Welcome Home, Soldier.

Deployment = Survived!

After (approximately, you know- who's counting?) 10 months, 14 days, 12 hours, and about 30 minutes, our Soldier is home. We shared our joy LIVE today through the MilFamHomecoming hashtag on Twitter.  We are so blessed to have our Soldier home safe. Thank you to everyone for supporting us through this journey. Please continue to pray for those families that are still separated because of this war, and remember that sometimes the real battles begin once the Soldier returns home....
Much, much love, from our hearts to yours.

*the following was originally posted in february of 2011. nearly one year ago...

My left hand holds my rings.

While my left arm stings.

Permanent color of

A yellow ribbon, and

Liebe means love.

A testament of

faith, and strength.

Pain that means

something better is coming.

A fear of goodbye.

A longing for hello, again.

A love that started

with friendship.

A friendship that grew

into love, and love that

grew into family.

A soldier packs.

A family waits.

Permanent color of

a yellow ribbon

and Liebe.

Reminding me now

that love will pull me through.

Reminding me later

that if our friendship, our love

can survive deployment,

our friendship, our love

can survive anything.

We've survived it before.

We'll survive it again.

Even if it means,

I wear my heart on my sleeve.