Almost Afghanistan

Just as the title explains.  My Dear Husband almost got sent over to Afghanistan for this coming March.  While it was assumed that he was going, I was freaking out a little bit.  I would be home, alone, with two small children for the better part of 9 months, which is how long the tour would have been.

Needless to say, now that he isn't going, I'm quite please.  The only good thing to come out of  a tour overseas is really the increase in money coming in.  We would have been great financially, but to me money isn't really worth the possibility of losing my husband. 

I guess that's very selfish of me.  Sometimes, I just want to be selfish, though.  He's my husband, and I wanted him home and not anywhere else.  If he would have gone, he would have missed our daughter's first day of school, a pretty big milestone for her.  I have grown up with a father in the forces, and the amount of things that he couldn't be there for...  there's no words for it.

I respect every single person who does go overseas, and everyone who has family.  You are doing what you need to do.  I'm just glad that I don't have to watch my husband go away.