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*sends hugs and warm, fuzzy thoughts* I’m sorry to hear his tour is so long. I hope he stays safe!
We are here for you if you need to chat or vent or view bug porn! I don’t know where Nirvanacat gets all her pictures but she seems to have an endless supply. It would be something to talk about with the other wives “well, actually I’ve gotten hooked on (bug) porn since he’s left!”
We would love to hear any updates.
Ah, sorry you have to be parted with your hubby for such a long time, pegasi1978. Especially while caring for a young child. Currently, my father is deployed over seas in Kosovo on combat duty. I’ve witnessed how hard this has been on my own mother. I wish you and your son all the best during this time. I’m glad you will keep us posted 🙂
pegasi1978 wrote:I got an email from my husband a little while ago letting me know he made it to Germany safe and sound. He asked that I “let everyone know I’m doing alright.” Hopefully I’ll get to hear from him again soon and I’ll pass along updates as I get them.
Please do. I’m glad he made it that far all right.
Yahoo! I just got to talk to him on the phone for a few minutes (and I got an email from him just before the phone call). It was so good hearing his voice. I got home just a few minutes before the phone rang too. Talk about good timing.
He says: Well, I’m down in Kuwait now. It’s hot and I’m a little tired.
Oh and he says “Ooo. Pretty!!” about the finished labradorite griffin.
I am glad you got to talk to him. You have more strength then I have. I could never live with someone who was gone for that long. It would drive me nuts.
you get used to it, phone conversations help. but pegasi has it worse, not only is he away, he is not always safe. 🙁
I’m glad he got there safe, Pegasi. I’m so sorry you have to go through that 🙁 This Friday I will know just how you feel…my love of 3 years is leaving early Friday morning for Korea for one year. After he comes home, he will be in North Carolina for a year, and then Japan for the final year of his service. 🙁 We had never been more than 50 miles apart until he joined…then it was 1200 miles…soon it will be a few time zones. 🙁 The past year we’d been able to see eachother every other month. I may be lucky to see him once at Christmas while he’s gone 🙁
I know it must be a lot harder for you though since the two of you are married and living in the same house; his belongings and his scent is everywhere. But on the bright side, you have your son to distract you, and too, you have the best support group ever-all of us! If there is ever anything I can do to help, don’t hesitate to ask. Think of it this way too…if there was ever anything you wanted to do in the past, but couldn’t, maybe this is your time to be independent and quasi selfish with your time 🙂 It will fly by before you know it!
WolfenMachine wrote:I’m glad he got there safe, Pegasi. I’m so sorry you have to go through that 🙁 This Friday I will know just how you feel…my love of 3 years is leaving early Friday morning for Korea for one year. After he comes home, he will be in North Carolina for a year, and then Japan for the final year of his service. 🙁 We had never been more than 50 miles apart until he joined…then it was 1200 miles…soon it will be a few time zones. 🙁 The past year we’d been able to see each other every other month. I may be lucky to see him once at Christmas while he’s gone 🙁
I know it must be a lot harder for you though since the two of you are married and living in the same house; his belongings and his scent is everywhere. But on the bright side, you have your son to distract you, and too, you have the best support group ever-all of us! If there is ever anything I can do to help, don’t hesitate to ask. Think of it this way too…if there was ever anything you wanted to do in the past, but couldn’t, maybe this is your time to be independent and quasi selfish with your time 🙂 It will fly by before you know it!
Oh wow Wolfen what you are about to go through doesn’t sound fun either. Hopefully he will come home safe and sound. Only getting to see each other once a year is no fun.
It seems like my husband and I have done the long-distance relationship since we started dating (lived 212 miles apart), we got engaged while he was stationed in Germany 2 years for his first assignment. Then we actually got to spend a year together after we got married and he got stationed here just as 3ID came home. He hasn’t been in the house much in the last few months because he’s been having to do all the last minute training for the deployment. I miss the sound of him in the house though, and the way he would play with our son. Since we couldn’t stay to see Daddy get on the bus he still doesn’t quite know what’s going on.
Gavin is a great distraction. I just wish there were more activities available for 2 year olds in my area. Other than the play group we go to twice a week there really isn’t much here. Everything is geared towards 6 and up, even swimming lessons!
This group is definately a great support group. So many people with such big hearts. Oh and if you need anything while your love is gone let me know if I can help!
I have a very bad habit of not doing things for myself. I just don’t think about it. I try to do what I can for Gavin and forget about making me happy most of the time. I wouldn’t even know where to begin trying to figure out something to do and then actually doing it … scary.
ddvm wrote:What type of books do you like to read?
Oh boy where to begin with the list. Mostly I go for Scifi/Fantasy books, especially the series. Here’s a list of the biggest series or authors on the “fiction” bookshelves. We have another shelf that holds oddball books like some artbooks, philosophy, martial arts, et cetera.
Adept/Xanth – Piers Anthony
Women of the Otherworld – Kelly Armstrong
Dresden Files – Jim Butcher
Sonja Blue – Nancy A. Collins
… Truth – Dawn Cook
Doranna Durgin
Kate Forsyth
Anita Blake/Merry Gentry – Laurell K. Hamilton
Mary Herbert
Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan
John Lee
Mercedes Lackey
Irene Radford
Star WarsI read a lot more before our son was born. Now I have to squeeze it in when he’s sleeping. Oh and I forgot the mangas since they are on a shelf in the bedroom. They are mainly Shojo (for girls) of the magical girl variety – Magic Knight Rayeath, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Sailor Moon, Full Moon, Guardian Angel Getten, Angelic Layer, Chobits, some other stuff by CLAMP.
We did a quick count recently of how many books we had, came to 759. That doesn’t include the 70 RPG books we have as well!
Did you know that Edward is going to be in The Harlequin? I think it comes out June 5th. I was so excited – I’ve missed Edward. Romantic Times only gave the book 3 stars because they said there was too much action for the time it took – but all LKH’s books are like that so I’m not going to complain! 😆
Doranna Durgins Dun’s Lady Jess was one of those books I read and had to find everything else she wrote. She’s writing for Harlequin Romance now. I wish she could do more fantasy.
Ever try Dara Joy?
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