Categories
Travel United States

What’s Outside the Land of the Free?

Traveling If you are a wanderer like me you probably day-dream of what’s just outside the country’s border. Or you may have a long list of places to visit like mine! Being a military family, we cannot always travel when we want to, or even where we want to at certain times. With that being […]

Categories
Travel United States

Passports

Traveling Ever wanted to travel outside the united states but think it’s too hard to get approved? Or maybe you can’t find affordable places to go to? Or maybe you just don’t even know where to book. You may not even have your passports yet! Today we will talk about passports. Other traveling information and […]

Categories
Beauty and Health Haircare

Curly Girl

Let’s Talk Curly So yesterday I had a dentist appointment and decided to get my hair cut before it. I have an amazing Russian hairdresser who knows what she’s doing with my hair. She is located in the Spanish Village in Downton San Clemente. However, I will say my hair got cut shorter than expected!!!! […]

Categories
Military Related

Brace Face

Tricare and Braces! Many spouses who are under the age of 23 can qualify for up to $1,750 to cover braces from Tricare Insurance. If you are above the age of 23 sorry, but you no longer qualify and would have to pay out-of-pocket. However, I do have a cheaper way for those who are […]

Categories
Dates and Adventures

Cheap + Free Date Nights

What can we do? Ever need a date night, or even want a date night but can’t figure out what to do because you can’t afford a night out. Think again there’s plenty of options out there and a ton of options available for military families! My life Let me explain something. As time went […]

Categories
College

Broke Military Spouse

Want to go Back? Spending time around other military spouses a lot have asked me what I do for a living and where my job is.  Well the answer is nothing, I always tell them.  At the moment I am back to being a full-time student.  Many military spouses always say College is too expensive, […]

Categories
Military Related

Two Secrets to a PCS Move

What Do I Do? I recall in my lifetime moving so far nine times. seven of those times were as an adult. Only two of those moves were a PCS move.  If there is one thing to hate about moving it is the packing.  Packing up your home is very time-consuming. When you get new […]

Categories
Financial Military Related

Life on a Budget for a Military Family:

The Budgeting Life: Ever since I was a child I have always saved my money.  My mom would ask where I got so much money when I wanted to buy something. Well, it came from underneath my bed. I would stuff all my money under it until I absolutely knew what I wanted. I remember […]

Categories
Military Related

Deployments

Luckily it was not a crazy hour in the morning, instead it was mid afternoon. But that does not mean we did not start the day off early, after all we did have a lot of stuff we needed to still get done before he left. My husband is awake. I am half awake but […]