Military Families – Attention Please!

While at the MSOY Town Hall at the beginning of the month (I know- lots to catch up on, working on that), Moni Jefferson (AMSE Agency) said the following words “Just post the thing. Just post it.” I wrote that down. And so here I am, just posting the thing…

I’ve been quietly working on something behind the scenes for a while now; a dream initially I had several years back that I’m now actually starting to build out and work through. That dream relates to how we support and connect with community during transition periods (specifically PCS transitions). 

It’s still in progress, so I’m just quietly working in the background, but I wanted to continue that work by listening (especially to spouses and families at other installations or in other branches). I created a short survey to better understand what people are wanting, experiencing, needing, or missing during those transition times. 

All my fellow military families and spouses (or if you’re not, but you’re friends with one please send this to them)…PLEASE consider spending 5-10 minutes of your time sharing your thoughts/experiences/hopes on this survey. Then PLEASE share it with your own community and with your friends. This is a public post- simply click share and ask. This survey is completely anonymous and will feed into and shape a much larger framework to hopefully create some change. 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! 

Survey link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2ICRfBJoNIAWwD-DEs60tSNzw8lfw1gPF3tXef0DqYPiAVw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

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Hello from Alaska

Hello! I’m not even going to begin this post with a sorry or an explanation or anything of the sort. Life got hectic and as I’ve said, as much as I love the blog, it’s the first to go. 

Some updates- we now live in Alaska! We made the drive from El Paso, TX to Fairbanks, AK over 11 days in July. It was a long, beautiful drive that we are very happy to have behind us. I’ll throw some pictures up here so you can see some of what we saw and enjoyed about the drive. (If you’re interested in a whole post of our trip and our itinerary, I’d be happy to do that- just let me know! The below pictures or only a fraction of what we have)

We are in our new house, though living minimally while we are still waiting for our things to be delivered (though hopefully once you’re reading this, we will be in the thick of boxes and figuring things out). I can’t wait to share some of our spaces- I’ve got big plans for this home!

We’re slowly starting to settle into our new community- I’m taking a role within our local spouse’s club, have already dropped in to the USO, and have the next school PTO meeting on my calendar. I do plan on joining the workforce in some capacity during our time here, but finding the right fit will be key as my husband will be back in his normal job world and things will ramp up on his end once again. 

As far as upcoming posts, I actually have a surprising amount of travel posts from the past year to still write up and post- so those will be going up. A lot of travel, some home/lifestyle, and then once our home is set up, I’ll be sharing some bits from there (the library of course). Next week I’ll have my reading update from both June and July. 

We’re really looking forward to this chapter- Alaska already feels so much like home for us. 

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