The Anniversary

It's hard to believe that 365 days ago, Hubby and I were drinking champagne, eating cake and dancing with 104 of our closest friends and family. It's hard to believe that it's already been a year and in looking back over the past 12 months, I can't believe I've made it. 

Exactly two weeks after Hubby and I said, 'I do,' he left to head back to Hawaii to get ready for three months of training in the California desert, a pseudo-Iraq of sorts. I spent the better part of those three months moping around my apartment and around Columbia, SC taking the woe-is-me standpoint on my life. It was miserable. Finally, mid-October rolled around and I found myself back in Hawaii with Hubby until December 10 when he deployed. If you do the math correctly, in the year Hubby and I have been married, we have been together for two and a half months. 

Many people turn up their noses at me, asking why I would marry him before he left and I am sure that the majority of people at our wedding questioned how it would possibly work out between Hubby and I. We didn't date long before our engagement and he would be gone for our first year and a half of marriage. Well, we proved them all wrong. 

Hubby left in December and to be honest I think the anticipation of the deployment was almost worst than what I have had to endure thus far. Not knowing is the hardest part. When he left I did not want to be moping around Boston, so I got my act together and sucked it up, as much as possible. Somehow, it has already been seven months since he left and somehow we're almost half way through the deployment. Somehow, Hubby and I have made it to our first wedding anniversary without each other. But, when I look back on the past year, I do not look back with sorrow, but I look back and am glad. Even though our first year of marriage has been spent apart, we had the most amazing time together in Hawaii and that is just a taste of what the future holds for Hubby and I. 

If I had to do it all over again, I would never want it any other way. I could not have found a husband more perfect for me than Hubby. He is truly my best friend. I would wait a lifetime for him. 

Happy anniversary hubby.