Saying goodbye never gets easier.

I know it's been a while since I've posted. Things have been a bit crazy lately. Matthew &  I have both gone through some pretty big changes - he graduated BMT and I graduated college. May's been pretty good to us. Matthew got his language: Korean. He's pretty excited about it. He starts at the DLI July 10, and will graduate from there November 5, 2015. That's quite a long time in Cali, and we are definitely okay with it! After that he will go to Goodfellow for several months and then to SERE training for about a month. After that we will finally get to go to our first duty station (either Nebraska, Arizona, or Japan).

One thing I've really learned is that saying goodbye never gets easier. I got to come down to San Antonio for Memorial Day weekend and I stayed on base. Matthew didn't get to stay overnight with me, but we spent from 4 am to 11 pm together (except for today because accountability was earlier). It was an amazing four days together. We were super lazy most of the time and it was awesome! I really thought that since I said goodbye back in March and then again at the beginning of May, it would be easier this time. So as I was dropping Matthew off at his squadron, I really thought that I wouldn't cry or anything. WRONG. As soon as I drove away, I started crying. And I cried some more when I got back to my hotel room. And I'm sure I'll cry on the drive home tomorrow.

I suppose in a way I'm lucky though. I'm so in love with Matthew and we have such a great marriage that it makes it so hard to be away from each other. Not everyone gets so lucky. And I am so thankful for everything that Matthew has done for us. He is working so hard and doing so well in the Air Force, and I admire him so much. I hope to be half the person that he is. I truly do.