Looking back

Yesterday my husband and I had our five year anniversary. We married after only really knowing each other for a little over three months. When we first were married, I'm sure there were plenty of people that thought we rushed into it. Of course, there were the questions of a pregnancy. The fact was that we had planned on getting married a couple months later, but then orders happened. We were dual military with orders for two different places. He was heading to Germany and I was staying in Fort Hood.

Last night as we were sitting at home watching TV, we had our traditional pizza for dinner and it made me really think of where we have been. In five years, we have lived in three different countries and three different states, plus a number of other temporary duties that have found us in a number of other locations. There has been time spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also France, Italy and Spain. There have been promotions, awards and learning how to understand the MEB process. We have welcomed a little one into the world and are expecting our second in the next couple weeks. We have spent about half the time we have been married apart from each other, but that is just part of the military life.

Looking back, it's amazing to think about everything that we have gone through in such a short period of time. We wouldn't change this journey for anything though, because in it was have found that although some thought we were rushing - we knew what we were doing.