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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER GELORMINE When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was given a magnet for my refrigerator. It was a list of ways to promote self-esteem in a military child, and at the time I thought, “Well, this is silly. I’m having a baby, not a child.” Those of you who are parents [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY AMY BERMUDEZ Amy’s time in Germany is coming to an end. She and her husband are getting ready to PCS back to the States. Amy is sharing her experience in a series of articles. If you haven’t read it already, take a look at her first two posts in the series. Keep checking back [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY AMY BERMUDEZ Amy’s time in Germany is coming to an end. She and her husband are getting ready to PCS back to the States. Amy will be sharing her experience in a series of articles. Keep checking back as she continues on her journey! What do you do when you find yourself within [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE To the Dandelions, Being a child in the military family can be rough! Not too many other families give up Mom, Dad, or both, for days, weeks, or even months so they can keep America safe. No too many other kids have all their cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents on a [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY AMY BERMUDEZ Amy’s New Home I recently let the cat out of the bag about being homesick. (Moving is hard!) My friends were there for support and helpful suggestions! I wanted to compile some of the great advice they gave and offer some of my own take-aways: I got lots of suggestions to [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA AND HEATHER GELORMINE A few weeks before PCSing back to the States last spring, Heather and I got to talking about our financial situation. Turns out we were both experiencing a bit of panic about money & PCSing. We collaborated on this post and thought this might be good for those [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA We’ve still got a year to go, but recently my husband received an email from his supervisor saying he should start looking at “the list.” And as I got to thinking about my friends who are PCSing this summer, some STILL without knowing where they are going, I realized there are [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY HEATHER GELORMINE A decade ago I was a brand new Army wife.  My husband and I married two weeks before I began my senior year of college; I returned to live in my school’s dorm which was located two hundred miles away from the nearest military installation, and he shipped off to attend [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA I kept her from seeing her midwife. While she was in labor. Course, it was my midwife too, and we were just chatting about when my overdue baby was ever going to arrive. When I finally left her office and went down to the waiting room to meet my husband, this [...]

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Contributed by Joelle Yamada This is our third overseas tour, so we are very accustomed to the long anticipated and long lasting family visits to our neck of the woods. These visits happen once a year, once a tour, or once in a lifetime for many of our guests. My parents got their first passports [...]

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