JOURNAL columnist Clare Macnaughton is a finalist in the Innovate Brit Mums Brilliance in Blogging Award.

Mcnaughton started her blog, amodernmilitarymother.com in 2009 to help explain life in the forces from the inside, writing about her own experiences of a decade of marriage to a man who serves in the military. The winner of the award will be announced at Brit Mums Live at The Brewery in London on June 21.