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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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You know a deployment is over when ...
you start to shave your legs again.
~ you notice that babies start to outnumber the number of soldiers on base
~ you have to give back the debit card
~ it takes 2 hours to get onto base and you live 5 minutes away
~ you actually start going to bed before 2am...(but not necessarily getting any more sleep!)
~ your driving privledges have been instantaneously revoked
~ you use more than just the microwave in the kitchen
~ you trip over boots left in the middle of the hall
~ the laundry load triples!
~ your king size bed suddenly feels small
~ you haven't watched Lifetime TV or Oxygen in over a week
~ you are eating a full course dinner everynight
~ your grocery bill triples(or quadruples), but you find yourself replacing batteries a lot less
~you can't find the remote
~you don't have to check the window and door locks 80 times before you go to bed
~ pumping your own gas is a past-time
~ the sound of the doorbell doesn't produce a nauseating feeling
~ the cell phone is no longer a vital accessory
~ there are strange-smelling cammies and PTs in your laundry room and you are THANKFUL for that
~ the TV seems to be stuck on either ESPN or ESPN News
~the garage suddenly becomes a place for social gatherings
~ it is no longer necessary to buy stamps in bulk, or stand in line to ask if the post office has anymore flat rate boxes
~ fitting as much as possible into one of the flat rate boxes is no longer a weekly challenge
~ missing a phone call is no longer the cause of a mild myocardial infarction
~ is it not so scary to see a strange car in your driveway when you get home from work
~ 2 words... birth control (You know it baby!)
~ the closet you finally got cleared out is once again in a shambles and have lost the floor to his gear.
~ you keep finding clothes on the bedroom floor that you know you didnt put there
~ you go to make the bed and there is someone else in it
~ by some miracle the oil in your car has been changed
~ the alarm has suddenly been readjusted to 3am
~ you don't eat leftovers anymore because there are none
~ you neglect some phone calls, because you're actually busy
~ you start watching NFL today again even if you hate it, because what could be better, he's home!
~ pjs, what?
~computers are no longer a lifeline
~ the postmaster no longer recognizes you by name
~ your answering machines no longer say "If this is _______ I love you!!!
~ when the phone rings at 2am, you know it's not for you! (screw that! Our phones will be turned off at 10pm!!!)
~ when you stop taking cold showers because it helps the frustration and start taking cold showers because someone used all the hot water
~ suddenly you have little hairs all over your sink
~ when you stop buying groceries with instructions such as "Heat on high for 90 seconds and stir"
~ you have to check and make sure the toilet seat is down when you get up to pee in the middle of the night
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