Woahhh, We're Halfway There!

It’s been 180 days since I’ve seen my husband.

When Shane left in January for a 12 month deployment to Afghanistan, I had planned to start a blog to track my year of dealing with it. But for one reason or another, my plan failed to launch- until now.

Something about reaching the halfway point (woohoo!) ignited the spark to finally put my feelings out there in cyberspace, for whoever is interested to follow along.

To say these past six months have been hellacious is putting it lightly. Awful, heartbreaking, terrifying, and miserable do little justice. I’ve always had an easy time with words, but deployment sucked my ability to write about it right out of me.

Keeping myself busy has been the solution to not completely losing my mind. With working full-time, joining the Austin Valkyries Rugby Team, writing for Define The Meaning and The Austin Deli, and spending time with friends, my idea for a blog got lost somewhere in between my need to stay busy, and my lack of a thorough plan of exactly what to say and how to say it.

I did not scrap writing altogether these past six months however. I have been writing every day in fact, in the form of sending Shane a letter every night before going to sleep- yes, every single night, and every so often during the day. So the format of some of my posts will follow suit at times. Feel free to check my progress over the next half a year. I plan to post about the ups and downs, the happy moments as well as the ones that make me want to die a little. Just another half a year of this to go…

Deep breath.