From the Military One Source Website: The Department of Defense is expanding the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts — MyCAA — for military spouses of active duty and activated Guard and Reserve service members worldwide beginning in mid May 2009. In mid May, MyCAA will officially open its doors for eligible military spouses worldwide to [...]
Author Archives: Vivian
It’s our turn to dance
April 28, 2009 – 8:12 am
This is the last full week before Mr. Wonderful deploys again. He’ll be taking one of those new Navy GSAs to Iraq. Since he just got home a scant 2 months ago from being overseas for a year, you can imagine the sense of urgency we had to get things done around the house before [...]
Aloooohhaa!
March 23, 2009 – 8:02 am
Aloha!
Mr. Wonderful and I are in sunny Hawaii right now. We have visited the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor and paid our respects to our brave servicemembers. We have gone underwater in The Atlantis to look at man-made reefs and aquatic life off the coast of Waikiki. We’ve eaten at Duke’s right [...]
Hair today, Hair tomorrow…
March 2, 2009 – 10:44 am
Just got back from getting my hair cut. The last two times, she didn’t even ask if I wanted that straightener thing, just assumed. So, she ironed my hair for me and I had flashbacks of watching “Hairspray” (the original with Ricki Lake) and laughing with my mom when told me she too had “ironed” [...]
Ode to Chick-fil-a. How I doth love thee!
February 5, 2009 – 11:34 am
Being a southern gal you know I am always up for a warm chicken biscuit and sweet tea (yes, for breakfast) from Chick-fil-a. Lunch? Gimme an original chicken sandwich, extra pickles, with some waffle fries…and perhaps an Ice Dream for later. Dinner? Glam it up with a charbroiled number that includes all the fixins. I’ll [...]
National Service Day – Get Involved!
January 5, 2009 – 4:47 pm
With the election over and the holidays giving us a pleasant cozy-feeling buzz (nevermind that mine was achieved with some wine after visiting relatives went to bed), we now have an opportunity to highlight what citizenship means in this country and expand what is expected of us as benefactors of living in this wonderful nation. [...]
Being Picture Perfect
December 30, 2008 – 4:49 pm
I’m totally that girl. The one who gets a boyfriend and drops her friends. Well, kind of. My husband came home from deployment for a short visit and I swear I haven’t blogged, talked on the phone much, or even (gasp!) kept up on Facebook! I remember girls like that in high school – the [...]
Cooking up good relationships
November 24, 2008 – 11:51 am
A lot of the events in my house happen around food. Not at the table necessarily, but definitely around food. If we can’t agree on anything else, everyone in my family loves to eat!
Last night I cooked some of my mother-in-law’s gravy (that is what us Southerners refer to as spaghetti sauce). Since [...]
Fall – Halloween, college football, and colds
October 21, 2008 – 9:01 am
My children are large scale Petri dishes. Seriously. I give them vitamins and orange juice (is that an old wives’ tale that OJ boosts immunity?) in hopes of eschewing most of the small time bugs that plague (how accurate a word, right?) schools, churches, and playgrounds. Still, it seems that no matter what pre-emptive defense I try to [...]
