There Is No One Way to MilSpouse

There Is No One Way to MilSpouse

By Jaimi EricksonContributing Writer Sixteen years ago, sitting in a room of Marines and their spouses, I was energized to be the ideal military spouse. I had a family member tell me, “You are going to be a great military spouse because you like being a mother hen and...
Military Spouse Retirement Lessons Learned

Military Spouse Retirement Lessons Learned

By Jaimi EricksonContributing Writer Now that my husband and I are knee-deep into the retirement process, I realize that we should have started retirement planning a few years ago. While it’s too late for me to go back and change our retirement timeline, I am...
How to Stick to Resolutions in the New Year

How to Stick to Resolutions in the New Year

By Amanda HuffmanContributing Writer How often have you made a resolution at the beginning of a new year only to have given it up by the middle of January? Giving up on resolutions isn’t surprising. It’s really hard to form a new habit and even harder to break an old...
Handling a Non-Typical Deployment

Handling a Non-Typical Deployment

By Jaimi EricksonGuest Blogger It was a scenario out of a movie, or one that felt like it anyway. We had just moved to a new base when our first baby was six weeks old. It was our first home on a military installation and I was excited to lean into the military spouse...

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