I find that after soldiers deploy theres this humongous cloud of depresion hanging around especially on post, on FB, on blogs, on tweets etc etc etc. I can totally understand why people feel that way, their loved ones are away & not for a day but a whole year!! so I'm not gonna judge the people who think their lives suck or have fallen apart once their spouse leaves, everyone needs time to adjust, everyone needs time to sulk & basically just be sad..so power to you, sad-my-life-sucks-i'm-gonna-die person!..but eventually days go by & we get over it, just human nature because eventually we'll know there's nothing we can do about it, so goddam hand me the lemons I'll make you the best lemonade ever!!! HA! take that deployment! The army has all these different organizations that organise all these family activities to keep people busy. Just last nite we went to the annual dinner & a movie nite on post, it was packed! they serve dinner (pasta with meat, salad, ice cream & juice) then everyone sits on the floor with blankets, pillows & watch a movie (last nite was tooth fairy) then we all go home & hey another day gone! next week theres a sesame st concert coming, performing free to military bases all over the world (kudos 2 u S.St) I mean who else better to put a smile on a kids face than Elmo!! & they have other numerous functions every other day that I pretend I'm too busy to attend lol but the point is when the soldiers away, they don't forget the support system waiting back home. We, the wives get these emails from these ladies ( I heard its like an army wife cult!!! lmao no i bluff) well if you watch the show 'Army wives' you probably know about the *FRG. So they email all this info to you, once in a while hold meetings where you can go meet them & i dunno do the whole army wife thing (honestly I just joined before the deployment because they get all the info n our husbands out there!)..and then theres all the free counselling from personal issues to finance to legal & of course what would we do without healthcare! Theres probably so many other ways they help or try to help out the families during deployments, those are the ones i can think of right now, besides its my 3rd year of being an army wife & I STILL don't know how the army works! lol For whatever reason I am grateful, I don't have to sit all day in the house (all the time) and stare at the walls & proclaim the suckiness of my life. I can go look up an upcoming event, take my girls out, watch them smile, scream a little bit for mady to stop running everywhere & come back home thinking, hey! we did something today, its not so bad after all. I still miss my husband though, no matter what we're doing, I'm still counting down to homecoming. Peace & Love!
*FRG - Family Readiness Group..(uhh the army wives club?) every battery has their own FRG, theres an FRG leader, who is usually one of the top ranking officers wife in the battery. Its kinda like a support group for the wives, well at least thats how i see it.
