Happy Military Spouse Appreciation Day

To all my fellow Military wives..We deserve this day! Isn't it nice to have a day for us..for just being a military spouse?

We're the ones that get the call at 6pm from our husbands saying "sorry honey, won't be coming home tonight" when we had just put the finsihing touches on a nice romantic evening with them.

We're the ones left behind. The 'single mothers' for years at a time. We are everything to our kids, mother, father, for a year at a time.

The ones that have to fix the cars and house and mow the grass.

The ones that have to drop off our husbands so they can go to a war zone then come home to an empty house and be strong and not cry until the kids go to bed, so they don't get upset.

The ones that don't get a call for days and days on end and have to stay strong and believe everything is okay. I can't begin to explain how stressful it is to try to will your husband to call, just so you can hear his voice and know it's all okay.

We're the ones at home all alone during one of the most stressful times in our life without our spouses there.

I cant accuratly tell you all the emotions military spouses feel. How scared we feel before our husbands leave, How scary it is to be all alone, our husband 1,000 miles away and hear a weird noise at night and not have them here to 'protect us'

We're the ones that lay in bed at night crying, praying, that our husbands are safe, sleeping well, eating good and are happy.

We are also the ones who get to go see those beautiful white busses. We are the ones that get to stand there and wait for them to say "RELEASE" We're the ones that get to grab our husband on that beautiful homecoming day and have him back again1 And that truly is a beautiful, beautiful day. We get the privlidge of being there that day. The day my husband comes home are the most awesome days ever!! Those homecoming ceremonies are such a beautiful, powerful atmosphere.

So to all the military spouses out there, We deserve this day! We should stand proud and celebrate today bc we do what many other people can't/won't. We stand by our men through thick and thin. We are strong and courageous.

We are what keeps our soldiers going.

HOOAH!