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We Are Amazing

December 23, 2009, in Deployment, Military Life by

Through each deployment, there are days of despair: nothing is going well, and you feel like you haven't accomplished anything, and it seems like deployment will never end.

Then there are the Blue Ribbon Days. The days where you accomplish something that was hard, or everything goes well, or you have the opportunity to sit in a clean house and read a book. (Ha!)

I've just finished two of those days. When I woke up yesterday morning, I had a messy house, a pile of unwrapped presents, and a 1000 mile drive ahead of me, with four squabbly children. Tonight, I'm safely at my in-laws with a car full of wrapped presents and back at home, things are relatively tidy. I can hardly believe it. Granted, there was a lot of yelling involved, but we did it. Chalk this one up as great big deployment success.

That is the upside of deployment – the opportunity to do stuff that seems impossible and occasionally succeed. I wasn't sure if I could do this trip without my husband, and I wouldn't have tried if I had any other options. But I didn't have other options, and now I've succeeded at doing something that I thought was too hard.

I know that lots of you have done things that seemed impossible but needed to be done. Today is celebration day – share your successes!

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About She of the Sea

Oh dear - SpouseBUZZ wants a bio from me. I hate writing bios! What do you want to know? I'm a Navy wife and have been for something less than 20 years. I have four daughters who are approaching the teenage years faster than I can drink a Diet Coke. I love writing for SpouseBUZZ because I know that someone out there understands whatever it is I am saying. I also write about money at The Paycheck Chronicles and I am studying for the Certified Financial Planner exam. This year, I have managed to avoid most of my usual volunteer responsibilities (Girl Scouts, PTO, church, etc.) so that I can focus on helping out at the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. It also allows me to make decent but unappreciated dinners and keep relatively up on the laundry.

Still haven't learned to get Christmas cards out on time, though.

Comments

  1. Army Blogger Wife says:
    December 23, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Ummmm….some days it was keeping the kids alive!
    I lost the weight, grew a baby, had a baby, buried my dad, went back to school, started a new career, and lots more things that some days I didn't think I would survive.

  2. David M says:
    December 24, 2009 at 5:33 am

    The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 12/24/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
    http://www.thunderrun.us/2009/12/from-front-12242…

  3. Apryl says:
    December 24, 2009 at 6:02 am

    I agree somedays it was a challenge to get 2 kids safely into bed. LOL
    I think the most daunting task a MILSpouse has is getting up the next morning to do it all again.
    It's hard when your in the middle of the sh*t storm to really look back and realize what exactly you did today that was a success.
    But we all have to remember that we did do 1 thing whatever it maybe and we should be proud of ourselves.
    Give yourselves a pat on the bback!

  4. Joan D'Arc says:
    December 28, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Getting my Master's Degree was HUGE for me – it took 4 1/2 years and a lot of "stuff" happened that could've made me quit, but I stuck with it and I will always have it!
    My other big accomplishment is better suited in a blog post… stay tuned.