A Better Person

Obi-Wan and I were sitting outside having dinner last night and the conversation drifted to the fact that neither of us can believe he was gone for a year from our house.  It still amazes both of us that he was gone for that long.  At some point, the conversation turned to how I coped [...]

Death is a part of life

I hate that phrase.  While watching Army Wives the other night, an “angel” character said that to one of the women on the show who was grieving over the loss of her daughter.  Immediately, I thought of the sarcastic response to that phrase which I believe some comedian or other famous person said years ago [...]

Epiphanies

Another blogger wrote a great post today about things she has learned about herself while her husband was deployed, and how she is still learning things now that he is back home.  I wanted to write a bit myself on this because these deployments do make us learn what we are made of as well [...]

Turning 35

Yup, I’m confessing.  I’m 34 years old … for one more day.  Tomorrow I turn 35 (AAAAAGGGGGHHH*&^*&(&*).  It hit me this week that I’ll no longer be in that 18-34 marketing demographic, that I’ll no longer be in my “early 30’s”.  Tomorrow I’ll be in my mid 30’s and I’ll be equal to a speed [...]

Enjoying the “now”

After much pontificating on the deeper things in life this past year, I’m really trying to enjoy every day as it comes.  Watching Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” especially, it’s so important to live each day to the fullest because you don’t know what can happen tomorrow.  You can’t put off having fun or enjoying particular things until [...]

Random thoughts

Obi-Wan is out with his friends tonight playing poker and I’m going out for a girls night out - in fact, having a sleepover with the girls.  I have the house to myself for about 90 minutes before leaving to go out.  It’s amazing how after being here by myself for a year and adjusting [...]

Thought-provoking

Someone sent me this link today of an old Red Skelton performance discussing the Pledge of Allegiance back in the 1960’s.  There’s nothing I can say or add to this except “well said.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfz2XDXaeqc

Emotional overload

I just emailed Obi-Wan tonight the following email:
I just watched a news segment on a group of National Guardsmen leaving from this area and I got emotional seeing all the families saying goodbye.  It reminded me of this time last year and how hard that was and everything.  I’m so thankful you are coming home [...]

What I’ve learned

I’ve had some bizarre thoughts lately and I’m going to put them out there for public consumption b/c I’m curious to know if other milspouses have these same thoughts or if I’m just losing my mind.
Obi-Wan is coming home on Friday and I’m really excited of course.  I feel like a weight is being lifted [...]

Reintegration conversation

Obi-Wan and I briefly spoke this afternoon before he was heading off to bed and we talked about him coming home.  I asked him if he felt weird about leaving Iraq and he answered “to be honest, yes.”  He’s ready to get out of dodge, believe me, but he will miss the friends and co-workers [...]