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I can’t believe it has been a month since I said good-bye to my husband. I can now say I have officially survived one whole month of deployment. Wow! One month … gone just like that, oh sure -- I can handle this.

Wait….did I say ONLY ONE MONTH? As in ONLY one month down, and ONLY fourteen more to go before this deployment is over?

One month spent writing those “oh-so-special and loving” handwritten letters. One month spent carefully shopping for and mailing two extremely filled to the top “care-packages.” One month spent writing dozens of daily emails written extremely carefully as to not forget to include every last little daily detail. One month spent taking hundreds of digital pictures so I could give my husband a daily play by play of nearly every “thing” our 16-month-old daughter has done that day (i.e. eating, crying, sleeping, walking, laughing, playing, watching TV, staring at me for the thousandth time wondering why I still have the camera in my hand).

Yes, one month to mark off the calendar. One month to be thankful my husband is still safe, still doing his job, still defending the freedom of our county.

One month down…fourteen more to go. I guess I better pace myself (and stop by Costco to buy batteries in bulk for my camera!)