Connecting Kids After a PCS

Oksana Kuzmina/Adobe Stock Connecting Kids After A PCS Ande Flagg Have you ever felt like a nanny should be issued along with your PCS orders?  Or a personal secretary?  Or a machine to duplicate you, so you can watch the kids and do ALL the things that are needed for...

School Choices, Pt.2

Balance Form Creative/Adobe Stock School Choices, Pt. 2 Ande Flagg After reflecting on “School Choices, part 1”, I realized my friend’s advice still echoes in my mind this spring even though we aren’t PCSing. “Every child, every grade, every move,”  she had advised...

School Choices and PCSes

The Flagg boys start homeschooling. School Choices and PCSes Ande Flagg “We pray over each child, each grade, each duty station.” A seasoned Army wife gave me this wise advice when our boys were about five and three. We were faced with what to do for our oldest’s...

Pets and the Military

We adopted two dogs within our first year of marriage. Pets and Military Life Denise Sloan My husband and I adopted two dogs within our first year of marriage. Those two rascals gave us a run for our money. But military life as a pet owner came with a few challenges...