Every family member is impacted when Mom or Dad takes the pledge to defend our country. From her perspective as a wife of an air force pilot and a mom, Ellie Kay includes practical ideas on how to cope with frequent moves, 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 to 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 Wal-mart’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.