Counting Down and working off the anxiety. Today I felt myself falling into a rut so I grabbed my gym gear and worked off my worries with intense cardio. I don't mind at all-actually I felt great afterward but all the sweating dries out my locs and I cannot wash them everyday without disrupting the process of my new growth locking up properly ( Read more... )

The final month that my fiance is scheduled to be in Iraq before returning home after a 14 month tour. My heart feels heavy but also full of happiness. I only have a little more packing to do in preparation for moving south to spend the rest my life with him (in all the many places that the military so chooses to send him "us ( Read more... )

In his letter he wrote about feeling very tired and I just wished there was something that I could do for him. We are so far apart and I just hope nothing ever overshadows the love that I have for himand that he feels such love in his heart every day of his life. I have not yet recovered completely from having him here on leave in November. A ( Read more... )

I miss my soldier, my buddy, my love so much ( Read more... )

Now, that we have the location for our wedding, the rest will hopefully fall into place. My fiance should be home from Iraq within 38 days as of 1/22/05. I pray and plead beyond reason for his safe return. This has been a rough year but so very special and remarkable at that. Two weeks of time never seemed so precious until spent with him while ( Read more... )

I thought a lot about how much time we have spent apart since his deployment and if this is not a good dose of reality to prepare me for military life I don't know what is. Since he left I have only spent 16 days with him thanks to his leave. A total of 14.5 months will have passed if he comes home as scheduled. But I am not complaining......I ( Read more... )

At exactly 7:03 am Eastern Time here in NJ I was awakened by the ring of my cell phone to the wonderful and delightful sound of my sweetheart. He called just to say he loved me and was thankful for all the baked goods. letters, and video clips that I have sent to him since his deployment so many months ago, Next week he will have been gone an ( Read more... )

or misunderstanding or arguments. Is that asking too much. I am beginning to realize that in order to accomplish that goal I must not get annoyed by the ultimately annoying. My mother and I get along great usually but at other times it is like oil and water desperately trying to get away from the other. We had yet another fall out in the grocery ( Read more... )

I got another e-mail this morning from my soldier!!! Three to four months do not seem that far away. I am sorry that my honey and I have to be apart for the holidays but I am more thankful that though apart we are together in spirit and in love. I have sent lots of goodies his way thus far and tried my hand at baking cookies to mail out tomorrow ( Read more... )

Perhaps every Friday my fiance will be able to e-mail me from Iraq. The amount of relief that I feel every time I hear from him never ceases to overwhelm not amaze me. Two weeks down, who knows how many more months to go. All day long I am in constant prayer, thinking about him at almost every moment ( Read more... )