM by SpouseBUZZ.com

Filed under: Spouse & Family News, Military Lifestyle

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