Today should have been a great day. Zach had his promotion ceremony for finishing 5th grade and moving on the Middle School. He received an award for maintaining a 4.0 gpa for the whole school year. That means alot to me since he's the one that has struggled the most with this deployment. Tyson also got 3 awards at school for his academic excellence (he is also a straight A student). So why was it not a good day? Ron wasn't here to see it, again. I sat there all alone clapping for my kids surrounded by all these other moms and dads.
Then today was a very important day for Ron. He has been a company commander for over 2 years now. Average command length is 12 - 18 months. Ron served for 27 months. Today was his last day as commander. He handed over the company to a new commander. There is a whole ceremony where he passes the company flag to the new commander. The whole company is there and stands at attention. The outgoing commander (Ron) gets to say a few words in goodbye to his unit. It's a really moving ceremony. I was there when he was given that flag to carry and I missed him handing that flag off. I missed it. I should have been there. These are the things that military wives look forward too. But I wasn't there for it. I couldn't be there for Ron and he couldn't be here for our kids.
So, this was a hard day for me. Only one more week till Ron gets here. Can't happen soon enough for me.
2 comments:
Yes, they are. Stay Strong. How are you kids dealing with this? Mine only have to endure a 7month deployment. You are amazing to deal with the extra long deployments.
Happy to hear that your time apart is only a week away!! I totally know the feeling of going to everything without your hubby, I'm living through all of that now, it stinks...only 8 more months to go and I just take one day at a time, sometime one hour at a time!
Shane will be in command for a total of 24 months(13 more months to go) I think then length of command depends what type of unit they are in command of and many other factors like deployments, MOS, etc. I've learned there is really nothing "normal" in the Army!
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