Recess is supposed to be fun, a time to laugh and play with friends. Most days were like this. But on occasion, there were a few boys that taunted me. They would say my shirt was ugly or call me “Bucky” due to a pretty severe overbite. I’d retort back in a sing-song way with “Sticks and stones may break…
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Moving away from home, family, and friends can invoke… Panic! Fear! Anxiety! Worry! These emotions wreak havoc with the thought of moving away from the people you care about and love. It is possibly the only place you’ve known all or most of your life! That is just plain S.C.A.R.Y to be perfectly honest…wide eyed scary at that! I’ve been…
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Wouldn’t it be great to have peace of mind when your service member is deployed and Murphy’s Law visits? An emergency fund can change a crisis into a manageable situation. Military pay is a steady paycheck. So you are probably wondering why in the world you would need to have an emergency fund. Why would you stockpile money back when…
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I’m not your typical military spouse. What is typical anyway? Can there be a “typical” military spouse? I believe we are all unique and have our own love stories that take many different paths. When it comes to our love story you’ll find it seems a little unusual. You see, it’s not every day you have someone who gets married,…
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I was always asking what things meant or what the military acronyms stood for when I first became a part of the military circles as a girlfriend. Sometimes I felt as though I was the only one who didn’t know what everyone else was saying. Which in turn made me not want to even ask anymore because I was embarrassed….
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