08/20/2022
Deployment 🇺🇸
The days leading up to your spouse leaving are some of the most emotional days you’ll ever live through. It’s a roller coaster & if you haven’t lived it there’s truly no way to understand what it feels like. It’s exhausting and it hurts, badly.
You put on a strong face because you don’t have a choice in this.. you just have to do. The first few weeks are the worst, that a long with news of extensions or going days with out any contact. Then you get into a routine, a routine where you feel almost a degree of numbness to how much you miss your other half. You love your babies with all your heart & throw every piece of you into them. You have Daddy dolls or in our case Daddy books full of photos and stories to tell. You find a purpose in being the primary support system & handling all the details no matter how hard some days are. You just get up and “do” - every single day.
One. Day. Closer.
Finally - after months of living separate lives you get the best words - “I’m coming home!” Every emotion you can experience hits you all at once. It’s not over though.. it’s days of flight changes, arrival changes.. and a whole bunch of other details that are sure to keep you on a ledge right until the end.
Then it happens.
What makes every day leading up to this moment so worth it. You and your babies see your person. Not from a picture or on the other side of a FaceTime call… but in person. Your hearts racing, you’re on the verge of tears & THIS is your moment.
The embrace.. the first hug, the first kiss.
FINALLY. They’re back in your arms. SAFE & exactly where they are meant to be.
Deployment is hard. Military life is hard. This part though, this part is beautiful. The strongest relationships I know. A love built to withstand all things & it’s these moments I choose to relish in ♥️
