Two Weeks Down....

We are two weeks into DH's deployment as of Tuesday. So far it doesn't seem to be too bad actually. It seems like it's going by pretty quickly. I think part of that is the fact that he didn't have 2 months’ worth of training before hand and had to leave straight from there this time around. He only had the 3 weeks’ worth of training and he got to come home for almost a month before he left again.

This deployment will only be about 26 weeks total, which most AF deployments are. I know that it's going to seem really long by the time it's over but I still think that it's going to feel much shorter than the last one.

Another reason it feels like it's going by so fast is because I'm not constantly worrying about something happening to him. He is in the Middle East at the moment but he's in a country that's relatively stable and has a tolerant leader so there's a considerably smaller threat level. I feel a lot better about him being there than I did about him being in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, DH likes jobs where he's being put to his full potential and he feels like he's being underutilized in a job where he stands at a gate and checks I.D.'s all day. At home he's a cop so he's used to doing things a little more high speed than gate checks.

For his future deployments he wants go places like Afghanistan. I fully support him in everything he does. I know that this is going to be one of those things that really sucks for me. It’s definitely going to be kind of a struggle because I worry so much. Eventually I’ll be home by myself taking care of the house, the dogs, the bills, the yard, and the kids on top of worrying about him like crazy. But this is the life I signed up for and I wouldn’t trade DH for something easier.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. Thanks for reading : )

And So It Begins

DH has finally started his deployment. He left on the 15th and finally made it to Qatar after over 40 hours of planes and airports with no sleep. I already miss him like crazy but it's only 6 months.

I'm hoping that this deployment will go by fast. We're planning on buying a house when he gets home and I'm super excited to find one. Really I'm just ready for the deployment to be over, the house to be bought and settled in to, the new truck to be bought, the dogs to be bought, and for everything to stop being so hectic.

The past month has been so hectic. I've been working nonstop, we had Christmas and New Year's, then we moved out of our apartment and back to my parents' house, had to pack and unpack and then repack most of his stuff, and then also pack for his deployment. I'm ready to get back to a normal work schedule and get settled finally. Then of course once he gets back we have to move to the new house and probably in a little over a year or so we'll be moving to a different state and a new base and doing everything over again. I guess that's what I signed up for, though.