Homecoming!

Lots of things come to mind when you think about homecoming; parades, games, dances and if you are an ACU alumni the old purple and white. Homcoming originated from towns welcoming back old residents, schools later adopted the event to welcome back alumni. If you would like to read up on the whole affair I found an interesting article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming

But if you are in the military, homecoming means something else. He is coming home! You'd think that women would bring posters, and balloons and gather waiting for ships to arrive after a big six month deploment, oh and they do by the thousands. But even after 2 weeks or a month, women still wait the two hours that it takes to "park" the boat. The sailor on the ship isn't the only one in the Navy, the entire family is in the Navy. Underways are tough on either side of the dock. Many sailors don't realize how tough it is to deal with everything, the bills, the kids, the real world while they are gone. And gone they are. Their big deployment is six months. But leading up to that cruise is a year of pulling in and out. Six months of the year before they leave for six months is spent in and out of port.

It is a tough life. But the hardest part is not being able to talk to David. He is my best friend, when I have good news or bad news or no news at all, it all goes in an email. And I get an email a day, no phone calls. I can imagine the ease of a relationship if when you have a problem you just talk to your spouse about it.

David is coming home soon! So soon that I can say that it is sometime this week. And I am so excited. So excited I am not thinking about the next time he has to leave.