How I Found My Life While OCONUS
You would think that as a woman in her 40s, I would have figured all this out by now. And ...
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A Small-Town Girl, PCSing to an Overseas World
We hadn’t even made it out of the airport, before I realized my Level 17 badge on Duolingo was about ...
What Buys Happiness While Living OCONUS?
See this and more inside the July issue of Military Spouse Magazine! Many dream of living overseas, exploring cultural landmarks ...
Reverse Culture Shock: When America Doesn’t Feel Like Home Anymore
There I was, back on American soil after having lived abroad for almost 4 years as a military spouse. I ...
4 Clutch Ideas for Smooth Sailing on Your Overseas PCS
If you’re wondering why your Exchange is fresh-out of binders and sheet protectors, you don’t need to look any further ...
Inside My Tiny, Tiny German Kitchen
When your kitchen boasts a stove the size of an Easy-Bake oven, and a fridge that would’ve counted as my ...
Fertility Treatment When Stationed Overseas: The Questions You Need to Ask
No one thinks they are going to need help getting pregnant, especially military spouses. Take a look around; we appear ...
How This Spouse Handled Death During Deployment Alone
Living overseas initially is hard, you stay away from family, you have to forge new friendships in another country, and ...
5 Things to Do When You’re Stuck PCSing Overseas
For most of us, living overseas is an amazing experience. There are new foods to try, new places to visit, ...
I Survived Thanksgiving Overseas
It's time to talk turkey - Thanksgiving turkey, that is. This is my first American holiday overseas and I'm a ...
One Milspousepreneur’s Journey from Japan to Jacksonville
Spouse deployed…Mom of small children…Unemployed…Family thousands of miles away. Sound familiar? Most military spouses can easily relate to the above ...
4 Do’s & Don’ts of Living Overseas (Or Anywhere New!)
One evening, nearly 8 years ago, I was at work when I received the call saying we had orders to ...
Real Life vs. Adventure Life: Handling a Special Kind of Overseas Guilt
If you’re lucky enough to be stationed abroad with your family, and are the kind of person who considers getting ...
How to Celebrate Thanksgiving OCONUS Style
It’s nearly that time. Turkey and football and pie, oh my! We all know that here in the states Thanksgiving ...
Paris Attacks Hit Too Close to Home for OCONUS Families
EUROPE -The world watched from afar as terror unfolded in Paris, France on Friday night, but for American military families ...
PCS’ing Without Your Older Children
While stationed in Guam with our young family, I met a couple whose three older children were all back in ...
5 Ways OCONUS is Like A TV Show
In the fall of 2014 my husband and I made our first OCONUS move. Around that time we started watching ...
Top 5 Tips For Living Overseas
Being a newlywed, I had no idea what to expect when my husband was given orders to Italy. At the ...
