Redeployment, the official term for soldiers returning home, is a time of crazy emotions. On the one hand, you’re incredibly relieved and happy your soldier is home. On the other hand, you’ve spent their entire deployment coping with their absence and your carefully planned world is thrown upside down. Mac’s first redeployment was a learning experience….
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Movies you shouldn’t watch when your husband’s deployed
I’ve been plowing through my Netflix queue and finally watching some “must-see” movies. A few months back, “Saving Private Ryan” found its way to my mailbox, and I was excited to watch it. While it is a fantastic movie, it’s not the ideal choice for the wife of a deployed soldier. Obviously, it’s a war…
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Homecoming, round 2
If y’all didn’t see my post at 4 am yesterday, Mac is home! He wound up coming home a week early in his year-long tour. His flight was originally supposed to arrive around 8 pm. They were delayed in Germany because of weather (during the delay, the child sitting next to him made her self literally…
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I’m looking forward to
Our very first home that we’ll be in alone together for more than 6 months. Cooking in my own kitchen. Painting walls and decorating a whole house. Having my husband home every day. Unpacking boxes for the first time in over a year. Annoying my husband with stupid Internet videos when he’s trying to sleep….
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Confessions of a deployed soldier’s wife
1. I eat cereal for a shameful number of meals. 2. Sometimes I email my husband at 1 am because I’m awake and I know he’s at work and will see it. 3. I know 17 women who have gestated and birthed a human since Mac left. 4. I think deployments are easier if you have…
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Homecoming jealousy
Over the past month, several of my friends’ husbands (around 6) have come home from deployment. One was gone about 10 months (he left the same week as Mac), and the other was gone a grand total of six weeks. Six weeks. Obviously, each soldier has a different role to play in the overall mission,…