The 2020 Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) rates have been released! The first day the BAH rates are released the online BAH calculator tends to get overwhelmed and crashes. Inquiring minds all want to know, “Did my rate increase?” or “What is the BAH at our next duty station?”
A story of the struggles of a military spouse during deployment and finding the grace to persevere.
Approximately two million military children have experienced a parental deployment since 2001. While deployment is a shared reality for military children, the experience is very individual for each child. Helping children with deployment is a big job for the parent who remains at home.
In the midst of it all I discovered three imperatives to thriving during our deployment time apart that have helped me: setting a routine, knowing what fulfills me, and asking for help.
You can travel in conjunction with your spouse when they go on remote tours and most especially on a TDY. This temporary duty assignment can sometimes be to some pretty amazing places like Hawai’i, Japan or Orlando! With this in mind, there are some things to consider when visiting your spouse while they are on TDY or a remote tour.
“I should write a book about that!” This was the thought I had on one of our many road trips last summer. I don’t know about you but I do my best thinking in the car! This thought was triggered by the idea that a move was on the horizon for our family. It wasn’t…
Taking a road trip or traveling with your kids can be really challenging. I always suggest having a packing list and making sure you are prepared well in advance before your journey. The military provides a unique opportunity for military families to travel both CONUS and OCONUS. Personally, we’ve taken advantage of bad duty stations…
This week we stumbled across an article about astronauts reading storybooks from the International Space Station. Knowing how much my youngest loves all things space we had to check it out. Story Time From Space did not disappoint!
It is almost shocking how quickly my school pickup parent questioning jumped to “What did you learn at school today?” It was as if it was a preprogrammed question in my mom brain. Every parent wants to raise a kind kid. I am no different. While I am interested in what my children are learning…
Being a military spouse requires persevering through loneliness, enduring times of high stress, and having great patience. To be honest, these things don’t come naturally to most of us. That is why I am so thankful that Bernadette Soler reached out to our Military With Kids community with a free offer for her yoga e-book…