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Dear Kathryn,
About Aprille:
“I’m Aprille. I’m a 24-year-old proud stay-at-home wifey, been married for almost 3 years. My husband Russ is in the US Army. We are also have a precious baby boy, Ezra, who was born September 2010 and has an insane amount of hair! We are currently stationed at Fort Knox.”
You can visit Aprille at her site: Beautiful in His Time
This is the best advice I have ever heard.
This post is awesome!
We got married in the midst of pre-deployment training (my hubby is in the Army Reserves so there were about three months of training prior to him becoming activated) and the deployment started just a month after we got married. As of now, there isn't a deployment coming any time soon but I know I will have at least one child the next time my husband deploys.
I wish I would have had that advice prior to our first deployment, although I feel we handled it fairly well especially as newlyweds. But I will definitely turn back to this advice when the next deployment comes.
p.s. Kathryn I love the new blog look. And no, you do not have to go through the deployment alone!
Great post and advice!
As an Army wife of 7 years, gone through 2 deployments and a 2.5 year stint of mini-deployments (long explanation), I totally agree with everything you've said. That is great advice that every military wife should listen to. Thank you for sharing!
That's beautiful 🙂
I love Aprille & you too Kathryn! And by the way, I'm stealing that photo so I can share it and a link to this post on my blog! 🙂
That's funny, my husband left mid July, and had his R&R in October too! Sucked. I didn't even really miss him yet… he had been away on training longer than that multiple times! (he is Infantry)
It flew by watching Maks grow. I kept very busy with our church as well, taught Sunday School, was a leader for a youth group small group, and was in charge of our "Military Wall" in our church!
I think being apart actually made us love each other more. We joke now that we love each other better when we aren't actually together… :-p when we are together in person we annoy each other, but when he is away on field training I get tons of beautifully worded love texts lol but of course I am so excited for him to get home again and annoy me some more.
Great post and wonderful advice. I think that also making sure you have special things to look forward to throughout the year is a great idea. I imagine having an early R&R date and then the holidays could leave the second half of deployment feeling very empty.
Writing old-fashioned snail mail letters is also another wonderful way to connect and keep romance alive!
Thank you so much for stopping by the weekly linky–hope to see you tomorrow, too!