My husband was gone for the better part of a week. Then he came home for 48 hours before departing on his next trip. He came home again for a frenzied 8 hours before saying another good-bye. When he returns from this one, he’ll have a couple of weeks at home before heading out yet again. And when he returns […] Read more…
Surprise, I’m Home!
Have you ever seen that show “Coming Home?” You know, that show that orchestrates surprise reunions with service members and their families. It’s impossible to watch without going through an entire box of Kleenex because the reunions are so romantic, so emotional, so filled with pure happiness, so perfect. But as touching as it is […] Read more…
Top 10 List of My Deployment Behaviors
If you’re anything like me, your life completely changes when your husband is deployed. You follow your own routines, and you develop your own coping mechanisms to try to keep your love alive while simultaneously trying to keep your heart from breaking. We have to do whatever we can to make our lives a little bit easier […] Read more…
On a Trip
Whenever my husband travels, we tell our kids that he’s going “on a trip.” We don’t use acronyms, and we don’t typically use any variation of the word deploy. “On a trip” just sounds so much more innocuous, both to the kids’ ears and my own. Last week, Mr. Roller Coaster went “on a trip.” […] Read more…
