How to Start???

Well Jesse has been gone exactly 44 days now. Oddly enough his report date was our 1st wedding anniversary, and Easter Sunday. Not exactly a cause for celebration. The weeks that proceeded this departure were fast and furious. We sold our house, moved everything, and I came out to Montana with little E. Then I have been busy unpacking here. It is finally starting to slow and settle down, and now, the realization that I won't see my husband for the next eighteen to twenty-four months is starting to sink in. It has been hard on him as well. He is currently at Fort Bragg awaiting mobilization. First he had to go to Fort Jackson for re-training. Since he was in the IRR, and had been out of active duty for a year and a half, the military decided he need "retraining." Now he has met up with his unit at Fort Bragg. They are a reserve unit, primarily out of California. He will be doing more "retraining" for the next couple of weeks, then will head over to Iraq. I am creating this blog, for not only him, myself, and our friends and family, but for others with deployed family members. Since my husband was in the IRR, we are not near any other military families. It is hard to relate to my situation.