Hello World!

I am Jami. I am a mother of 2 very busy little boys (2 and 1). I have been married to my wonderful husband for a short 7 months, but we have been together 6 years.  I am currently a full time student and a stay at home mom. My husband is an EMT and a Volunteer firefighter. In our six years we have went through more things most people our age have never even though about.  

About a year ago my husband came to me telling me he wanted to join the Army. My first reaction was how could you do this to your family? Are you freaking nuts? But after I calmed down and started really looking into it, I found that more than half of Army wives love being an Army wife.  It will be an amazing opportunity for him and I and our two young boys. This is something my husband has always wanted to do but something always come up or got in the way for him to join. I feel as a wife I should not stand in front of his dreams. He has never once told me I could not follow or put down any of my dreams. How could I do that to him?  I am still very nervous that my husband my leave and never return home to me.  How can I explain that to my kids that daddy is never coming home?   It will be extremely hard but our faith and love will get us through the rough parts. We know the risks of joining. But who's not to say something might happen to him in a civilian job career? 

In October he left for Basic Training. The first couple of weeks were extremely hard. We have not been more than 2 days apart from each other.  For 2 weeks I had no communication with my husband. The hardest part of him leaving was my son taking his anger out on me for his daddy leaving. He does not understand why his daddy left. There were many days I just wanted to give up and say the heck with it. It takes a lot to be a way from your husband or any close family for that matter. If  my husband is willing to sacrifice his life for our country than I am willing to give all I have to stand behind him and support him!  I finally started receiving letters 3 weeks in.Which helped a lot. It may seem weird to some, but I read those letters as if he were standing there talking to me. He was able to come home thankfully for Christmas. We got 2 weeks together. That was the best two weeks I could ever have asked for. On Jan 3rd 2011 he had to return back to basic. That was the hardest goodbye yet. Hearing my son asking were daddy is going and not fully understanding what I am telling him broke my heart even more. We are now 1 week from graduation and this week is just dragging on and on. After graduation he will then begin his job training ( AIT ) and that will be for 4 months. He absolutely loves what he is doing  and I am very excited and proud of him! 

~For I am the wife of an American Soldier.