Thanks again, everyone
We're still doing well. We're going out to dinner and a movie date tonight, and I get to pick the restaurant so I can get an on-plan meal (mmm...Applebees grilled shrimp skewers with double veggies!). He also made me dinner last night and had weighed and measured everything to figure out the calories. Yummy marinated steak with beets and steamed veggies/potatos.
And deployment is VERY hard. Missing them and living without them for a whole year is just half the story, really. The news shows these happy reunions in airports where everyone hugs and it's all romantic and stuff. And it is, but there's a lot more to it. A year is a long time to be apart with only a phone call or email every few days. Even though you still love each other immensely, you have to fall in love all over again and get to know each other. It's a very confusing swirl of emotions. Not to mention that when you are missing somebody for a year, you kind of formulate this glossy perfect memory of them with all their great qualities that you miss the most. Your brain tends to erase the fact that he leaves the door open so he can keep watching the game while he's pooping and never puts water in his dirty dishes and he's grumpy in the morning.
And carlyjordan, mine so gets in soldier mode too! Sometimes when gets home from work or gets off the phone with one of his guys or even if we're just working on getting something done he slips into the Captain mentality. His tone of voice, body language, etc changes, lol. Sometimes it offends me, but usually when he's barking out orders I just have to giggle and say "roger, sir" or tell him to buzz off.
Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that I'm a soon-to-be Army wife. Deployments, among other things, are a bummer but I'm quite confident that I'm up for the challenges
He's worth it....and it helps that he's so handsome in his uniform, haha.
