Military Life

They are home! I am so happy to say that Maintenance Troop 3cr RSS is home from deployment! This means my husband is home!!!! Man what a short deployment. I obviously didn't meet my 1000 mile goal by the time they all came home simply because it turned out to ...
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Care package sign up sites are plentiful. Did you know there are several places you can sign up to receive care packages or sign up your loved one to receive care packages while they are deployed? Also, check out care package themes if you plan on making your own to ...
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Well, it is now official, we are homeowners! We are so glad that this part is over with and we can now just concentrate on moving. I will say that the home buying process for us was actually smooth. And the best advice I can give anyone who plans on ...
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All the tedious work of buying a house has passed...thankfully! We are now just waiting to close on our house. At this point, you would think stress would be gone. But it's not. It won't be gone until we close and officially own the house! In the meantime, I am ...
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I just got back from 10 days of being gone to Texas. The entire purpose of the trip was to buy a house. Unfortunately  Jerry couldn't go since his Fire 1 class has not finished yet. However, my Mom did go with me which was awesome! It's been several decades since ...
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FREE PCS BINDER TEMPLATE DOWNLOADS LOCATED AT END OF POST!! Ah, you have received PCS orders. For many, they are happy to receive them so they can get the heck out of Dodge. Others wish they had never arrived. Either way, you have them and chaos is soon to follow ...
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I am happy to say that we now have found a Realtor! I will be leaving for Texas around March 8th so I can find us a house. I knew that I needed to find a Realtor soon, so she or he would have enough time to gather our needs ...
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Q. How do I go about getting support for my children from my spouse that is active duty? We are not divorced! So I've been a military spouse going on 5 years now yet we have been separated for almost a year. He recently received orders to San Antonio but I stayed in ...
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Military Families there is a new Commissary Rewards Card! Couponing is the latest trend in saving money, it even has TV shows about it. Have you ever seen one of those shows? Couponing can be time-consuming. I have tried it a few times but it never lasts. I hate going out ...
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Finding the area to live in when you PCS can be so nerve-racking! So we have been pre-approved for a home loan. Now we need to decide what area to live in around Fort Hood. Our first instinct was Harker Heights or Copperas Cove. But as we have thought more about it, ...
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Latest on the PCS Blog: Report Date Moved! Our report date has been moved up by 20 days! That means that instead of leaving here August 1st, we will be leaving here around July 10th! In addition to that my husband started his Fire 1 class last night and found ...
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Step 1 in finding a house, get pre-approved! So we are roughly 5-6 months away from our final PCS. I had planned on waiting another 2 months (when I had time to pay down a debt) before trying to get us pre-approved for a home loan. But the stress of ...
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Q. I have a question about Liberty pass, Can US Army personnel get them and do they cost thousands of Dollars to buy one? I have been receiving emails for someone supposedly on deployment in Korea, and he's asked myself for 4700 Dollars to pay for his Liberty pass for 3 months to come ...
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It's that time again! Yes, folks it is PCS time again! We came down on orders (finally) in November. The report date was set for the end of October (we weren't happy about them being so far out), so hubby put in a request for early reporting and as of ...
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I am going to spend the year pulling out my hair! OK, well I hope I don't pull out my hair, but I just realized how extremely busy we will be this year. Why? Well for starters we received PCS orders with a report date at the end of the ...
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