It's hard.

Let's face it... deployments are HARD.  Even the strongest military wives you know, have hard, and awful days. There are days when you can't imagine peeling yourself off of the couch.  There are days when the children just will not cooperate.  There are days when dinner gets burnt and hair just won't do what you want it to.  There are days when the dog poops on the best rug in the house and the cat claws (and ruins) a chair your grandmother gave you.  Then there's those days when your tire goes flat, or your car won't start... your dishwasher broke and your toilet overflows.

Face it, life is hard; Deployments are harder.

There are good parts too, though.  There's "you" time.  Sometime that us military wives, so RARELY get.  The time when you put the kids to bed and sit on the couch, and you literally have NOTHING to do.  It's a beautiful thing.  You can watch a movie that your husband never wanted to.  You can release your stress through a blog (hi!), you can read a book that you could never concentrate on before...

There's also the bond of military wives. You know, that girl that you barely knew a year ago, but now that you're both going through a deployment, you've realized your sisters at heart.  You can relate to each other on almost any topic and you call that person the second you have ANYTHING to say, to ANYONE.  You share your happy thoughts, negative thoughts, anything you want, and they don't judge you, because they have things to share with you too.  Yea, those are pretty amazing parts.

Over the next 8-10 months, I plan on sharing my ups and downs and all of the in between during a deployment.  I hope that it helps me to release some of my stresses and that it helps you all realize we're all alike, and we all deal with the same horrible, crazy, fantastic emotions.

Military Wives are sisters.  We should start acting as them. :)