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If you're not in love with a soldier, you don't know what it's like to say that final good-bye. You don't know what it really means to be glued to the television. You don't understand fear and you can't possibly understand the sleepless nights of endless crying wondering if you will ever see the love of your life alive again.
If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't know the immense joy, the uncontrollable smile, or the butterflies in your stomach when you see your soldier march into the family waiting area upon redeployment. You can't understand the self-control it takes to stand on the other side of the room as some higher-up gives a seemingly endless welcome home speech while all the soldiers stand in formation. You don't know what it's like to have that second first kiss or what it's like to experience puppy love all over.
If you're not in love with a soldier, you can't truly understand how to make every moment count because you never know when that phone call may come again.
If you're not in love with a soldier, you can never really understand how very delicate life is!
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Today marks day 279 that my husband has been deployed to Iraq. With less than 90 days to go I am feeling all the emotions that come with deployment and re-deployment. He left on my birthday last year which sucked. To make matters worse, we couldnt see him off that night, because I had morning sickness and was puking up everything except the baby itself. My daughter and I did go to the base and spent a few hours with him until he sent me home. I was so sick that HE couldn't take it anymore lol. It was BAD. What a day to be sick right! Fortunately, he was able to be home for the birth of our second daughter. She was born the day before his birthday and he left for Iraq the day after his birthday. My toddler took him leaving after R&R pretty well. We have been married for 6 years and he has been gone for a little over 3 of those years. We are pretty much used to him being gone a lot. Being an army wife takes a lot out of an individual. When you marry you don't realize that even though you are married you are a single parent for the most part a lot of the time. It takes a lot out of you. What are your experiences as an army spouse? Have you had to deal with a deployment?
