Last week you got me to thinking after I posted the Picnic Date Challenge and hopeful that many of you will join me in doing it. Cody and I did it on Saturday, which you can read here. After seeing someones comment about having to wait until her hubby got back from deployment I couldn't help but want to write a post for military wives! Turns out I am not a military wife so that would be a little hard for me so I sought the counsel of a close friend.
So I asked Amy what she did when her husband Paul was deployed to strengthen their marriage during such a difficult time. So here is what Amy had to say:
I sent him a few packages during his time overseas but he didn't want much to have to bring back. Since he missed our first anniversary, both our birthdays, and Christmas, I just made sure I had all the gifts ready for him when he came home, all wrapped in the appropriate paper! The separation was one of the most difficult seasons of my life, but when I saw him walk through the terminal at the airport after nearly eight months of us being apart, it was the most wonderful feeling in the world!
My class adopted the unit he was with and each student wrote letters to their own soldier, but then I "made" them all write Paul. I was teaching at a private school then so we had chapel every Wednesday and I would send Paul a special email each week letting him know the sweet prayers the kids prayed for him. Mainly, I just wanted him to know we were always thinking about him and praying for his safety.
He was deployed before there was Skype so we were able to instant message each other almost every night (it was 4:30 in the morning for him) and about halfway through, we got to see each other on webcams, but no sound. It was amazing how simply seeing him on the computer screen made me feel so much better. We sent quick emails every day but we tried to make it a point to hand write love letters to each other over the course of his deployment. That was more for our kids to see one day, but there's just something way more exciting about getting a letter in the mail instead of your inbox.
I love to go back and read the emails and letters we wrote to each other. I wasn't sure if his mail was read before he got it, so I never let my letters get too steamy, but I did send him some lingerie and some mistletoe at Christmas and an adult-version mad-libs Christmas card, if that counts as "sultry!"
Amy
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So I asked Amy what she did when her husband Paul was deployed to strengthen their marriage during such a difficult time. So here is what Amy had to say:
I sent him a few packages during his time overseas but he didn't want much to have to bring back. Since he missed our first anniversary, both our birthdays, and Christmas, I just made sure I had all the gifts ready for him when he came home, all wrapped in the appropriate paper! The separation was one of the most difficult seasons of my life, but when I saw him walk through the terminal at the airport after nearly eight months of us being apart, it was the most wonderful feeling in the world!
My class adopted the unit he was with and each student wrote letters to their own soldier, but then I "made" them all write Paul. I was teaching at a private school then so we had chapel every Wednesday and I would send Paul a special email each week letting him know the sweet prayers the kids prayed for him. Mainly, I just wanted him to know we were always thinking about him and praying for his safety.
He was deployed before there was Skype so we were able to instant message each other almost every night (it was 4:30 in the morning for him) and about halfway through, we got to see each other on webcams, but no sound. It was amazing how simply seeing him on the computer screen made me feel so much better. We sent quick emails every day but we tried to make it a point to hand write love letters to each other over the course of his deployment. That was more for our kids to see one day, but there's just something way more exciting about getting a letter in the mail instead of your inbox.
I love to go back and read the emails and letters we wrote to each other. I wasn't sure if his mail was read before he got it, so I never let my letters get too steamy, but I did send him some lingerie and some mistletoe at Christmas and an adult-version mad-libs Christmas card, if that counts as "sultry!"
Amy
turns out your not a military wife! that's a good one. lol very nice post. i'm not a military wife, i'm the wife of a contractor deployed to Afghanistan, so i can totally relate. since Dec 09 he' been home 3.5 weeks! we get to see him in May and me and the kids can't wait! xx
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