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He came home

November 6, 2014 by Aprille 7 Comments

And now the deployments seem like barely a blip on our timeline. A distant memory that only seems strong when I’m Already There comes on the radio and at Christmastime when the music on Pandora reminds me of the three Christmases tinged by separation from the one I love.

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Posted in: Christmas, Family, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: christmas, deployment, homecoming, pandora

The Best of Five Years

March 9, 2013 by Aprille 12 Comments

Yesterday was our 5th anniversary. Five years is a pretty big deal. We’ve been through a lot in those five years. We’ve spent two of those years apart. It’s been a long five years. But, as hard as they have been, they have been a good five years. I would like to commemorate this event … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Christmas, Family, Marriage, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: anniversary, beach, christmas, deployment, homecoming, honeymoon, marriage

Reintegration – Guest Posts at Singing Through the Rain

May 16, 2012 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I recently had the opportunity to do some guest-blogging over at Singing Through the Rain, the blog of a dear friend of mine who is an Airforce spouse. Her husband was getting ready to return from a six-month overseas deployment and she was asking about what to expect – both what she could expect personally, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Military and Veteran Life Tagged: army, deployment, guest-blogs, homecoming, military, reintegration

Life Is Beautiful

February 25, 2012 by Aprille 4 Comments

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built. Mary Anne Radmacher January and February have been very full months for our family. Full of ordinary days and ordinary moments. They have been fun and relaxing, but busy as well. Ordinary, busy, relaxing, and beautiful… My husband … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Birthdays, Travel Tagged: birthday, birthdays, church, cuddles, Ezra, family, fatherhood, getaway, homecoming, hoodies, hugs, love, park, reintegration, snow, valentines-day, zoo

After All

January 20, 2012 by Aprille 3 Comments

My husband came home from Afghanistan on New Years Eve! This deployment lasted 353 days apart total, lasting from December 29, 2010 to December 31, 2011. It was one long year! My husband’s career in the military will be ending in 2013, so we are blessed knowing that we are done with deployments – this … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: deployment, homecoming, video

“So how was your RnR?”

September 24, 2011 by Aprille 14 Comments

This is the question that I’ve been hearing a lot this week! And it’s a good question. But it’s one that in some ways I don’t know how to answer with a quick reply. Words like great, awesome, and wonderful are indeed true…but so are words like hard, emotional, and difficult. But those are words … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Military and Veteran Life Tagged: deployment, homecoming, photos, RnR

pink ribbons, camouflage, and one happy baby boy!

September 14, 2011 by Aprille 11 Comments

Monday, September 5th, 2011…what most people knew as Labor Day. What I knew is that it was the day my husband was coming home for mid-tour leave!!! I woke up at 3am totally unable to sleep because of the butterflies. I was awake for a while and then fell back to sleep. I woke up … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: airport, army, deployment, flu, homecoming, RnR

Reasons I enjoy deployment

April 2, 2011 by Aprille 7 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog post for my friend Kathryn about deployment. One of the things that I encouraged her to do in that post was to “enjoy the deployment.” Shortly thereafter she responded on her blog by writing a post entitled “Reasons to Enjoy a TDY.” I enjoyed reading her … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Military and Veteran Life Tagged: army, deployment, healthy eating, homecoming, Russ, sleeping in, tv shows

One More Day

June 19, 2010 by Aprille 1 Comment

A year ago today I woke up with butterflies in my stomach and thoughts of anticipation…my husband was coming home from Afghanistan!!! Everything was clean and set up for his arrival…all I had to do was wait. We had spent close to a year apart (and I hadn’t seen him for 9 months), and I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Marriage, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: deployment, diamond rio, homecoming, one more day, redeployment, reintegration

Update June 2009

July 2, 2009 by Aprille Leave a Comment

wow…amazingly original title…ha! No I’m just tired and can’t think of anything better. Russ has been home for almost 2 weeks now!! (If you haven’t already, make your way over to the HOMECOMING page for some more details and pictures.) I’m just going to *attempt* to put the emotions of the last two weeks into … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Military and Veteran Life, Miscellaneous Tagged: army, deployment, homecoming, redeployment, reintegration
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