Still Around
Well life is in full swing and its been one thing after another this year. A lot not so great and other stuff has been absolutely wonderful. Where to begin…
I last posted in January, not to long after that post my family suffered a great loss. My 86-year-old grandmother had a massive stroke. She lingered on earth for 11 days and passed peacefully with her loving caregivers at her side. It was probably one of the hardest drawn out experiences of my life thus far. I’ll write more about this, enough time has passed that I think I can write about it and not completely break down.
A few months later my dear husband CJ got in some big trouble over a training accident at work. I won’t go a lot into this other than to say his punishment involved a demotion and lots and lots of extra duty for what felt like forever! A few weeks into this so-called punishment my paternal grandfather died suddenly. I did not know him all that well and was sad because of this fact alone. People that lived near him on his lake property knew him better than his own family.
In July wr went on a much needed family vacation to Maui. We had so much fun!!! On the last day of our Maui trip CJ and I both got tattoos. I got a flower with some green leaves on my foot (Ouch). CJ got a tribal looking black and red gecko on the back of his calf. I will post pictures of this later when I find my lovely camera cord! As soon as we got back from Maui as in within hours we headed to eastern Oregon to visit family. Ten hours after arriving home we were in a whole different state with more family. I rode my first Harley with my father in-law Mikie at my first every bike rally. Really fun weekend. Note to self though, do not get a tatoo when you know that keeping it clean while camping is almost impossible.
A few days after getting home CJ leaves this cryptic message on my cell phone while I’m at work. I had an idea of what he was going to say. I called home and of course he told me he would talk to me when I got home. As I am driving home that wonderful feeling every Army wife knows crept into my heart, dread. I walked in the door and marched up the stairs to hear the news CJ had to share with me. Yep you probably already guessed it another up coming deployment. CJ won’t even be home for Christmas this year and our so-called plans for starting a family have been put on hold. More on this later.
Now I sit in a coffee shop writing this post because CJ is on a month-long training mission down to California to the National Training Center. I am trying my darndest to gear myself up mentally for this next deployment. If you read back he’s only been back from Iraq for just over a year. I thought I had another year before he’d be gone again. Its hard not to think about the fact that at the end of this deployment I will have spent more time apart from him than I have with him. We will not be there for each others 30th birthdays and have spent another anniversary apart. But that is the life of an army wife in a time of war. We need these awful wars to end.
Green Eyed Girl
