Social media became impossible to ignore while living OCONUS. Everything from spouse club invites to base-wide announcements came through Facebook. Arguably even more useful than either of those was the search function — no idea how to navigate Japanese toll roads? Just a quick keyword search on the spouses’ page, and I was road-trip ready thanks to the thorough instructions in the comments. At the end of the day, I would truly trust a military spouse social network over any search engine to answer any question — we don’t call it “the oracle” for nothing, no matter how eye-roll-inducing some of us think that may be.
Finding the Small Joys in PCSing
When looking at the big picture of a PCS, wow there is a lot that makes a move happen! No matter if you’ve done it once or 10 times, PCSing is disruptive …