Deployed? No, But It Feels Like It

Today my husband left to go back to Ky. and left me wondering when is our life going to be normal again?
It has literally been years since I have felt like things are normal. Deployed? No, but it sure does feel like it.

Before he got stationed at Ft. Campbell he was a Senior Drill Instructor at Ft. Benning and let me just tell you a Drill Sergeant is never ever home unless there's no Joe's to train and there's always Joe's to train. He worked seven days a week from 3:00 a.m till he got home at 10:00 p.m and sometimes not at all depending on the training phase, but at least we got to live together.

Then came a promotion and a new duty station...He left I didn't follow. Why? Because we thought he was going to retire so we bought a house, we have two kids in high school that he wanted to stabilize for their last few years of school and too many pets. So off he went and here I stayed and six months later he was deployed to Afghanistan.

The deployment was hard, it was lonely and on occasion it was down right terrifying, but now he's back and everyone that was deployed is back with their families readjusting to life, getting on with life but here we are still apart and nine more months to go...it still feels like a deployment to me....it's still hard, it's still lonely and I'm still wondering how I'm going to do it without screaming TIME OUT I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!

No, it's not deployment but it sure still feels like it.

Wasn't there a house here?

OH MY GOSH!!!! We got home at 5 this morning and I was scared to get out of the car....I kid you not!!!
There could have been all sorts of creatures lurking to ambush us on the way to the front door the grass was that high! I think the only way we even made it to the front door was because the 18 yr old son that we left in charge of the place left a light on and then was kind enough to come out to help lead us through the jungle that was once my yard. And did you know my house use to have a front porch? Well technically it's still there but it's been invaded and conquered by wild morning glory's, and as I found out this morning my back porch didn't fare any better. We won't discuss the condition of the inside of the house. But let it be said I got lots and lots to do. At this very moment Top is outside waging an epic battle between us and mother nature...I hope we win.
     
     



Ok not sure how all this blog stuff works or even if i'll like it, but I felt inspired by a fellow blogger so I thought why not.
 Today my husband is taking me back home....sigh....yep he's stationed in KY and we have a home in Alabama. The living apart really stinks. He just got back from deployment to Afghanistan in April and me and  our two girls spent the summer up here in Kentucky, it was fun but I got used to living with him again and now i've gotta get used to living without him again...for at least nine more months.
  But at the moment i'm sitting in his home away from home home waiting for him to get here so we can pack up and carry on. He was supposed to be here already. They had a Change of Command Ceremony today but the new guy taking over insisted they had to do PT after the ceremony was over...pt is physical training and what this New Guy doesn't get is IT IS HOT OUTSIDE!!!!

Married To The Top

Top that's what some Soldiers in the Army call my husband. My husband is a 1SG in the United States Army and out of his almost 23 years of service I have been a part of 19 of those years. And i'm very proud but it can be crazy at the top of the NCO totem pole...