I’m a small town girl. I don’t mean that in the casual, “yeah my town only has one mall” kind of small town. I mean that we didn’t even...

After almost nine full weeks, the McKenzie family is no longer homeless. We are settling into our apartment on post, and we could not be...

Ok so, here’s the real real: I’ve been homesick. The time difference is hard. I’m accustomed to being able to call my mom as soon as I...

Twenty-nine hours awake, twenty-one hours of travel, thirteen hours of flight, two mad dashes through airports, a forgotten diaper bag,...

When I was a child, I didn’t fully appreciate everything that my mother did for me. I couldn’t. I had yet to experience the sacrifice of...

When we found out we were PCSing to Germany, one of my first thoughts was my dogs. Marvel (75-pound, rambunctious, four-year-old boxer)...

Every seasoned military spouse simultaneously dreads and anxiously awaits those three little words: “We’ve got orders.” Those three words...

Okay so not really. I'm not going to do an exposé on my own family, right? Or am I? I kid. Guys, I can't do the cutesy names. I can't...