Redeployment

To wives of civilians, redeployment is probably something that is completely confusing. The though of deployment is sad, then you add "re" to the beginning and one would think you'd be talking about deploying again. When in all actuality it means that their coming home!!! :D

With that being said, not too long ago we received our first email which touched on redeployment!! ::happy dance:: And of course, with that comes the questions of when the guys are coming home. The window of time that the soldiers come home always changes. So one is to not get hung up on the first date that is told to you, no matter who it's by.

Now someone who is sitting there at their computer right now is thinking, "Stupid, naive girl. There is no date given out right now, so stop it." But the fact of the matter is, what I'm basing everything off of right now has to deal with the longest the deployment is supposed to be. 

No matter what, homecoming should be right around our son's birthday! He'll be turning three! My husband has already expressed to me that he would rather this homecoming just be the two of us. So I have a friend, J, that will watch the kids for us while I go to pick Alex up. This works out great for me because I wasn't sure how I was going to juggle both kids. Journey and I talked today about how, since homecoming will be around Colin's birthday and Colin doesn't know when his birthday is, my husband should hide in a 'present' and be his biggest birthday present.

I'm not sure how I'm going to hold up during that, but I'm more than excited about it! Journey has already said that she will tape it for us as well. How cute will that be?!

Anyway, that's my exciting news about homecoming. It doesn't matter if the guys come home a month before or a month after Colin's birthday. It will still be an amazing surprise for Colin's hero to come home and surprise him.

P.S. 9 month deployments really throw me off. But we're nearly to double digits! Yee!