The beginning...

   One week from today, half of me will leave our home. He'll leave what seems like suddenly. He'll leave with uniform on. My husband must leave his three girls to begin his year long deployment to Afghanistan. It seems like only a distant thought in our heads, this deployment thing, but it surely has come all too soon. I, Carrie, am his proud wife. His scared wife. As I go on this journey of the uncertainties, raising our two young daughters alone, I look forward to sharing with you, the happy times and the bad, the raw truths of emotions of the heart, the over-thinking of the powerful brain. I share it because I am good at sharing and have no shame, and because for ten years now, families of this generation, not to mention all the families in our history, period, have gone through the same thing. It's now our turn.