I didn't exactly finish this blog-I think I just came up with the fork you and then forgot I had more to write. Excitement over a fork-silly.
One of the other parts that comes with your spouse deploying is loneliness. Plain and simple your life gets lonely. Or at least mine did. In my world, I married Doug because he was my best friend, the person who I like to find trouble with, find God with, sleep through movies as he watches them with, talk to about everything-seriously as soon as something happens he is the first person I want to tell, not talk to as soon as I wake up because I don’t talk in the morning, sit next to as I blog-you get the point. One of the best parts of marriage is you have a full time companion. Someone to do stuff with!
Now that I’m a housewife/stay-at-home Mom that companion thing is even more so important. My day is literally planned around Walker first and foremost and then Doug. I take care of Walker all day and then do millions of chores/errands so when Doug walks through the door-there is less to do and more time for us to spend together. I really enjoy it. Now instead of on the weekends me talking him into cleaning a bathroom and playing rock-paper-scissors for who gets to clean the big bathroom-we look at each other and ask ‘what do you WANT to do’? That is sooooo nice! (BTW we still totally play rock-paper-scissors for diaper changes….though Doug looses. Instead of putting out two fingers for scissors like he intended-he put one out….the game is rock-paper-scissors…not make up your own weapon-you lose! Lol….)
But without my companion-it may seem like I’m just cleaning and recleaning and recleaning a house with no fun in sight!!!!! No 6 o’clock to look forward to. Because no one is coming through that door to play rock-paper-scissors with me and laugh at Walker’s new antics.
So I think I may take to traveling this spring. (Walker and Hope coming to a town near you-possibly.) The only commitements I have here are my reserve duty and bible study. My reserve duty I may be able to take on the road once we figure out how to hook the CAC reader so I can work from home (or your home). Bible study-I can’t give that up-because I’m leading it-eeeek! (That is another post subject, woah nelly there!) But none the less those are Wed and Thurs and then my one weekend a month. So maybe Thursday night through Tuesday nights I’ll be a traveling gnome (with a baby gnome of course…).
Fork you loneliness-I shall not sit at home and be bored and lonely. Rock-paper-scissors-lets see where Walker and Hope end up!!!!
I feel ya sistah! And with a munchkin in tow, that's not to easy! I did get used to Marshall being gone, which isnt the same as being OKAY with it, but it does get lonely. It's nice to have someone to talk to, someone to share those awesome trips with, but at the same time, having the alone time to figure YOU out is sometimes a little bit of a blessing in disguise, too. It's easy to get wrapped up in life and marriage and each other, so take the time to re-meet HOPE! And have fun skyping. :)
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