Reintegration

As something I have discovered a word that military families come to cringe at just as much as the word deployment is reintegration. This is the period immediately after deployment that everyone involved has to learn how to act as a family unit again. Our reintegration period isn't even here and already I have mixed emotions about it. Don't get me wrong, I am very excited for Nathan to come back. What am I worried about you ask? Learning how to live together as a couple in which both of us have full-time jobs. Up until this point in our marriage we have been separated any time we have both had full-time jobs. When we were first married I was actually working 2 jobs, but Nathan was sent to Missouri a matter of a few days after we were married. Start our first separation while we both worked full-time. Come the end of Nathan's school in Missouri, I quit my jobs to follow him to Germany. I immediately started looking for work but didn't one until right after Nathan left for this deployment. So while I have been working at this job now for awhile this will be the first time that we live under the same roof and both work. Begin just one of my worries for when he comes back.
Hopefully Nathan will be here soon, and then we can begin this wild adventure called reintegration!

Where does time go?

WOW!!! Where the heck does time go? I kept thinking that it had only been about a month since my last post, until I signed in and saw that it has been about 2  months! My bad.
Can you believe that it has been almost a year since Nathan left? As I start prep my house for his homecoming I am reflecting on this past year. At times it seems like it has dragged on forever and at other times it has flown by. I didn't travel as much as I had originally planned this past year, but I did start my job and have been trying to save up all the leave time I can for when he comes home.
We will have more travel pics as soon as Nathan comes home, I promise. We already have a couple of exciting trips set up. I cannot wait!