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Practicing Math Skills At The Mall With My Little Diva
I have a little Fashionista in my family. We call her Fashion Diva Girl, and she loves all things FASHION. We’ve been working on math skills, and I needed a fun, cool way to get her thinking on her toes. So, I came up with combining her love of shopping with math. Finding new and fun ways to practice math skills will keep your little one interested in learning.
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Listen To Your Kids-They Do Know Best (Sometimes)
If you’re like me you do not believe kids know best about their lives. They are still young, learning and need guidance. Well, sometimes kids DO know best. We don’t always want to listen to them, but we must admit when they are correct. It’s Spring Break, and I wanted to hit the Island for some fun in the sun. My lovely children have other plans. They just want to lounge around the house ALL week. They don’t want to do much at all; they just want to stretch out on the couch and watch T.V. every day.
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Finding My People
If you live in the same place for years, you may or may not understand this story, but I gotta share it anyway. I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that we are a Navy family, this means we move every couple of years. Besides the stress of moving, there’s the stress of just having your circle of friends. Making friends as a military wife is stressful and can be a wild ride.
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A Parent’s Guide to Which Spiders Are Dangerous
I was looking after my two nieces about a month ago while their parents went out on date night. We were innocently dressing up their dolls when a grotesque spider came scurrying out from under the clothes bin. Just as I always do when I see a spider, I screamed and jumped over to stand on the couch.
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Join This Simple Self-Care Challenge
Do you rip and run like a maniac most days? I see you shaking your head and laughing. It’s ok, most people do. For some reason, we feel we must always be busy from sun up to sun down. No! Stop it! Stop it RIGHT NOW! Being “busy” doesn’t win you any kind of award. Let’s learn to take a moment for ourselves. You know, self-care. Hmmmm….. or do you ask, “what is self-care?”
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Teaching Good Habits To Your Kids
Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. After all, you’re responsible for making sure that a little slice of the next generation is going to grow up into a stable, balanced person. No pressure! However, parenting is also one of the most fulfilling jobs that a person can have. Seeing children grow into the people that they will become is a wonderful experience. For this reason, it is important to make sure that our kids are developing the habits that will make them better people, later in life. This means instilling these traits in them while they are young. Here are some tips on how…
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My Favorite Grocery App That Helps Me Save
A few years ago I refused to use coupons or any phone saving apps during grocery shopping; that all changed after moving to Japan. We shopped at the commissary, but I still needed to find ways to cut our expenses a bit. This gal started using her grocery savings app and coupons.
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Dancing The Night Away
The Navy Supply Corps celebrated their 222nd birthday this year. It was a fantastic night dancing the night away with my sailor. We are currently stationed in Hawaii, still, brand new to the island and learning all the cool and beautiful things about it. Last weekend, hubby and I attended the Supply Corps Ball and had a blast.
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Things A Non Military Spouse Do Not See
Before I became a Military Spouse (Navy wife), I didn’t know, understand, nor care about anything dealing with our military. I respected and supported the sailors, soldiers, airmen, marines and coast guards, but their lives were not in the forefront of my life. And oh, I REALLY DIDN’T get the spouse. Because I mean, she is sitting at home chilling with her family and friends while her significant other is deployed to the middle of the ocean, flying overhead or out in the field. And what the heck does deployed mean anyway? Yes, I was that nonmilitary spouse (although, as I type this I realize I wasn’t a spouse of…
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Flexible Careers For Military Spouses: By SpouseLink
Finding a flexible and portable career is one of the greatest challenges to military spouse employment. Unpredictable servicemember work hours and long deployments place military spouses in a single parent role that often makes a traditional 9-to-5 job impossible. Other hurdles for traditional jobs come from relocating to remote or overseas duty stations where language barriers, legal issues, and geography create local employment challenges. Yet, with all these challenges, there are employment options that enable military spouses to pursue careers that are compatible with the highly unpredictable, unstable, and mobile reality of today’s military families.
