Deployment Positive Thursday- Week 1

When I had this idea of doing a weekly positive post, I was sure that the first few weeks (and probably some- or all- weeks in between) would be near impossible to dream up.
Honestly this deployment has taken me by surprise. I thought I would be out for the count for a long time after Andrew left, but I've been doing fine. Better than fine. I feel like this is all normal already, which is weird to me. It must be a case of the anticipation being worse than the actual "new normal". I think a lot of my "okay-ness" (yes I just made up that word, get used to it) with this deployment comes from a combination of two sources:

1. Prayer and Support of Family and Friends- this has been overwhelming and I am so thankful for each and every one of you
2. The fact that Andrew wasn't a part of my daily life before he left. We were used to the long distance relationship, so why not add a few more thousand miles between us. Technology makes the world a much smaller place!

Okay so on with my positive for this week: Most of my excitement since Andrew left has come from the fact that I've been able to communicate with him every day so far. I am so thankful for this. My expectations were to maybe hear from him via email once or twice in this first week-- if I was lucky. So BIG checkmark in that box! As long as Andrew has wifi, I get texts (and a video chat every now and again)! And given the situation, I couldn't be happier! I told Andrew the other day: so far this deployment is peanuts compared to Ranger School!

I also have something else (on a slightly smaller scale- but something that has been bothering me for a while, nonetheless) to be happy about; I finally figured out how to let those interested subscribe for email updates (thanks mostly to our engagement picture photographer, and friend, Amy!). I played around with it a little bit and if I did everything right (fingers crossed) all you have to do is enter your email address over there --> on the right where it asks for it and this "feed burner" service will send you an email when I add a new post. I tried it out  and it seems to work, but depending on your email service (gmail, yahoo, etc.) it might show up in your spam or junk folder.