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RE: Military wives support - 10/20/2008 4:59:36 PM
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ezri
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Awesome Sandy! I am betting that our march R&R trip to the mountains will have A LOT of family managing to find their way to our Time Share for the first time since we bought the place in 2005. Yeah we drive 5 and a half hours out that way twice a year every year stay in the same place every year and only ONE nephew has EVER managed to make the drive to the unit to see us. They expect us to drive near 6 hours out there then drive all over the county to see them. We have not done it yet and we wont do it. I think this is gonna be the thing that drives that fact home.
I am going out in November and it will only be about a week since Jerry will have left the country and if they think I am gonna drive they are wrong. My folks always come out to see us. even my 70 something yo granny drives out to the unit to see us!
We are working on the realization that Jerry is going to need a ride back to Ft Bragg that is not me at the end of the 4 day weekend. Friends don't let friends weep and drive right? He is going to ask the pastor if he could drive him down.
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RE: Military wives support - 10/21/2008 12:15:04 PM
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ezri
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Ezri, you're not high maintenance or a wuss. You're a woman who adores her man and doesn't know how she will survive with him across the globe. BUT...survive you will, I have no doubt. Praying for God's all encompassing peace to be on you, dear friend.
Thanks Donna. I still feel like I am not being as strong as I need to be. HE needs to not worry about *ME* There is a delicate balance there- Like the house when he came home that tuesday- just enough done to show we can get by but enough undone that he knew beyond a doubt that we NEEDED him.
His 48 hour pass. He was in here with the boys playing a computer game. I was in the living room working on wiring some frames for a photo contest. No actual photos to deal with or anything at that point simply using a small drill to make pilot holes then screwing in metal eyes and all- I suddenly realized that I was shaking, breathing shallow, nauseated, my back got tight... I was falling quickly into a panic/anxiety attack... I walked to the computer room and asked Jerry if he could come with me- I was nearly full gone at this point- sweating and pale and all.
It was actually hard to admit I was having the episode. He thought my blood sugar had plummeted (a lot of the same symptoms) I couldn't even stop the trembling enough to get the blood on the strip of the glucose meter(was 124). He held me and rubbed my back til it passed. I lay there and cried the whole time. It hurts to breathe when he is gone. The sun doesn't shine when he's not here. it takes a lot to not be a zombie going through the motions, but there are times if I don't go into zombie mode I fall apart. Falling apart is not an option most of the time.
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Sandy...I hope you have the most awesome time while he's home!!! And yes, unpacking his clothes would be good. 
one question--- Why? Jerry said he'd help me pack his things away the 4 days he is going to be home. I asked him WHY? he said that I HAD SAID I was gonna paint the room while he was gone so it'd happen at some point and he'd rather help me than leave me with a huge mess.
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RE: Military wives support - 10/22/2008 6:40:19 PM
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ezri
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Thanks Harvie- they reeeaaalllly hoover and leave me drained, but I am sure you already know that.
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RE: Military wives support - 10/22/2008 9:28:23 PM
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ezri
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we also have Black & Deckered... I have teens you know. Course the worst thing I have really had to deal with is language such as sucks(hoovers) and screwed(black & deckered) then i should count myself hugely blessed right?
We have been working on SHUT UP! My girls(18 and 16) can say the equivalent of this phrase in several languages. My fave is from the "fantasy book genre"... You ready...
SILENCE MORTAL!
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RE: Military wives support - 10/23/2008 11:35:09 AM
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ezri
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Harvie- I'd loan you a trash taker outter if you were closer. I kinda like all my trash taker outters so I couldn't part with them for any real length of time. I even have a few that'd take your toad and relocate it for you. My #2 is Queen of the froggenlanders. Queen O'leianna*, age 16.
Sarah- glad you could appreciate my Silence Mortal quip. It is funny when 16yo looks UP at 14yo in walmart and says this in her low growly Sarka Longstaff* voice. Note- 16yo DD is 5'8" 14yo DS is 6'0"
* both are characters in stories she has written. We call all her leading ladies her "other" personalities. Sarka is a military rank= to commander, longstaff is her weapon of choice. She can put a hurting on ya and never get close enough for you to reach out and touch her- much like Triss and her Quarterstaff. (Triss is 16yo's real name- okay her real name is Tristany, we call her Triss.
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RE: Military wives support - 10/23/2008 11:02:10 PM
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ezri
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OK, I sent an email to my husband's commanding officer .... he's promised to come over after work and perform slug-related caulking and coroner duties. YAY! A colonel who makes house calls! (Well, he DID say to contact him if I needed anything!)
THIS is what I need, lol!
EEEEK!
roflol....now thats a CO who's a keeper!!!
I will add my DITTO! That's a keeper. And a lot cheaper than shipping one of my bug squishers or critter catch&releasers out that way.
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RE: Military wives support - 10/24/2008 9:04:07 PM
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emi-jo
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hey everybody!
I am new to this site but I thank God that he brought me too it 
I have delt with separation before but when we werent married...
I have been married to my sailor for a year now and he has been deployed since may
he will be returning in a month from now and I have so many feelings I'm not sure how to handle myself.
whats it like when you see your husband for the first time after him being gone for a while?
i want to know what to expect the first few weeks hes home again.
oh! and the moment when i waved goodbye to my sanity somewhere in the middle of deployment...that comes back doesnt it?
Emily
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RE: Military wives support - 10/24/2008 10:06:18 PM
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ezri
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Hiya emily!
WELCOME!!!
Your question? I have no true experience with 6 month absences. My dad was navy and gone a lot but I was 10 when he retired so......... The longest my active duty army national guard Honey has been gone -without a visit- was 3 months WAY BACK WHEN.(he has 20 years in thus far)
My Honey is still stateside doing all the pre-deployment training stuff. he leaves for the sandy place next month. If all goes as planned I will see him in march, but you know how uncle sam likes to mess with our plans.
Some of the other ladies might be better able to fill you in on the workings/what to expect after they return from deployment... I would caution though that every man is different and will handle the stress of deployment in his own way just as they will handle the stress of returning home differently. I am sure there are probably some loose guidelines out there for what to expect but I'd hold them loosely. We's not all cut of the same cookie cutter you know. Some of us are a bit more whiny than others. *points to self*
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