By Jaimi EricksonGuest Blogger October is a month that really stirs up memories from the start of my marriage. Back when we were newlyweds, still in college, and could live life on a whim, October was the time when we could take a pause. We got into the fall groove,...
By Amanda HuffmanGuest Blogger Fall’s typical crisp weather and changing leaves barely exist where my family currently lives. Southern California seems devoid of seasons. We really feel it, since our last assignment in Virginia gave us all four seasons with such...
By Jaimi EricksonGuest Blogger It felt like a personal failure. Looking at my daughter’s academic assessment at the end of the year made me feel like I had failed as a parent. I want my children to find and use their strengths, but there is so much that they have to...
By Amanda HuffmanGuest Blogger Moving creates so many different areas of stress — one of these areas of stress can be getting settled into a new school. Depending on PCS cycles and how quickly you arrive and find a home before a new school year begins, it can be...
By Jaimi EricksonGuest Blogger I signed up my children for all the sports thinking my active-duty spouse was going to be home. He was in a non-deployable billet — so we were told. There was going to be no long-distance travel on the agenda. Well, as a seasoned...
By Amanda HuffmanGuest Blogger When I first became a parent, I expected that when my kids turned five, I would send them to a traditional kindergarten at the public school in our neighborhood. There are a few things I have noticed in the past few years. And one of the...
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