Hubby leaves next week

[mylo]

**Prayers please

…hubby just left by taxi for the airport…this is just so much…

I feel like… like someone being dumped in the middle of the ocean and told to swim…maybe you’ll find a shore…maybe you’ll drown…maybe a shark will eat you, or only half eat you… oh, and strap an innocent, dependent baby on board for the ride:crying:

I’m going to bed. I hope I can at least get a bit of sleep…tomorrow is going to be a long day.
**

:hug1: Praying for you!

 

[yessisan]

Malia!!! I’m so sorry!!! :hug1: I’ll be praying for you and Lily!! :hug1:

 

[Feanaro_s_Wife]

Could you all please say an extra prayer for my DH tonight? I spoke with him this evening and he is having a really rough time right now. Hopefully things will get easier as the course starts up and he’ll have his daily routine…but right now all he can do is miss home. He has NEVER been away from Lily before and I think his heart is breaking

**And please pray that he can focus and do well so that this isn’t all for nothing! The first part of the course is going to be EMT training and if you don’t do well in that then you get booted off the course… so now he is extra stressed as that is something that he has no experience in.

He has always done well in any course he’s taken so, if he can just focus, I know he’ll do great!
**

 

[Brenda_V]

**Prayers please

…hubby just left by taxi for the airport…this is just so much…

I feel like… like someone being dumped in the middle of the ocean and told to swim…maybe you’ll find a shore…maybe you’ll drown…maybe a shark will eat you, or only half eat you… oh, and strap an innocent, dependent baby on board for the ride:crying:

I’m going to bed. I hope I can at least get a bit of sleep…tomorrow is going to be a long day.
**

and

more :console:

 

[rayne89]

Praying for you (and your hubby & Lily too).

 

[Nechasin]

I will be praying for you. Although I haven’t been away for as long as your husband, I have been away for 4 weeks at a time and I understand. It is difficult. For a good father there is nothing that I can say that can make it better. I will stress that you need to help make it easier on your husband and try not to blame him for being away. It is hard on both the husband and the wife. I am facing something similar in January where I will be away from Jan to May with only a long weekend home every 3-4 weeks. He will be able to make it through it.

I know that ya’ll talked about getting a laptop. Did they work out yet? If you need any help setting up Skype please PM me. I have video setup between my home computer and my laptop with Skype and we tested it out when my wife and I were in the hospital for the birth of my youngest it it is really great to be able to see the kids.

Again both you and your husband are in my thoughts and prayers. Just remember it is hard for your husband to be away, but I think you already understand that. I pray that you get the support that you need while he is away so that you can be understanding of his needs also.

 

[coleraine]

**
He is trying to find out what kind of resources the base there has… we wanted to get him a laptop for the course but we can’t afford it right now**

i think at walmart you can get one for like 300 bucks but it cant do much. but it does e-mails and stuff-enough to keep in touch.

 

[Feanaro_s_Wife]

I will be praying for you. Although I haven’t been away for as long as your husband, I have been away for 4 weeks at a time and I understand. It is difficult. For a good father there is nothing that I can say that can make it better. I will stress that you need to help make it easier on your husband and try not to blame him for being away.

Obviously, being military, he has been away from home for extended periods before…so I think that is why this has hit him so hard. He thought it would be the same…but not now that he is a daddy. Parenthood changes a person. I can’t even imagine having to be away from our DD so I can really empathize with him.

And I certainly don’t blame him for being away. I wish things could be different for sure though… like why can’t he be trained here? Or why did they have to change the course from 3 months to 8 right at the moment hubby got accepted??? Or why can’t I be healthy so that neither of us have to worry about how things are here at home? etc etc etc… but I know that this will be good for him and good for us as a family.

It is hard on both the husband and the wife. I am facing something similar in January where I will be away from Jan to May with only a long weekend home every 3-4 weeks. He will be able to make it through it.
**
I am sorry you will have to be away from your family too. Make good use of those long weekends**

I know that ya’ll talked about getting a laptop. Did they work out yet?

Yes, he was able to get one with the money they allotted him for having to move. We tried out video chat last night and it will be great for him and Lily.
**
Again both you and your husband are in my thoughts and prayers. Just remember it is hard for your husband to be away, but I think you already understand that. I pray that you get the support that you need while he is away so that you can be understanding of his needs also.
**
Thank you so much

i think at walmart you can get one for like 300 bucks but it cant do much. but it does e-mails and stuff-enough to keep in touch.

**like I said above, we got one… we needed one with good video chat capabilities otherwise it would have been pointless.
**

 

[whatevergirl]

Could you all please say an extra prayer for my DH tonight? I spoke with him this evening and he is having a really rough time right now. Hopefully things will get easier as the course starts up and he’ll have his daily routine…but right now all he can do is miss home. He has NEVER been away from Lily before and I think his heart is breaking

**And please pray that he can focus and do well so that this isn’t all for nothing! The first part of the course is going to be EMT training and if you don’t do well in that then you get booted off the course… so now he is extra stressed as that is something that he has no experience in.

He has always done well in any course he’s taken so, if he can just focus, I know he’ll do great!
**

Oh, I’m sorry, Malia. Praying for you, and your hubby!

 

[kage_ar]

As much as you can - maybe if you sound/talk very upbeat, “we miss you,but, it is fun being girls only” - he will worry less and focus on the EMT stuff.

Help him to laugh (and we will be here to listen to the “real” side of things for awhile).

 

[Brenda_V]

As much as you can - maybe if you sound/talk very upbeat, “we miss you,but, it is fun being girls only” - he will worry less and focus on the EMT stuff.

Help him to laugh (and we will be here to listen to the “real” side of things for awhile).

Oh - great idea kage_ar, you know we are here for you as much as we can be! I spend an awful lot of time sitting here working on Avon and just reading CAF, no reason I can’t get AIM up and running and do real - time chat with you.

Brenda V.