It has been scientifically proven that it's harder to make friend as an 30-something adult than it is when you're younger, say 18-28. Why is that? 

Well, I think by that time you've pretty much established where you're going to live, work, and you've found your circle. Well, in a normal world that is... In the military world, I think things are a bit different, sometimes it's harder to make friends and then again sometimes it's the easiest thing in the world. 

Right now, I'm on…

2013 AT&T National Military Ticket Information The Tiger Woods Foundation, in cooperation with the OSD/JS Welfare and Recreation Association, will once again be distributing free tickets to military personnel this year for the AT&T National.

Tickets will be available at designated ITT/ITR offices within a 150-mile radius of Washington, D.C. Ticket Information: Tickets will be available to all DOD personnel, including Coast Guard (active duty, reserve, retired, National Guard,…

Migration season has begun!

It happens every year at this time – the annual migration of hatch-lings back to the nest after their time away for college or…

     Belated Military Spouse Appreciation Day greetings to all of my fellow military spouses. You hold down the fort, you’re the ‘behind the scenes’ pillars of strength, and you’re the often unheralded conductor of the symphony of your family’s military voyage.

     Sadly, my ‘symphony’ is often wildly out of tune. I often feel like Mozart toward the end of the movie ‘Amadeus’ when he takes on the conductor’s role, but grows ever more weary as the performance goes on, and finally…

I could hear cadence being sung near the parking lot at Ft. Sill’s Reynolds Army Community Hospital in Lawton, OK. My husband was in the Marine Corps at the time, but he was assigned to an Army base for training. I was in labor with our first child and like many first time mothers; I arrived at the hospital in early…

Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day fellow travelers on the journey through military life! 

Today you’ll get to hear a lot about how special you are. You’ll…

Hello Everyone! I'm Lori and this is my first blog with DCMIlitaryFamilyLife.com! I'm thrilled to be here and I look forward to getting to know everyone. :-)

So we just PCS'd from Bahrain all the way to the wonderful state of Maryland and the DC area! I love it so much here already and I see nothing but good things happening during our time in the area.

Being that we just PCS'd to the DC area, I'd like to share with you a few tips that helped me get through the craziness of of…

1. The health insurance is very good.

Tricare offers two plans to choose from--Prime or Standard. The benefit of Prime is that you don't pay anything out of pocket--but you must go to your appointments at base medical (or at least go there first in order to get a referral somewhere else). The benefit of Standard is that you can see any doctor who accepts Tricare Standard and don't need to go on base at all (in military towns, most practices accept Tricare). However, you will be a…