In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m linking up with Jo @ Jo My Gosh and Jessica @ MBB for their Lima. Oscar. Victor. Echo. military love link-up. Mac and I met almost five (!!!) years ago in March of 2009 at a party in college. What seemed like a casual encounter wound up being the…
Mac’s parents left Sunday. That night, we were up in our room. Mac was packing his carry-on bag and getting any last minutes items down before he had to report Monday morning. The sight of his packed bag was too much for me, and I started crying. The proposal Mac asked if I wanted something…
After a few months together, the weekend before Mac deployed was suddenly upon us. We spent weeks shopping for extra gear, packing up his stuff, and dreading the first weekend of December. His parents decided to come down one last time before he left. Mac told me he wanted to buy my Christmas present before…
Mac and I had been dating for about a year, and my college graduation was on the horizon. As I prepared to graduate from college, I began exploring my options. Should I go to graduate school or get a job? Where? Mac and I discussed what we should do. Above all, we wanted to be together….
Mac was enrolled in Army ROTC at Tech when we met. We both went into our relationship knowing that he would commission as a second lieutenant less than two months later. The night before he commissioned, we had a serious talk about about our relationship. We realized our only solution was a long distance relationship….
So after I mentioned our invites, I realized that I haven’t shared the story of how we met. In 2006, I made a decision that would ultimately affect the rest of my life: I decided to attend Virginia Tech. At the beginning of my second semester, I went through sorority recruitment, received a bid, and…