In just about 10 weeks, everything will change!
I'm actually kind of lucky right now. I don't have to worry if yummy leftovers will be there next time I open the fridge. I can sit in any spot on the couch. I can take 40 minutes getting ready for bed, or have popcorn for dinner. The thermostat and the remote are all mine! (Ok, so I share the remote with Rylee, haha!) When Mike gets back, its all going to be different.
After all the lonely nights and frustrations and missing my hubby/friend it seems strange to know there is a kind of a downside to the end of deployment. Rylee and I have our routines pretty much down pat, and I rule the roost! She and I do things our way, but soon we will have to work with someone who does things his way! Where do I step up or compromise? When do I tell him to back off or teach him our routines?
Its actually a little scary. Once Mike steps into the house we have to start learning to live together again! Ugh! And its not just me and Mike, its also Rylee, who has been without dad more time than she has been with him.
It would be nice to think that everything will just fall into place perfectly. Rylee will bond with dad like he never left, I will have the kitchen spotless every day by 5:30, and Mike will do all the activities with me that I've been missing out on. Oh, I wish! I'm sure we are going to butt heads about more than one thing many times each day. My leftovers might get scarfed. My prime TV spot might get taken. Mike might fall asleep before I mosey over to bed and, shocker, he might expect a proper dinner!
The one thing I know is, that, no matter what things are like when deployment ends, Mike and I have been through super-crappy-stressfull-will-this-ever-end stuff before and made it through. Marriage is a relationship that will never not need work. Lazy people need not apply for marriage! It might take some trial and error, but we are in this for the long haul and being together and working things out is a whole lot better than being apart.
