Sunshine When He's Gone

Somebody the other day asked me if I still feel in love with my husband because we spend so much of our time separate from each other. My answer was "everyday I feel more in love."

It's the small moments in my marriage that makes these days go by. A weekend at home with him, pictures sent from a phone, conversations on the day to day life we spend apart.

More importantly it comes down to not thinking about the time apart we spend and thinking about the future we have together. I understand that this is going to be a challenging time in our lives but we have years to spend together. So when I feel like giving up, crying out that it's all too much and sinking under the pain of separation, I think of the future years. Buying our first house, getting another dog, doing the dishes together.

I don't let this time in our lives determine my happiness. I will always hold my head high and look up to the sun. There is always sunshine to be found when he's gone.

First Anniversary!

Bart and I celebrated our first anniversary this past weekend in the Chesapeake Bay area. We adventured into Annapolis on Friday evening and walked around on the bay. Such a beautiful area! We ate at the best seafood resteraunt we've ever been too, O'Learys . Seriously amazing.

On Saturday we visited the World War Two memorial in the morning. We then took the metro into Falls Church to visit my Aunt Alison and Uncle Mark as well as my cousins. It was amazing to see all the family including my sister and brother-in-law. I also got to meet my cousin's fiance as well as my other cousin's girlfriend. It was so much fun!!

On our actual anniversary we went to the Natural History Museum in the morning and staked out a place on the Lincoln Memorial steps for the fireworks. They were beautiful and I'll be sure to get the good pictures from Bart.

We stayed at the Aloft hotel on the national harbor that evening and visited Baltimore the next day.

All in all it was a very full and fun vacation! I can't believe it's been a year since our wedding. The time has flown by. I can't wait to see what the next year is going to be like!

I'm headed up to Maryland to see my wonderful husband for our first anniversary. Yay!

Pictures and stories when I get back :)
Beka

Hello!

I started this as a way for my friends and family to follow along this journey that is deployment. My husband is a Lieutenant in the Army Reserves. His unit, a Mobile Public Affairs unit, is deploying to Afghanistan in October. And ironically, our last name is Major, thus the name.

My married life has been an adventure to say the least. Almost one year ago we said "I do!" and moved to North Carolina. Shortly after Bart left for army school for two months. The he was home for a few months with only one forseeable length of time away from me.

Then I came home from work one night. Bart said "I need you to sit down."

The timeline changed. We were not going to be able to spend our newlywed days and months in the same state.

Bart claims that I handled this news better than he ever thought I would. This brings us to current days where he is gone for school for the Army again. Then they go to New Jersey until they deploy in October.

I decided to start this to try to encourage me to keep things in perspective and to reach out and find support. Because I am a reserve wife, we do not live on post and the military support base is more challenging to find.

I also want to post the things that make me laugh, cry, celebrate and enjoy my time without my Major so that when he comes home I will have a way to remember those things with him.

With love,
Beka