Last year my son's pee wee football coach suddenly died.
He was young. Funny. Friendly. I loved that he was my son's coach because he seemed to understand my son's often difficult behavioral issues. He was good with the boys. He and his family were adored in our community.
There are some circles in which I am not a military wife.
My children and I participate in an alternative learning cooperative once a week. It’s located 40 minutes from my house and the base my husband’s command deploys from.
I joined this summer, and I teach a journalism class to high school homeschooling students.
My girls take a preschool science lab, art and sensory classes, plus other fun, play-based educational classes.
We love it there.
When my husband retired from the Army, we both hit the job hunt trail.
We each fired resumes to dozens of employers and within weeks had several interviews scheduled.
After my interview at the job that was number one on my wish list, I waited about 48 hours before I received the, “you got it” phone call.
My husband’s first choice job? He waited a week. Then, 10 days. So he emailed the recruiter to see if there was anything else he could provide to help the process.
No, the recruiter assured him. You would be hearing from them within the week.
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Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta.
Most military members and their families can say the military phonetic alphabet just as easily as they can sing the alphabet.
But Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta aren’t just part of the service member’s vocabulary.
They are also names given to service member’s children.
Charlie, meaning “free man,” has been among one of the top 1,000 names for baby girls since 2005, and much longer for baby boys, according to the Social Security Administration
Charlie, though, isn’t exclusively a military name.
One of my dearest friends messaged me in a panic last week. Her daughter is heading to kindergarten.
Should she stay at the private school she loved, but would have to leave at the end of the year for first grade? Should she head into the unknown, public school, first grade? Would she be behind the curve when it came to making friends if she stayed in the private school? What if the kids at the new school didn’t like her?
What if she didn’t like them?
What if?
Kindergarten can be hard. For grownups.
The first time I went to college, my husband was deployed. It was only my three- year-old son and me, and we had our routine down to a fine science. It was difficult at first, but we learned pretty quickly that we had no choice to accept that we needed to make it work.
That year, I maintained a near 4.0 GPA, became a Phi Theta Kappa honor student, and kept a pristine house. Seriously, it was immaculate all the time.
Military spouses are home alone, a lot.
Wouldn't it be nice to have someone walk you home at night while your spouse is away?
A new app created by five students from the University of Michigan does just that.
The Companion app, lets users to request a friend or family member to keep them company virtually and track their journey home via GPS on an online map. The friend or family member can participate even without installing the Companion app, which is available for both Android and iOS.
The summer PCS season has just ended and there’s a good chance many of you moved overseas, or at least some place “foreign” to you.
A move to another country can be overwhelming. The search for a house (or the long wait for one on base) can be daunting, it can takes months for cars and household goods to arrive and trying to keep in touch with family and friends in different time zones can be frustrating.
Even a simple thing like a trip to the grocery store or the gas station can be overwhelming.
Twice now, I have seen the future of job seeking, and I don’t like it.
The first time, we were in a big box store. A 20-something gal was toting a screaming child in a stroller. She was stretched out across the customer service counter top, attempting to fill out the store’s application while the baby attempted to drive her nuts. He was winning.
The applicant hushed the child, grumbled at the child and emphasized to the screaming toddler that, “Can’t you see Mommy is getting a job?” I’m guessing he only understood that he was tired, and that was the end of his interests.
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