Coming Home

Deployments suck.  

But luckily for us, Jack's 3rd deployment is coming to an end and the phrase "coming home" (which I seem to hear and read everywhere lately) makes me giddy.  I'm hoping that this is Jack's last deployment for at least 2 years.  I don't think I can handle another deployment mentally or emotionally, and it's just too depressing hearing Caroline say "I miss my dad, can he come yet?"  Now don't get me wrong, I'm extremely proud of Jack and the job he does, but it will be nice for our family to be together for more than a year at a time.  On a happier note (well it makes me happy, our family...not so much) when I hear "coming home" I also think of my homecoming to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  Of course I love Louisiana and all of our family and friends here, but it just doesn't feel like home to me anymore.  Kentucky and Tennessee feel like home to me.  I think the reasoning for that is the fact that every time we live there Jack is home and our family is together.  We are happier so it feels more like home.  

I went to Fort Campbell Sunday and Monday of this past week to find us a new place.  This is our new house that we will be renting for the next 6 months or so.

The house is really cute, but it's so much smaller than I would like.  I can move in on April 1st, and I'm really hoping to, but it might not happen.  Moving back to Fort Campbell will be a bittersweet move.  I will be thrilled for Jack to be coming home at the end of April, but I'll be sad knowing that we will be leaving all of 

our friends up there in September when we change duty stations to Fort Polk, La.  Our friends up there are like our family so we will be heartbroken to leave them.  We were supposed to be moving overseas in September, but due to some changes the Army made that's not possible unless we want Jack to deploy again as soon as we get there.  With that said, we will be moving 4 hours away from our friends and family in Louisiana to Leesville, La.  I'm not thrilled by the move because I have yet to hear of anything good about the place, but I know our family will be happier to see us more often.

I've been watching the show "Coming Home" on Lifetime, and if you haven't watched it yet you should check it out.  The full episodes are on http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/coming-home

This show is about military families reuniting when returning from deployments.  It is definitely a tear jerker so have tissues on hand, but it’s a sweet show that shows the emotions that military families feel when their loved ones come home.  Also if you watch it they are at Fort Campbell a lot which shows where we live (if they talk about Fort Campbell, Oak Grove, Ky, or Clarksville, Tn they are all pretty much the same.)