Normally I don’t post video of my kids but when my daughter started singing this song a few weeks ago I just had to share.

She was born while her Daddy was deployed to Iraq…

I missed a week of the Military Monday carnival…and hopefully haven’t completely lost the momentum we were building!

I’m sure you will forgive me once you hear about the drill gremlins, kissing cousins of the deployment gremlins.

We’ve looked at military family life from the active duty and National Guard perspectives. And there are definitely pros and cons to each…

Casey, who blogs at The Ever-Changing Life of a Military Wife, shares with us how she keeps balance when life is a moving target.

What topics do you write about on your blog?

I’m a mish mash of teaching, travel, politics, pouting, military life, and my never ending love for Texas. If it happens in my life, it goes on the blog! I try to keep it “real” rather than branded. While I have much respect for the niche blogs, I view my blog as a diary rather than a website. So, when you come, expect the unexpected!

A reader asks:

My husband hasn’t signed any papers yet but will be enlisting in the Army very soon. I am trying to be the supportive wife because I know this is something he’s always wanted to do, but I am scared for him and myself. Here is the problem: I am not going to be following him to wherever he gets stationed.

I know we can make it work but I am worried about being alone all the time…

Is it common for the wives not to follow their husbands?

Lorrie Nichols, who blogs at The Journal of an Army Wife, answered our questions about her life as an Army Wife…

Like a surprising number of military families, we own more than one house.  No, I’m not talking a lakeside summer retreat or a getaway at some tony ski resort.  We have the home where we live now, and the house we purchased when we were stationed in Texas.
When it was time to ETS, there was not much of a market.  Base reorganization and frequent deployments meant that people were more interested in renting than in buying.  Since then, the housing market has completely tanked, making selling even more difficult.
Renting out …

Whether you are moving to a new country, an isolated posting, or your servicemember is deploying, I advise you to “grow where you are planted”.

Get involved, get busy. Or, as Tim Gunn says, “make it work”.

Reach out to other military spouses. Find deployment support groups, try the FRG, volunteer on post. Most posts have a community center where you will find postings for groups, classes, seminars and events.

Hey Molly my husband is looking into a career In the army, I don’t like the idea because he will never be home and could always be deployed and could die. I am 19 he is 26 years old and we have a 5 month old daughter I didn’t not sign up to be a military wife I don’t like the idea of moving every other year and not being able to see him everyday and then spending long time periods away from him I guess my question is what is being a military spouse really like….

So, in a study that will shock (sarcasm) anyone actually involved with the military…the Heritage Foundation has pointed out that our service members are actually more or less representative of the population in terms of education and family wealth (via Freakonomics Blog on the NYT). This is not news, as it supports prior studies that revealed the same information.
The Northeast is underrepresented, but most enlisted service members hail from middle class neighborhoods and are more likely to have achieved a higher level of education than their civilian counterparts.
So, while …