3 Tips to Work Your Small Business On the Go
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Navy Federal Credit Union. All opinions are 100% mine. I don’t even want to think about how many times I pick up my phone a day. It’s a lot. But it’s something that has become a habit because I run two businesses and a […]
4 Ways to Teach Kids About Service and Sacrifice
This post is sponsored by Wounded Warrior Project. All work and opinions are my own. When I was a high school teacher, I learned two very important things: Kids are absolutely able to have hard discussions (and want to!). Adults often underestimate kids’ capacities to talk about the tough stuff (often because we don’t want […]
What I Wish I Had During My Husband’s Deployment
Updated 2021 When John was deployed to Afghanistan, I had NO clue what I was doing. No one had ever prepared me for what it was like to be engaged to someone who now lived in a war zone for the next year. Normally, a year of engagement would have been filled with excitement. But […]
5 Unexpected Care Package Gifts to Surprise Your Recipient
This post includes products from AU-Rate through Nakturnal, Green Beans, and Honey for Healing. All work is my own. If you’ve got a long-term deployment or a kiddo that you’re sending lots of care packages to over a long period of time, it can feel like you’ve run out of ideas for what to actually […]
If You’re a Milspouse Entrepreneur, This Program Is Free
This is NOT a sponsored post. Let’s be honest: the military spouse community (and the rest of the online community at large) is awash in “experts” and “resources” when it comes to owning your own business. There are tons of organizations and people who specifically focus on the challenges and experience of owning your own […]
Politically Active? You’re Not Alone, Milspouse
by Kate Marsh Lord Does it feel like everything and everyone is suddenly political? That our once politics-free bubble of the military has been pierced so strongly that is it now wide open and laid bare for everyone to see? Heck, even the names of some military bases are at the center of a politically-charged […]
Here’s How to Send Free Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee to Someone Who’s Deployed
Over the past years, I’ve been lucky to have some corporate help when sending care package supplies. You can read my story about how Panera was amazing! John received a huge box of tuna while he was in Afghanistan, too. When I was sending to a friend abroad, Chick-Fil-A gave me a bag full of […]
The Money Talk: Military Couples, Finances, and Figuring It All Out
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Navy Federal Credit Union. All opinions are 100% mine. I wasn’t going to marry John if he had credit card debt. That’s the truth. I told him that I’d wait for him as long as he needed to pay it off. The credit card […]
Silence Is Complicity
I started writing Jo, My Gosh! in 2012 as a teacher in Baltimore. It started out as a care package blog and bloomed into something I never imagined. People who don’t look like me, don’t worship like me, and don’t have the same experiences that I do are part of the Jo, My Gosh! community– […]
How Can I Safely Send Food in the Mail?
Is there anything more lovely than eating food that has been made by someone who loves you, for you? And food can transport us to different times in our lives, with people we love and care about; it can remind us of stories and fond memories; it can make us feel like we’re home, even […]
