( I added Jono’s Dog Tag to my necklace Cheesy I know but we’re cheesy!)
So my application for this deployment has been what can I learn through this and what is God trying to teach me about life through this deployment. So I always have to look at this as a positive insight. Like I have told many people this is a Blessing. Sounds crazy Jon even had to ask what did you say like you should be going crazy and freaking out not saying this is a blessing. For him to hear that is amazing because he knows we are fine and he can do his job over there.
So back to this being a blessing… I feel that I have been given the strength that has equipped me for this deployment. I have been given Love of an amazing husband who would sacrifice his life for Brinn and I. I have an amazing daughter to keep me going and busy all the time. I have amazing family that always is there for me if I’m throwing my guts up or just need a whine wine night
I have friends constantly praying and asking how Jon is. One of the most amazing things I have learned from all this is what I call Sisterhood…
I have met some of the most amazing women in the whole world. I have met a woman who skyped her husband in Afghanistan while she was giving birth to her first child. I have met women that are on their fourth deployment. I have met women who have three kids and are parenting them all alone. I have met women who are completely lost and just need a friend. I have met women who are waiting just for them to return so they can have their first child. I have met women who have lost and loved and are now trying to move on. I have met women who have sent their little boys. I have met women who have sent their brothers.
All of these women have one thing in common… Sisterhood. Just like the men we are together in this. We are here fighting for them to come home. Sending packages and pictures and anything that can give them a glimpse of life without them. We are getting together and hanging out to give strength to each other. We are having Christmas party’s and girls nights to keep busy and not think about the weeks to come and the danger that our men are in. We all have our own little pieces of strength and we each give a piece away to another. Even when I;m with just one of these girls I feel the energy. We lift each other up when we are down. We hug each other when our husband isn’t there to. All of us know too well that our husbands go to bed tired and lonely and wake up tired and lonely.
“These women keep fighting for their family as a whole even when they feel a dread every time they turn on the news, every time they turn on the computer, every time their phone rings, and worst of all every time their doorbell rings. Everyone of these events which might mean another score of a football game, or a weather forecast, or the UPS man, or my mom calling… might mean the news that the man they love, the man they have chosen for better or for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, is now parted from them forever.” Seems crazy but this thought doesn’t cease to cross one of their minds.
These women will never be on the cover of people magazine, or on TV but they are the support behind our men, and what keep our men going when they are in the worst place imaginable. They are the glue that holds the platoons and battalions together.
I’m so thankful for the amazing thousands and millions of army wives and women who have sacrificed and now can give me the wisdom and grace that they found through their deployments. I just wanted to write about how much support we have from everyone and it’s truly so uplifting to know each day when you wake up someone’s got your back. Like a sisterhood. I would do anything for anyone of those girls and I know they would do the same for me.
So my application for this deployment has been what can I learn through this and what is God trying to teach me about life through this deployment. So I always have to look at this as a positive insight. Like I have told many people this is a Blessing. Sounds crazy Jon even had to ask what did you say like you should be going crazy and freaking out not saying this is a blessing. For him to hear that is amazing because he knows we are fine and he can do his job over there.
So back to this being a blessing… I feel that I have been given the strength that has equipped me for this deployment. I have been given Love of an amazing husband who would sacrifice his life for Brinn and I. I have an amazing daughter to keep me going and busy all the time. I have amazing family that always is there for me if I’m throwing my guts up or just need a whine wine night
I have friends constantly praying and asking how Jon is. One of the most amazing things I have learned from all this is what I call Sisterhood…I have met some of the most amazing women in the whole world. I have met a woman who skyped her husband in Afghanistan while she was giving birth to her first child. I have met women that are on their fourth deployment. I have met women who have three kids and are parenting them all alone. I have met women who are completely lost and just need a friend. I have met women who are waiting just for them to return so they can have their first child. I have met women who have lost and loved and are now trying to move on. I have met women who have sent their little boys. I have met women who have sent their brothers.
All of these women have one thing in common… Sisterhood. Just like the men we are together in this. We are here fighting for them to come home. Sending packages and pictures and anything that can give them a glimpse of life without them. We are getting together and hanging out to give strength to each other. We are having Christmas party’s and girls nights to keep busy and not think about the weeks to come and the danger that our men are in. We all have our own little pieces of strength and we each give a piece away to another. Even when I;m with just one of these girls I feel the energy. We lift each other up when we are down. We hug each other when our husband isn’t there to. All of us know too well that our husbands go to bed tired and lonely and wake up tired and lonely.
“These women keep fighting for their family as a whole even when they feel a dread every time they turn on the news, every time they turn on the computer, every time their phone rings, and worst of all every time their doorbell rings. Everyone of these events which might mean another score of a football game, or a weather forecast, or the UPS man, or my mom calling… might mean the news that the man they love, the man they have chosen for better or for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, is now parted from them forever.” Seems crazy but this thought doesn’t cease to cross one of their minds.
These women will never be on the cover of people magazine, or on TV but they are the support behind our men, and what keep our men going when they are in the worst place imaginable. They are the glue that holds the platoons and battalions together.
I’m so thankful for the amazing thousands and millions of army wives and women who have sacrificed and now can give me the wisdom and grace that they found through their deployments. I just wanted to write about how much support we have from everyone and it’s truly so uplifting to know each day when you wake up someone’s got your back. Like a sisterhood. I would do anything for anyone of those girls and I know they would do the same for me.
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