Deployment is...

• Not getting enough sleep
• Having WAY less laundry to do
• Sleeping diagonally in the bed
• Shivering for 5 minutes in the cold sheets because there is no warm body beside you
• No one telling you to turn the TV off cause it's getting late
• Freedom to have PB&Js for supper
• Doing the dishes every night
• Forgetting what day of the week it is
• Freedom to leave town whenever
• Having to stay home from church if someone is sick
• Not having company as often -cause really, who wants to come "Hang out" (meaning babysit your kids with you) on a Friday night
• The bathroom staying clean longer
• Not getting to be around the person you love most
• Being so very tired each night
• Saying a thousand sentences a day and most of them starting with "No"
• Doing whatever you feel like doing, only you don't feel like doing much
• Being Brave
• Tough
• Long
• Necessary
• Not understood by everyone
• Everyone saying "We want to help" but very few really offering
• A time to grow
• When I feel the strongest and weakest all at the same time
• Hard on kids
• Easy on wallets
• Not having any free time
• The time when the Drive-In is the most fun
• Going to bed at 9:00
• When getting to church is hard, but staying home from free childcare is harder
• Lonely
• Hard even when it's an easy one
• Easier when people come to see you
• When getting sick is absolutely out of the question.
• A free oil change
• Losing weight (who has time to eat?)
• Not having any clothes that fit
• Long nights
• Needing to cry sometimes -just as a stress relief
• Being so proud of my man
• Being so thankful for our country
• Understanding sacrifice
• Knowing that there are many people who are willing to fight for you
• Being thankful for a husband who puts his calling by God (to the military) over his family.
• Knowing how much Mike loves us and misses us
• Wishing I had time to write long love letters to my husband
• A time that makes the four months home so much sweeter
• A blessing