At military life .. Not a blog. You can't get rid of me easily 😉

After 22 years, the pilot was officially retired from the army! You can check This is full preservation of Finnish flight and celebration.

It's been almost three weeks, and I have a lot of emotions. I still feel like he was just on leaving, and can't really believe it's actually done. It was such a dynamic way of life, filled with the highest high means (there is nothing like a feeling of honeymoon when they return!) And some low latest ones.

It's wild (and I'm so grateful to you all) that they were here so much here for almost the whole life! When we first moved to Valdosta and I started a blog, we were newly married and I was completely new in the whole way of life.

Babies !!

Our military life was full of pure joy, like implementation returns and entertained the events of squadrons, but also sadness, fear and worry.

- An incredible feeling when he hugged me for the first time after each scheduling.

"When he wasn't long for a long time and then he felt a little like a stranger."

- Amusing squadrated events and late nights drink wine and talk to the ladies.

- Talking to him on the phone while deployed, but hearing Rocket attacks the background. (It was a voice of a woman with the British accent said by: "Rocket attack. Rocket attack.")

- Careful packaging and arrangement packaging, so excited to check the mail and nurture the handwriting of the letter and the card.

- Learning for his plane to shower with bullets during a certain summer abroad.

When I first met the pilot, I asked him how often he had to go and if he ever had to be arranged. He told me that he would probably not go anymore and probably wouldn't have to arrange. (All my military wife friends can be laughed here.) He was stationed in North Carolina six months later, and was first arranged within a year. He completed the implementation four times.

Military life is constantly flexible for an unknown and inherent solid lifestyle. One of the hardest lessons for me was that the army was always the first, no matter what happened.

There are many things that I can't help, but something that will be persecuted to me in mind was when I had a manual operation surgery), preschooler and newborn with heavy reflux, and was is TDY for more than a week.

So many times, I felt like the end would never be here, and I joked to pull me to the goal, a bag. Proture bag!

Sometimes we hear: "You know what you entered" when the army wife is talking about his fighting. For this reason we often embarrass ourselves to discuss heavy parts. You are expected to keep your smile on your face, focus on all the benefits of military life and go along with it. While I am a huge believer in as positive as possible, it's okay and look around and be like, "this is crazy hard."

I put on a smile (for most lol), supported the love of my life, hosted and attended the parties, went to important events, held fortresses during deployment, long hours and tords and souls to make the most of the children. I was honest when I had a hard day and there, but I didn't want to know the size of how I drained. He was the commander for three years and did an amazing job, but it was difficult on our marriage and family.

You can love your wife Fierecly, you can be proud of him, you can love and support our army ... not * Loving * All about being a military wife. You can do absolutely best of things until you necessarily * enjoy * every aspect of it. If you feel like you're just struggling to make it and sometimes just playing part, it's okay to feel that way. I just wanted to send my love with my colleagues of military women who kept him. If you feel like you will never succeed in the finish line, you will. You're incredibly strong - hanging there.

Many things can be true suddenly: you can look back with sadness, affection, fatigue, joy and gratitude, at the same time.

Small note for A-10 aka Pilot's girlfriend:

- Thanks for the ability to help support our country

- Thanks for the fun memories

- Thank you for the opportunity to make so many baby meals - one of my very favorite things about this whole experience

- Thank you for incredibly health insurance. Some people have mixed experiences, but I have nothing but wonderful things to say about tricare

- Thank you for military friends who have become family

- Thanks thank you thank you for sure to get him back home with us

He took a great job worried about him and he always brought him home to us. Over 3,400 hours in the pilot cabin, and until I will necessarily miss the lifestyle, I will miss the joy that the pilot received from the flying A-10, his Camaraderie with the brooch and that he is there to cheer his achievement. I'm so proud of everything he has done in the last 19 years I knew him (only less than 22 years in the air force).

I am definitely looking forward to the pilot that enjoying the longer, the necessary vacation, then returned to the place of a commercial airline.

Thank you for being there for us during the bend and turning this crazy military life. As we turn the page, I look forward to Chapter 2. 🙂

xoxo

Gina