Deployments are hard on everyone.  The soldier is away from home, away from all of the people and the things that he loves.  A wife has to adapt to being on her own.  Just so you know, anything and everything that can go wrong or break will when your husband is away.  It’s like a test to make sure you are cut out to be an Army Wife.  The kids miss their daddy and sometimes they are just too young to understand anything other than daddy is at work and he is going to be at work for a really long time.  Hard does not equal impossible.  You just have to adapt, or as I say “suck it up and move on”.  Finding things to do to fill up the time is one of the best words of advise that I could give anyone facing a deployment.  When you are busy you don’t have idle time to sit and think and worry.  Time won’t be a luxury for me so hopefully that means that this next year will fly by.  One of the things that I chosen to work on is a 365 project.

What is a 365 project?  It’s taking a picture every day for 365 days, that simple.

This gives me something to focus on.  It gets me to pick up my camera everyday and to be creative.  It will be fun for the kids, or at least Riley, to take a picture for daddy.  And Marty gets to see every single day what we are doing, how the kids are growing and learning, everything from the mundane to the extraordinary.  He may or may not have the ability to see the pictures every day but we will figure that out as we go along.  If he can’t see them on the blog or have access to email we will send them to him and besides, you know we’ll be sending him a box of peanut butter every month anyway.  I wonder, do they even have peanut butter in Afghanistan?

We only have weeks left, yes weeks, but still enough that I can’t count them on just one hand, before Marty will deploy and I want to be able to capture the kids, with their daddy.  I want the memories documents for me and for them.  Pictures that we can look back on over the next year.  Pictures that the kids can see and hold and know that their daddy misses them and loves them.  So I am starting early.  It may end up being longer than 365 days but that’s okay right?  So starting tomorrow Operation: 365 will commence.  I do have 2 kids and I am soon to be a single mom so pictures may not actually be posted daily all of the time.  I will when I can, when the kids let me.  Other times they will be posted, in a group.  One way or another they get out there, they will be posted, and we can bore you with our ordinary lives.  Maybe I will even throw in a video here and there.  At least I know that all of the grandparents are going to enjoy this.



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