Maria Reed has been a military spouse for 17 years. Prior to that she was in the television industry. She was a director and a producer before meeting her husband. Military families have to move a lot, and there is a lot of work involved and a lot of uncertainty. Deployment is another big issue for military families when one spouse is left at home to take care of everything by themselves.

One Christmas, Maria was watching home improvement shows on TV. She thought that something seemed a little off and tha