Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Soooo it's almost been about 2 weeks since Kyle has been gone training at PTA on the Big Island. The time has gone by super fast (thank God) and I can't wait to have him home with me again this Sunday. Maybe it's just my crazy pregnancy hormones, but I can't stop thinking about the next several months and what they are going to bring. Kyle and I made a very hard decision for me to come back home to Michigan while he trains most of the summer. At first, I didn't want to go...I wanted to just stay here and wait while he trained so we could spend time together even if it was only for a week or two at a time. Time is so precious to me now, I would wait a thousand years alone if he meant I could at least have a few days with him. He leaves in July for a few weeks comes back and then leaves again in August for about a month and a half. We decided August would be the best time for me to go. So as of right now, we are going to pack up the house and give it back to base housing for another waiting family, and I am going to go home until May of next year. The great news is Kyle will be coming home for pre-deployment leave hopefully around October, so I wouldn't miss out on too much time with him. I'm just trying to stay positive and not focus on him not being here for the birth of our baby, and the holidays. I know his job is very important, and if brave men like him didn't go and fight we wouldn't get to enjoy the everyday pleasures. We wouldn't get into enjoy our freedom. I keep that in mind when I start to get down about it...because I know there are so many out there less fortunate than our family...and I know that eventually he will be back home with us holding his new baby boy or girl and our family will be whole once again.