Another Journey

Today my husband is starting another journey in his military career, he's taking fights across the country and tomorrow he'll board an Air Force chartered flight to South Korea. Luckily, he'll be accompanied by a few of his buddies, and hopefully he'll be stationed with at least one of them, there's a handful of Army bases in South Korea and the soldiers don't find out which base they'll be stationed at until about a week after they've arrived in South Korea.

It's hard to believe how only about two and a half years ago he fought in Afghanistan for 12 months, then he was back home with us for 17 months, and now he's headed to South Korea for 12-14 months. Obviously, it's not easy for the family that remains behind, but we do what we can in order to support our loved ones. Our children seem to be handling this transition pretty well, of course there were tears as they hugged and saw their father off, but all in all they seem pretty calm, which makes this mama happy. Even our fur-babies keep walking around in the house searching for their "dad". For example, when we arrived home from the airport they were super excited to see us, as they always are, but they kept going to the back door as though they were waiting for him to walk in.

Today the weather isn't helping my emotions much...this gloomy and rainy weather is almost an exact image as to how I'm feeling inside. I very much dislike the fact that my husband is not able to be home with us to celebrate birthdays and holidays, and it doesn't help any with two major holidays just around the corner along with three birthdays and our anniversary, but the children and I are living back in our hometown, so it does make those difficult days a little bit easier to handle.