Day 88

So I've started and deleted this blog four times tonight. I'm really frustrated and I'm not sure what has caused it. I think maybe things have just been weighing heavily on my mind and it manifests in this funk of a cloud over my head that I can't seem to shake.

I've just heard so many stories of cheating and lies lately that it makes me want to climb inside a bubble and stay there until you come home. I miss you. I miss your smile and your warmth. I miss your hugs. I miss your laugh.

I can't wait for you to come home. Please hurry. I'm posting the Army Wife Creed below as a reminder to you of what this all means to me. I've always got your six. One hundred percent. I love you soldier, goodnight.



I am the wife of an American Soldier.

I am a supporter of the United States Army - an encouragement for the protectors of the greatest nation on earth.

Because I am proud of my husband and the uniform that he wears, I will always act in ways creditable to him, the military service and the nation he is sworn to guard.

I am proud of my husband. I will do all that I can to protect and provide for my family in his absence. I will be loyal to my husband and to the vows that we made as we entered the covenant of marriage.

I will do my full part to carry on the values and goals we have set apart for our family and I will continue to instruct our children in the same manner.

As a soldier's wife, I realize that I play a vital role in my husband's decision to become a member of a time-honored profession - that I am doing my share to keep alive the principles of freedom
for which my country stands.

No matter what situation I am in, I will never do anything, for pleasure, profit, or personal safety, which will disgrace my husband, his uniform or our country.

I will use every means I have to encourage my husband to be the best soldier that he can be.

I am proud of my husband, my country and its flag. I will fly the flag and will always remember the sacrifices
made by my husband and by generations of men and women that have served our beloved country.

I will try to make my husband proud of the manner in which I accept his decision to defend my freedom and
the freedom of all American citizens -
for I am the wife of an American soldier.