Dry Run

The next two weeks are going to suck extremely bad. Rob is leaving for some field training exercises and he will be gone for two weeks (no weekends home). What am I going to do with myself for two whole weeks? I have yet to figure that out and really don't want the time for him to go to come.

Rob and I have established field rules that we apply by. We look at field time as a dry run for deployment. Two weeks is no where close to being a year, but it helps looking at it as a a dry run. We don't talk on the phone or text hardly at all, some nights he calls and some nights he doesn't. We do this so that I can get used to not having him constantly call me and I am able to function with just Bobby by myself.

I welcome field time because it is good training for both Rob and I. He gets the training that will be essential to their mission overseas and I get to be able to "train" for my mission here at home. It's not going to be easy doing it by myself with two kids, but if I can get used to doing it with one child, I know I can do two. The Army may be a pain in the butt when it comes to field time (I will be the first to say that it's true), but it is really how you look at it. I am blessed that Rob won't spend all his time in the field before he deploys and that I will have him as much as the Army allows me to.