How Eating Together Improves Nourishment & Connection
Between working late, kids activities, and other obligations, a packed family schedule may mean less time to sit down and have a meal together. For military families, that time to sit down together can be further disrupted by TDYs, deployments, swing shifts, and irregular schedules. It’s no wonder why one of the top issues affecting…
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Sleep Number® and Kansas City Chiefs Join Together to Welcome Retired Army Family with a New Bed for Their Forever Home
Meet Neil, a retired Armor Officer in the Army, father of three, and dedicated husband. He served 21 years including five deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom and has lived across the country from Texas to Hawaii. He is most excited about the final stop in his family’s journey in Kansas City, where his family recently…
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PRIDE in Network: How One Spouse Found His Again
As a successful New Zealand diplomat of 14 years, David was a well-traveled and established professional. He’d been through several overseas tours to places like Indonesia, Chile, and finally, Hawaii, where he met his future spouse, John, an Army Chief Warrant Officer 2. “My career as a diplomat was promising and on an upward trajectory,”…
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Spending too much on your military family’s vision needs? This can help!
Did you know you could save hundreds of dollars on your military family’s vision needs (including all those pairs of glasses) by getting supplemental vision care? Because supplemental vision care is a relatively new option for military families, there are still many questions. So we called our friends from Blue Cross Blue Shield FEP Vision,…
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Moving with the military? Know this one thing!
It’s a well-known fact that you’re no stranger to moving as a military family. In fact, you could probably consider yourself a moving “expert” thanks to new orders every couple of years. While most of us understand the basics of a move — our stuff gets boxed, moved, we unpack, organize, and more — some…
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Get the Most Out of the School Year: Advice From a Military Teen
As a military family, we often get lost in the sauce when preparing for our kids’ school year. We do the shopping, sign the papers, confirm bus routes, enroll kids at the last minute for reasons that come with our lifestyle, and the list goes on. This year, I took a different approach to keep…
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Air Force Family Receives Sleep Number® Smart Bed & Surprise Visit from Superstar Cam Akers
For Jacob, a crew chief and aerospace maintenance apprentice (say that ten times fast) in the Air Force, hard work and a positive outlook come naturally. As a relatively new Airman, he has worked tirelessly to improve the productivity and morale of his squadron. But what’s most impressive is how his infectious attitude carries home…
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Being Authentic: Growing Connections Between More Families of Color with Transparency in the National Capital Region
Metropolitan Washington, D.C. has grown steadily to become more diverse, especially between 2010 and 2020. Today, more than half of the region’s residents identify as non-white. For an area ranked as one of the most diverse places to live in the U.S., it should come as a surprise that military families of color still feel…
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En route to a new duty station? Protect yourself!
Did you know? Nearly one-third of the military, and their families, are en route to a new duty station right now and are at risk of their sensitive data getting stolen by someone they know. Protect yourself As you shuffle around, beware that your personal info is more accessible to movers, family members, dumpster divers,…
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