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Take Care of Your Family While on that Hike
Sign In at the TrailheadMost military families are active! They do not sit at home and whether they explore the local area or visit a county/state/national park they can find themselves challenged in new and different ways. Avoiding injuries or illness while staying active can take some planning and thought. During a recent trip I hiked in the Adirondack National Park/ New York State Forest and it was certainly a great time. But I did take a few precautions based on where I was going and what I knew about the area. So a bit of intelligence gathering about the location of a hike can be critical. Do you…
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Active Living in the US Navy Even Has an IPhone App! DoD Blogger Roundtable
“They have an IPhone App for their program…” Spring seems to be a great time to get started on new workout plans, healthier eating, gardens and more! May is even designated as physical fitness and sports month so it was great timing for the DoD Blogger Roundtable to discuss the US Navy Operational Fitness and Fueling System and some new and better ways to help stay healthy! As a long time advocate for a healthy lifestyle I was very interested in the topic but wanted to make sure that it would be interesting for our followers. Diana Strock, Physical Fitness and Injury Prevention Program Manager said they had “resounding feedback”…
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Getting Ready to Garden! How to Build a Fence and Gate for Your Garden
Primary Tools for putting in the fence postsEnter into these Gates with Thanksgiving Our gardens during our years of PCS after PCS, overseas, deployments and lengthy TDYs etc. were small and mostly flowers. After retirement we settled in Michigan and focused on a vegetable garden in addition to the flower beds. We live in deer country – and rabbits, raccoons, chipmunks and more critters that love our garden too. So we upgraded our garden fence this year! It was a good improvement and allowed us to hope for less damage from those lettuce loving animals. Our first step was planning over the winter as we took down the previous metal pole…
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Taking Advantage of a Military Discount > Wordless Wednesday
Taking advantage of the Disney World Military Discounts! Do you find Military Discounts for your theme park visits, vacations, day to day living helpful? Keep up with national and local offers on MilitaryAvenue.com and Military Discounts Facebook page! Join Us byColonel KonWednesday, March 20, 2013Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to PinterestMilitary Life:Col K,Military Discounts,Staying Healthy,vacation
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Your Heart and that Energy Drink
Too much of a “good thing” I bought myself a tray of bakery cookies at the grocery store the other day under the guise that they were ‘peanut free’ so my 2 year old (with major confirmed allergies) could enjoy them while the rest of us dined on a nut-cake I bought for a group of friends. Here’s the problem. I have no self-control. And I’ve been eating the cookies. all. week. I stepped on the scale last night and Wowzers… I know who was eating the cookies. The point… one cookie? No problem. Two cookies? eh. Three cookies? Not healthy! So how about those Energy Drinks you are consuming? Nutritionist Explains…
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Youth Sports are Important for Parents too!
“As parents, we often think of youth sports as organized events. I think the more important ones, may be the unorganized variety.” Summer time is here and it is, as usual, crazy busy! Throw in a PCS or deployment for you and it is just gets worse. Finding time for all the unit events, saying good bye a million times (or at least a few) to good friends or acquaintances, making friends at your new location, finding time for a vacation, finding a new spouse job – yep, the head starts to spin a bit! But what about the smaller people version? They go through a lot as military brats…
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Where Do You Find Your Release?
Healthy LivingStress FightingBlood Pressure LoweringCalorie BurningMood LiftingSweat InducingHeart beat RaisingSmile CreatingLaughter Making Hewitt Independent Shaklee Distributor, a MilitaryAvenue Partner, wants to keep your family healthy, too. Tell us how you keep your military-kids smiling when it is easy to feel down? How do you raise your own spirits when things just aren’t going your way? How do you get your familys mind off of the negative and back to the positive? We will draw a random winner on Friday, April 27th from all the comments. The winner will receive a free container of Bavarian Cocoa Meal Shake courtesy of Susan Hewitt. You must leave an email address in your comment for us to contact…
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Tips, Tricks, and Photos from Pinterest
A few of my favorite tips, tricks and photos for the week: Images of our US Military and Families: Source: Uploaded by user via MilitaryAvenue.com on PinterestPets are family, too April – Month of the Military Child: Source: militaryblog.militaryavenue.com via MilitaryAvenue.com on PinterestThere are SO many words that can describe a Military-Child. Resilient is the word that pops in to my head, first and foremost. Other great descriptions: Loyal – Adaptable – Strong – Supportive – Compassionate – Empowered Military Family Financial Readiness: Source: soc.li via MilitaryAvenue.com on PinterestAmazing budgeting worksheet from wholeliving.com. I especially like the ‘Save to Spend’ section which encourages saving for ‘fun money’, ‘household projects’ &…
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For the Health of It
I just ran across a video that I had to share with you. It is about 9 minutes long but it is going to suck you in. Go ahead watch it. I’ll be right here waiting: Wow! Half an hour of walking a day has all that health-benefit?! This isn’t really rocket-science, folks. In fact, to make it personal I struggled with gestational diabetes while pregnant with my youngest son. The food didn’t impact my sugar-levels as much as the exercise. It was all about getting up and burning the sugar. If I didn’t get up and /move/ around every couple of hours (notice I didn’t say lace up my running shoes, put on…
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Drink More … Feel Better
It was a rough start to our Christmas Break. The night before the final day of school and my first-grader was thinking of a school field trip in the morning and a class-party in the afternoon. What a fun day it was going to be. He had a rough cough for the past week but I just knew it would go away. Eventually. As we were settling into our bedtime routine that Thursday night *C* lost it. Vomit, vomit, vomit. Gross, gross gross. He spiked a fever and I knew he was down for the count. That cough stayed with him for another week. Cough medicine didn’t touch it and I was…
