My husbands away for a couple of week for his pre deployment training, so Dylan and I have been spending some quality mommy son time. Not that we never do that..but now we dont have a choice. As much as I am currently trying to ignore the child in front of me covered in blueberry sauce and waving a limp piece of toast in my face, i'm grateful for this trial period. Its incredibly hard to be away from my husband, because we do have an amazing relationship and I love him more than anything. But its giving us a chance to see how its going to be without him around.
God has blessed Dylan and I with some amazing friends and opportunites here, and I dont think he will let us fall just because Chad has to go away sometimes. At first I thought that him having to leave every couple of years would be a reason to get out of the military as soon as possible, but now I'm learning that its not. Some of the strongest families out there are military families. Dont get me wrong some of the most broken families are in the military too, but I think that has more to do with them and their own issues, not the military. And I realized exactly how lucky we are. Even though it doesnt pay all the money in the world and we sometimes have to seperate, we get to live in different places around the world- and most of them we get to choose. I dont have to work and can spend all my time with my son, and I wont have to worry about education or insurance.
From moving here I've learned that even some of your closest friends will forget to keep in touch, and even though its hard leaving at first, it gets easier, because we get to meet new people everywhere we go. And these people will stay friends forever because they are used to picking up and leaving. They have the same lifestyle that you do, and you get to walk away before your friendship dies.
