ashleighannb

Afghanistan. This will be our first deployment. My plan all along has been to focus of school, works hard to achieve my ultimate goal(BSN!) and raise our son. Unfortunately I have no friends or family here yet. We've only been here for two months. We will be attending the FRG(family readiness group) meetings in the months that follow and I plan on meeting other wives whose husband's will be deployed with mine. I was reading through another thread earlier about a single mother in my shoes and a user posted, "You just have to DO IT!" I'm learning quickly that really is all you can do. When he comes home from war, I want him to be proud of me, just as I will be of him. I'm not the Army wife who is going to sit around for year. I have to be productive or I will go stir crazy. Military wives never get the respect they rightfully deserve! It is a tough job. It's not for everyone. We're the glue that holds every.little.thing.together. :) As far as skype.... I do that weekly with one of my hs friends whose husband is active duty AF. They're stationed in Okinawa, Japan. It's great! We call it our "girl time". Ha

I am in need of support and words of wisdom from experienced women. I am a mother of an 18m old and an Army wife. I will begin my first semester of pre-nursing curriculum in the Spring of 11'. I have a very manageable load with only 9 credit hours of pre-reqs in the Spring, 3 in the Summer & 9 in the Fall. My husband will be deploying in February of next year, just 1 month into me going back to school and will be absent from our lives for one year. I can't lie and say I'm not terrified of all the "what ifs" that keep playing on repeat! I want nothing more than to succeed. I'm a very driven young woman. Advice? Tips? Anything KIND is appreciated. :)