1. What is one of the things you always do special when your husband returns from a deployment?
Luckily we only have had one deployment thus far and I am praying not another, but I took weeks to find the cutest outfit. My favorite part was make up for all the things he missed. I decorated our hotel room, set up "Christmas" a month late due to him being gone, and got some food and drinks for the hotel room so we could relax!
2. What do you do to help your spouse and/or yourself re-adjust after a deployment or long separation?
After deployment it is time to relearn each other, with us we had a very tough road as newly married people just beginning our married life after a year apart. I would say the number 1 thing is to include them in planning things and allow them to readjust. For those of you who haven't been through a deployment homecoming your mil spouse might not want to be in crowded places for awhile so plan to stay low key. It is a very transitional phase so enjoy down time and reconnect!! A year people change a lot and adding all they go through while deployed it really changes them so it is a time to relearn one another and get your relationship back on track. GIVE UP your Independence and strength that you must have during deployment and allow yourself to PARTNER with your mil spouse again. It is a key element to reconnecting.
3. Are you a crazy coupon clipper?
No, I would like to be! Any of you girls have any tips??
4. What's your most treasured memory of you and your spouse (not counting your wedding - that's a given)?
Christmas morning 2008 when he proposed. Just me and him and our own little Christmas in our cute little apartment with our little Liberty. It was special times just between us. We haven't got to share a Christmas like that since. 2009 he was deployed and 2010 we lived in TX so we went home to CA and shared with family but didn't get our time in our home. Looking forward to getting that again.
5. If you could live anywhere overseas, what would you pick and why?
Germany, so I cold learn more about my family history or Europe, so I could travel the country side. Either work for me!
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