Deployment sucks. End of story.
Weeks without a phone call or even a letter.
Hours spend wondering if he is safe, how he is feeling, what he is doing...wondering if that cold he was getting is gone, or did it get worse? You know the normal things.
It is hard. I have tried to find my silver lining in all of this, but some days it just does not happen.
Some days just suck.
Then I find a blog that gets it...
someone who really knows what its like to say good bye for months at a time. Things like, waiting for those precious moments of contact. Cherishing that 10 minute static phone call where all you really understood was him saying "I love you baby" and thats all that really wanted to hear him say anyways. Then I feel better and days that suck don't suck as bad because someone else had an equally sucky day. (Yea apparently I use the word suck...a lot)
He mentioned re-enlisting. Nothing is decided yet, I think its something we need to talk about when we can sit face to face in real life, not on the internet. He was talking about recruiting. We have a decision to be making...
If you have time go here....and here....and here.... I like them.
So the hussy is first. Thats the link to her family blog, and from there you can get to her hilarious video blog. She cracks me up. Her name is actually Jessica, and so in my head that means we become automatic friends. End of story. Not to mention her kids are freakin adorable and Bradley definitely needs play mates...too bad for the whole not living next door thing.
Goodnight moon! Amber. She is keeping this deployment journal to her husband who is currently in Afghanistan. (SO I totally wonder when I hear about so and so's husband being somewhere like Afghanistan if they have met husband...strange?) So, she gets it. I read her entries and think yea...I get it.
Then soldier lady. Her sarcasm impresses me. And I think she hates ed hardy as much as I do if not more.
Either way these women get it.
Right now they are Friends In My Head, but thats good enough for now.
4 comments:
WOW...you just made my head HUGE! Seriously...you know that the Hussy, and Birdie...Michele and I are peeps...right? Well, we are! And we can be your friends:)
I'm glad you like my blog! Your the bomb diggity!!!
Ed Hardy is evil and must be stopped!
My Spouse is currently deployed to Afganistan, and it suuuucks. I would say the first 3 months are the worst. After that it almost becomes your normal. Not a good normal, just an adjusted normal. Blog hugs:)
Hey I just found your blog from another mil spouse blogger. I am a new follower!! Your little one is adorable!
I am glad we can all be friends. I like having friends. Especially fun friends.
First three months are the hardest for me, then the routine kicks in and it because normal, then towards the end its hard again, especially the last months, you feel so close to it being over, but know in reality there is still so much more time. Ugh.
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