Status Updates From I'll Be Home For Christmas ...

And then she was there, her face pressed to his neck, her arms tight around him. A shudder rocketed through her. Grief, happiness, sorrow. A thousand emotions ripped through him, tearing at his heart and blocking his throat. He froze for a moment, not really believing that she was there, in his arms. For the first time in months, he was holding his wife. And at that moment, nothing else mattered.

But instead, he sat there, staring up at the stars. He wasn’t a praying man. But he sat there, looking at the night sky unable to think of anything except how tore up Garrison had looked in that hospital bed. A whispered plea crossed his lips. “Please, let him be okay.” His voice broke. His eyes burned. And after a while, when he was empty and raw, he wiped his eyes, brushed off his pants, and went back to work.

... Then the time he had left was going to be spent making his wife laugh. Because try though he might, he couldn't shake the quiet dread that had settled in the pit of his stomach that tonight was the last night of normalcy he had on this earth. I feel like crying already!

I love the way this series gives such a realistic look into how hard it is for soldiers on deployment & the families they leave behind