Every family member is impacted when Mom or Dad takes the pledge to defend our country. From her perspective as the wife of an air force pilot and a mom, Ellie Kay includes practical ideas on how to cope with frequent moves, how to create pre-deployment readiness, and how to stay in touch when families are separated. Filled with real-life stories, this encouraging book provides helpful guidance to families on active duty and insight into their extended families, friends, and churches.
Ellie Kay is the best-selling author of Half-Priced Living and eleven other titles, including A Tip A Day with Ellie Kay and The Debt Diet, with more than 350,000 books sold. She’s a regular television guest on CNBC’s Power Lunch, Fox News, and CNN, and has been the featured family finance expert in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Family Circle, Women’s World, and USA Today. Her financial help columns appear in a dozen periodicals and online, including CBN.com. A popular speaker, she’s Walmart’s official financial help expert, and has served as a consumer educator and official spokesperson for Proctor & Gamble, VisaProvidian, MasterCard, and more. Ellie and her husband, Bob, are the parents of seven children and live in Palmdale, California.