Guard Wife

This is the story of a National Guard wife during an 18 month deployment.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Off to Camp Shelby, MS

We leave in 4 days! Me and 2 other girls leave Saturday morning to see our husbands for the last time before they leave for Iraq. We will be driving my Expedition cross country 24 hours to Camp Shelby, MS.

Our emotions are running ramped. We have excitement, nervousness, stress, joy, anger, happiness, terror, rage, desire, etc. That is a lot of emotions to have all at once. Wouldn't you just love to be in my household right now. I am a ball of moodiness. One minute I am up and excited to leave and see my husband, the next I am angry and terrified of what is to come after I come back home. I try to look at the positive aspect of things and think about the next week I will be able to spend with my hubby. But there are plenty of us who can only think of the future and they cry all the time. I too think of the future....the distant future! When I will be able to have my DH back for good. He will be mine, all mine and the Army will have nothing to say about it.

The next 2 weeks are going to be....there are no words for my feelings. If I could put all the aforementioned emotions into one word, that would be how the next 2 weeks are going to be. I know that my husband is more than excited to see me. I think he is even a little nervous too, though he won't admit it.

I will be spending the next 4 days prepping to make the trip. I need to pack clothes for both of us, clean my truck, get a tune up, tan some more, work out every day, find someone to watch my dog, and square away all my affairs at work. The week will be stressful, but it will go so fast. In no time I will be lying in by Dh's arms, completely content.

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