Official Deployment

By now most everyone now knows our family is yet again again gearing up for another deployment. Geoff leaves on Aug 28th. We've been gettin alot of "man the timing sux.". Or "how are u feeling about this". This Blog is great cause I can address this where everyone can read it here direct from the correct source. The timing here sux it does but as Geoff has said many times No timing i perfect for a deployment on ANY family. It just so happens that our family is going through alot rite now. Fact of thr matter is we've been prepareing for this deployment for over a yr. I honestly hate knowing that soon in advance about deployment. Im a just give me the orders ur leaving 48hrs before and go..otherwise, im sittin around waiting on it and the mission is on again off again about 50 million times before orders are in hand. Its psychologically draining. Just tell me and go! But this is a for sure thing. So, in this instance its bren nice to have some to get things wrapped up with Nathan's stuff before he leaves and the kids needed extra prep time especially since Nathan's loss is still fresh. There doing well. They were already prepared Dad was leaving anyway. They know this is there dad's job. We are a military family and this is what we do. Geoff's boss General Hall did call me in personally and ask me directly how i felt about it and if id have said dony send him i feel sure he would take gim off this mission. Another fact is Geoff hasnt deployed since '08 so our deployment card is due..if he stayed back here and didnt go now in 5-6 when another unit went that was going that needed a Sgt Major position that does what he does...he'd have to go with them. We can't hit and miss on this forever. He's put alot of time and energy and time away from us while planning this mission he's going on and he wants to go with the guys hes training with and see for himself how the execution of this misssion go. Otherwise he'll b sittin here wondering and thinkin bout it. So, im feeling ok about it. This is sadly apart of our normal. I am a military wife right now and this is what we do. We send our husbands to war and we stay behind and keep what i call our militarys children lifted up and help them understand why. We are everywhere on different parts of the world but this is our life we dont like it sometimes we just about hate it, but we do it...