Well, I haven’t posted since New Years and it truly seems like it was just yesterday! This last week was Nate’s last week home before he headed to sunny Florida for his first round of training, the same training that will ultimately take him to Iraq away from Finley and myself for a year. We got to practice goodbye this time…and I can tell you that practice in this case does NOT make perfect. Goodbye still sucks. Now we have conquered deployment before and came out on the better end of things. I am a believer in absence makes the heart grow fonder, I think any military wife must have that thinking to survive and keep their sanity. After all, deployment or not, as a Army wife I am very used to Nate being gone. Whether it’s for a few days or a few weeks it usually doesn’t phase me one bit (it’s just part of his job) however when you know it’s going to be a YEAR its a whole new story.
We try to limit the tears and negative for what it’s worth but believe me they still sneak their moment in the spotlight. As we said goodbye today, well more like… see you in 3 weeks, wished ourselves both good luck (me on a solo mission with Finley and Nate with a 20 hour bus ride with 80 of his closest Army friends to look forward to) we both knew that this is just the beginning. It’s going to be a long year ahead but again I am certain that we will come out on the upside of things, better together.
A few pictures snapped before Nate left today… we tried out our new tripod for the cameras.
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