This is Me

I have officially been an Army Wife for just one year but I have been supporting my soldier and all that he is and does for much longer.  I have considered starting a blog several times but never followed through because I didn't know if anyone would really care what I had to say.  As I write this I have decided that this blog isn't just for others, although I have found others who can relate to much of what I will write here, but also for myself. 

I love being an Army Wife.  I love my soldier husband with all of my heart and I am incredibly proud of everything that he does and the country that he represents.  This is not to say that sometimes I hate the army and in turn being married to a soldier.  Army life comes with its own set of rules and expectations, pitfalls and hardships.  Although some days I long for the civilian life that my husband and I enjoyed together in college, at the end of the day I am still proud to stand by his side.  I don't think that my husband will be a soldier forever but this experience will stay with us long after he reclaims "civilian status."  I think part of me will always be an Army Wife.

As I find myself alone, with a husband deployed to a foreign country miles away from home, I find myself facing one of the hardest challenges an army wife faces, separation from my other half.  My intent through this blog is to explore the challenges of being the wife of a deployed soldier.  I won't claim that this blog will be exceptionally enlightening.  In fact I expect that many of my posts will be about mundane everyday things that to some may be meaningless and unimportant.  I likely will not even post daily.  But my hope is that some other army wives out there may read some of these posts and not feel so alone in what they may experience.  What I will promise is the following: This is me for better or for worse.