Love the One You Choose

A phone call.

All it takes is one simple phone call to change

a bad day into T H  E  B E S T  D A Y!

Being away from Michael has taught me a couple of things:

1. I actually can get out of bed on my own really early when necessary.

Which is an A M A Z I N G accomplishment for me!

&

2. Going days without a communication with Michael makes motivation hard to find.

Mike left for Annual Training in California on Saturday the 29th of June. 

Since then, I was able to talk with him most of Saturday through text messages,

but once they arrived on base, it was silence. 

I had no idea how he was, where he was, what he was doing, what was going on,

if he was happy, or if he was healthy!

It doesn't sound like it would be T O O excruciating,

 but it was worse than I thought it would be.

Sunday, I got O N E text message saying he didn't have much service and wouldn't be able to talk with me until next friday. (Just to be clear, the friday he was referring too is July 12th!)

This put me into an instant panic. How the lick was I supposed to survive without any sort of communication???

I   W E N T   N U M B.

Much to my surprise, however, my amazing husband surprised me with a phone call on Monday evening! 

It had only been a couple days since we last communicated, 

but my mind was so focused on the long term ahead of not talking, 

that the phone call 

forced my emotions to do a complete 180 degrees!

A simple 29 minute phone call that could have fueled me for days.

It really made me realize how much I should appreciate the little things Michael does for me. He brings me flowers, calls me just to tell me he loves me, hugs me till I pop, even down to getting me a glass of water. 

What is that quote, 

"Chose the one you love, and love the one you choose?"

At no greater time in my life have I felt this to be true.

It is hard having him leave me so much. 

I can hear people talk, wondering where he is, if we are doing alright, why he isn't with me;

They wonder if we are fighting... Always is it hard to be without him, but I wouldn't trade it for a thing. I am so proud to say that my husband is willing to put his life on the line to defend this country. 

I am proud to be an A M E R I C A N.