What? What is attached to my hip? Oh, why, that is just my computer, cell phone, and house phone!!

Ok fellow Army wives/girlfriends. . . we all know we walk around carrying our cell phones so that we never, NEVER miss a call from our soldier.  Right?  Right!

Well, I've recently found myself trapped in a hole I dug for myself.

I've moved in with my parents for the duration of my husband's deployment to help save on bills while he is away and so I can have help with my two boys.  My parents live in some alternate galaxy where my cell phone doesn't get a signal.  This being said, my main form of communication, not only with my husband, but also with ALL of my friends around the world, has been my laptop.  And my landline phone (I didn't even know they still existed!!)

Ok, so here is the hole I dug.  I've been missing my husband a lot (of course!) and I don't get to talk to him often.  A lot of  my Army girls get to talk to their husbands every other day or so, but not me.  I get once every couple of weeks, maybe.  AND I've MISSED two of his calls!!  So obviously, each and every call is precious!  So what would you do if you realized you were missing his calls?  You would probably start staying home near the phone and computer, right?  Well, that's what I started doing!!

Bad move.  I wasn't getting out.  I was secluding myself.  I was attached at the hip to the landline phone and my laptop.  I'll admit, I'm still attached to my laptop, but not as bad as before.  I was getting depressed and lonely and sad.

It took me a couple weeks, but I realized it.  I REALIZED it!  Whew!

I started going out, even just to run errands or anything, just to get out of the house.  It made me feel better.  I made it a point to go to the gym more regularly.  It made me feel better.  I started being social to real human beings and not just my friends online.  It made me feel better!

Point of the story ladies and gentlemen, is that I know it is hard to be left at home during a deployment.  I KNOW!  But we have to continue our lives.  We cannot put everything on hold until our men come home.  If we do, we will wind up in a deep dark hole of misery and that is definitely not a good place to be supporting our husbands/boyfriends from!  We need to stay healthy and happy so that we can be there for our men and we won't be a miserable hot mess when they DO come home!

The End.  :)

Stepping down from my soapbox now.  Thank you.

Welcome!

Welcome to my new  blog!

It has been about a year since I've blogged, so bear with me as I get used to it again.

I'm a wife, mother, teacher, role model, daughter, and superhero all rolled up into one.  This blog is going to be a brief insight into my life as the wife of a deployed soldier and everything that comes with it.  I'm hoping to be able to help some of you out there by giving you fitness tips, helping you with deployments, giving tips of being a parent when you are getting ready to put your kids up for sale on ebay, you know, the usual every day kind of stuff.

If there is ever anything you would like me to talk about, please don't hesitate to leave a comment or contact me!