a huge weight has been lifted

Maybe massive is a better word... I don't know, you tell me:

I've spent the last few months stressed out knowing Daniel's first deployment was looming around the corner.

We've known about it for almost two years, and it was driving me crazy. I spent every day thinking only a few more months of this sunshine and bonding before he is gone for a year. It was pretty depressing since we have never been through a deployment together before.

As a family we decided that we would store everything and move in with family during the deployment, but I was having a hard time with it because I love Hawaii. As much as I love our family, and am incredibly grateful they invited us into their home, I dreamed about living in Hawaii since high school. I have friends I love, am in school and was just settled.

When I finally accepted that we'd be moving, I found a great deal on a POD and tried to reserve it for $50 off the normal price.

The very next day, there was legitimate talk about the deployment being postponed.

WHAT?

I left my computer (the source of all my news) and started folding plastic bags into triangles.

No really...

Triangles.

Or footballs if you prefer, since it is same way you'd make a paper football.

I didn't know what to do with myself. So I did what any Army wife would do: wait to talk to my husband. Luckily it wasn't a long wait, less than 24 hours.

Even though I knew, I didn't want to make any kind of public announcement on our blog until the official notice, and even then I waited two weeks to make sure.

It has been cancelled and I couldn't be happier!

picture by b of la brisa photography

Can I just say I'm thrilled to be spending the next year and a half in Hawaii with my little family?

All we need to do is work on shipping our cat out here and everything will be just perfect!