A Renewed Spirit

I have really neglected this blog for way too long. I thought for sure I would write a lot when Dan was deployed, but the tasks of being a single mother for seven months sucked the energy right out of me. It is satisfactory to say I was in survival mode. Then Dan returned and I thought that I would be able to jump right in and keep up. Well it has been three months since his return and I have yet to write an entry. I have recently enjoyed reading so many of my friend's blogs that I have a renewed spirit to start blogging again. So here it goes!

Many have asked me numerous questions about Dan's deployment. How did I survive? What was it like not to talk to him? What was going through your head when you got the call from headquarters that his truck had been blown up? What was it like to go to a memorial for one of his Marines? All good questions and ones I have not really been able to answer. I am sure some day I will sit down and write out what the experience was like for me and how it continues to affect me today, but for now I have found a few blog entries from others that say so much more eloquently what I have experienced. I posted the following link to a blog on my facebook page recently because the words of this Army wife really touch the part of me that yearns to explain to others what it feels like to endure a combat deployment. So take a peak into this woman world, a world shared by all of us who have experienced a deployment. It is good to know we are not alone.

http://www.spousebuzz.com/blog/2010/02/have-you-been-through-deployment.html

Keep a look out for updates and new posts!