3 down, 7 to go

This Thursday we'll be 12 weeks into this deployment. Meaning we are down 3 months! That's a pretty exciting milestone! That means in 2 more months we'll be over the hump and half way through deployment.

Eric will be moving to Africa to finish his deployment this Summer. Once he gets there we'll talk less. I'm sure that will be hard at first but I know having to count down days until I talk to him will help time to go by faster because I'll be looking forward to something.

It's funny how little milestones really help. Like counting down until Conner's Birthday, then mine, and then Eric's. Then we'll have our Anniversary in September and then we'll count down to Halloween. Then Thanksgiving and finally December will be homecoming month! I can't wait to be standing there with Conner and our 'Welcome home' sign in hand. We'll be making ours special for Eric. I plan on putting a picture or two on there from when he was home. I can't wait to make it! The last one I made was so awesome and fun to make. I'll have to dig up a picture one day and post it because it was awesome!

Conner and I are hanging in there. Conner woke up this morning missing Daddy a lot. He wanted to take his "Daddy Bear" with him. He calls it Dada because it's cami and has a message in his arm from Daddy. We love and miss him so much.

A lot of people can't deal with separation and often it pulls people apart. Amazingly this deployment has shown me how much I love him, and need him forever. No deployment will ever break us, it just brings us closer together. I love him more now, then I ever thought possible and that love just continues to grow with each passing day. They always say 'Distance make the heart grow fonder'. I believe that saying more now then ever. It's completely true for us. This kind of thing isn't for everyone, and not every couple makes it out of deployment together. But when I said 'I do' that meant that I do stand by you forever. Through the hard times and bad. Through deployments and homeports. We'll make it through anything, because we'll be doing it together. We love and miss you Eric!

A poem

Military Wives Prayer

At night when I crawl into bed,
My lonely pillow 'neath my head,
I close my eyes and say a prayer.
"God keep him safe way over there,
And make me strong so I won't cry.

It's kinda hard to be alone and
teach the kids when they're half grown,
without the strength of a father's hand
to guide them in this troubled land.

So I'll need a little help from you,
to let me know what I should do.
And God please will you let him know,
How much we love and miss him so.

And then I feel across the bed,
To where he used to lay his head,
and I close my eyes so very tight,
so I won't cry again tonight,
and whisper to the evening air,
"Good night my darling way over there."