Showing posts with label Fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fishing. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Welcome Home!

As many of you know, my dear husband and I have been apart for a number of reasons over the couple of years we have been together. Right before he proposed to me last winter, we had been apart for 6 months due to military training. 2 1/2 of those months had no communication allowed whatsoever aside from handwritten letters. This year, we have been apart for 4 months of our marriage.

J was fishing on my Dad's boat off the coast of Oregon and California for the past 2 months trying to earn some money for a down payment on a house. I was not expecting him home for at LEAST another week. But my father, with the sucker of a heart he has for the happiness of his daughters, drove down to Newport, Oregon, a 6 hour drive one way, to pick up my hubby and bring him home early to suprise me.

My parents had me fooled into thinking that I was going to go to dinner with them at Fred's Alehouse before watching the Glacier Peak homecoming football game last night. I was irritated all day after waking up late for work and staying over an hour and a half after close to help with a final patient that had been scheduled wrong. I love my job but 10 hours there a day is more than enough and I was beyond pissed off by the time I got to Fred's. Little did I know that that anger would all melt away in less than a minute.

My sneaky man was sitting at the far end of the bar like a creeper waiting for me to join my family at a nearby table.



Not suspicious at all to nearby bar patrons.


asking if the empty seat next to me is taken.


"What the h***"

Notice my fathers face?




Beyond happy my other half is home to me again.



I can handle my husband being gone. It's hard but its doable because I love him that much. But I would rather be in his arms every day either way.


Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Empty Apartments and Empty Beds

As some may know my dear husband has been gone for most of our married life for a combination of reasons, including work and the military!

This means I am very alone, save for two needy puppies to take care of.

I make dinner for myself. Sit on my couch and read or watch tv by myself. I brush my teeth by myself and fall asleep by myself.

I am alone. More so now that I am married then when I was single.

I will not lie. It sucks. It sucks more than anything in the world to be separated from the one you love. But it has made us stronger.

It forces us to use our words and communicate everything to one another. Otherwise, distance between us will grow and not just in the physical.

I am thankful for a trial such as this because it means Heavenly Father is forging our love for one another and our commitment to our marriage. I am thankful. Despite the fact it sucks :)


 
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