I am new at dealing with my husband being deployed. I was wondering how you pass the time. My hubby and I do everything together so it is just dragging on now that its just me and our son.
We keep busy with playgroups, library and Barnes and noble (most have story times Mon, Thurs and Sat). I found a great group of local military wives and we have kept each other sane. The weekends are the hardest :( Take care!
Your first thing is to not think about it. Just pretend that he is at work for the day, then when night comes pretend hes at work for the night...Thats what I did and our deployment is almost over and it feels like he just left. Stay as busy as possible. If you dont work maybe you can pick up a part time job...or even volunteer at your uso if you have one.
Quoting fairymom2316:I used to take the kids to the park, library, window shop, LOL
We went through our first deployment recently too. If you stay in the house, it makes it worse because your going to be thinking a lot! How old is your son??
My son is 5 months old. I try and go out with other people who have little kids, he loves other kids.
I devoted all my attention to my son. We did playdates, went to the park, played together at home a lot. We had date night (lol) once a pay period where we'd dress up, eat out, and sometimes go to the movies. We shopped occasionally and window shopped alot. We spent time with my friends and their kids. My house stayed spotless because I did a lot of cleaning. Eventually I got into a routine where I still missed my husband, but I had my routine going and just got use to him not being there.
Anyone Stationed in Germany?
- diablo51987
on Nov. 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM