Holy Smokes!!

A few things have been going through my mind in the last couple of days.
Brad and I have been counting down the days till he gets to leave, and I've been counting down till I leave. He wrote me an email thismoring ( a short and sweet one ) saying that he most likely wont be online for the next day or two. He then explained that after his last night at work (Friday night) that he would go back 'home' pack up and then leave very early in the morning to start his adventure to Ireland.
This is really going to happen. I am going to meet my husband in Ireland. I will be getting on a plane to go and see him in this beautiful foreign country.

I was just looking at the most recent picture I tagged myself in of brad from a fellow solider. Brad looks like he is deep in thought or staring off into space. one or the other. But it crossed my mind "I am going to be seeing this in just a few short days!" I know this is probably very redundant, but imagine not seeing your loved one for 8 months, and then fathom reuniting with them. How do you see it?
Hopefully, if all goes to plan, Brad will get there a day ahead of me so he can ride down with the McQuistons to pick me up from the airport.
Am I going to be looking out and waiting for him? Will he find me and surprise me from behind? I know for sure I am going to cry, but will I laugh? I wont want to let him go. Its hard to imagine how its all going to go down.

I am reading this wonderful book, The Homefront Club, written by a Navy wife. Within one chapter, she wrote about how HER homecoming looked like and how HIS homecoming looked like. I realize this isn't brad's homecoming, but its the closest thing we have to relate to right now. She had said that her vision was having her and the kids dressed to the 9's, no one else around. Having a great 'classic' reuniting of the family, getting in the pretty and nicely washed SUV and then going and getting ice cream like nothing had happened. HIS vision was sneaking into the house in the middle of the night, unannounced, going to each bed room and kissing the kids, as if they hadn't been separated for a year. he slipped into bed with his wife ( and she didn't freak out that a strange body was getting into bed with her ) and they cuddled . .. the end.
So, I could have one vision of how seeing Brad for the first time is going to be, but more than likely, Brad has a completely different vision. I would like to pick HIM up from the airport, but I think that's going to be harder than I initially thought. Besides, I've picked him up enough in the past from airports, its his time to pick ME up. :-)
am I going to run to him? i don't even know what the Dublin airport is like, will we have a big audience? Will people think "whoa, those crazy Americans!" lol. who cares what other people think.

I'm just so stinkin excited to see my husband, its unreal.
Horray!!

hearts

So I am doing this bootcamp class, and after class one of my fellow bootcampers approached me and asked me what kind of surgery I had. It cracks me up to hear the different lines people come up to ask about my scar. Not only do you reallllly have to look because these days its not very noticable, but they want to be really nice about it. The most common one is "Did you have surgery?" or "I dont want to be rude, but what happened to your chest?" lol. Thank you for being proper and correct.

Anyway, this young woman asked me all sorts of questions about my heart and my defect and what was going on, what I was cleared for. It was kinda cool. So anyway, they are going to bring their stethascopes to bootcamp tmrw and listen to my heart. They wanted me to bring my story to camp tmrw so they read up about it.
She asked me a question I had never thought about. Yes, I am ok to HAVE children and it most likely wont be an issue or a very high risk pregnancy. Her question was that what is the likely-hood of my children having this defect that I had!? That never crossed my mind.

two weeks and two days till I leave for Ireland. Actually, not even that. I have 15 days till I leave for chicago. That same afternoon, I leave for Belfast. :-) Its going to be here before I know it. holy cow. I haven't seen my husband in close to 8 months. To see him for the first time, its going to be unreal. Sooo cool.

I'll be sure to blog before I leave. But then I'll be M.I.A for about 3 weeks.

kaley

:-)
Dear kaley . . .
Christine shared with me tonight while we were skyping that you also read my blog from time to time! Here is your shout out! THANK YOU!! lol

So now I have all of 4 people that I know of that actually read this! Thank you Kaley. Thank you Christine. Thank you Alan and Thank you Nicole!! I have 4 fans! whoooo hoooooo!!

Special Experience

I got to experience something pretty special this evening while picking up Debbie at the airport. One of the army men, Matt Dunn, made it back to Billings tonight and met his family at the airport. I didn't go in and witness it, but tears fell from my eyes from sitting in the car. There were balloons and family and tears and good times. Lots of on lookers and spectators.
This got me thinking about what my reuniting with Brad will be like. There won't be anything like this. It will just be me. meeting him. no balloons, no family. Just he and I! Just the way I want it. I have 3 weeks till I leave to go and see him.
Debbie made the comment on our way back to her house tonight saying "Megan, you better have lots of things to read or do on the plane to Ireland. That's going to be the longest trip of your life!" Ain't that the truth?

anyway, I just got home and wanted to blog about it. I'm also considering contacting the lifetime television station, for the Coming Home tv series for when our guys get home. Wouldn't that be cool to have their coming home ceremony televised? I think so. lol.

goodnight all