Just a quick though...

When I was growing up, I imagined being married! I knew I would be married to a wonderful man, we would both have great careers and that was the extent of my thinking... I never imagined that I would be an Army wife, and that my career would be that of a stay at home mom and wife, and that we would be in wars with other countries. I never thought that I would spend days, weeks, months apart from my spouse and he from our family.... I never imagined that I would be as happy as I am right one. My husband in another country, but still happy and loved and blessed as ever... I never knew I was made to be an Army wife until I became one!

God bless

P.S. If you are reading this, keep your chin up. The only way to get through this in one piece is to stop thinking so much, relax, think about the future, and know that your spouse is doing a great job, a job that only 1% of people are doing...

Time...

How is it that time can fly by quickly and at the same time it slows down and feels like it is going too slow? I feel like this a lot since Matthew has been gone. It was been 12.5 weeks now. Some days, that feels like a great accomplishment, but other days I feel like we are barely anywhere with it!

These past 5 days are a blur, I hardly remember the small details, but when I hear from him everyday, they seem to go more slowly, and of course they seem to go slowly when I don't get to talk to him either, until it is over and I see him online!

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference". This helps me get through when I am feeling down. I know that he will be home again before I know it, just some days I feel like it will never come and others I feel like it will be here in a drop.

God Bless