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Cool Family Tips

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I just read a blog post that was really cool on tips for Military Families and thought I’d share. Staying connected is so important and it can be difficult at times to find better ways to keep that connection when there is so much distance separating you. Do you have any favorite tips you’d like to [...]

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How to have a Date on a Budget

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Everyone should own a picnic basket.  I know what you’re thinking… just one more thing to move every two to four years that I’ll never use, but hear me out on this one.  When my spouse comes back from deployments, his mind is still on the desert, themission, the troops or whatever else the military [...]

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Lean on Me

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There may be no crying in baseball, but in life as a military spouse, sometimes it can feel like there’s not even an option to acknowledge a difficult or seemingly unfair situation.  I remember finding myself alone in a remote rural town, surrounded by dairies with a fly problem and regular 80 mile per hour [...]

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Military Spouse Jobs|She Works Hard for the Money

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Military Spouse Jobs Statistics
The unemployment rate has finally dropped to 9.5%  according to Google’s public data !  Wonderful news for the country but for Military spouse jobs unemployment rate is three times that of their civilian counterparts. The causes are many; employers don’t want to hire a military spouse who is likely to move in 2-4 years, [...]

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Help! I Need Somebody

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Life as a military spouse can be complicated. From moving every couple years to learning all the acronyms, there’s a lot of adjustment for the typical civilian. One of the most difficult aspects to adjust to is the irregular absence of the active duty member. With TDYs (and what does the “Y” [...]

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