DUTY!

So the Marine Corp has this lovely little thing called Duty. All marine spouses love this...actually, not really! We all hate it! Hear that Marine Corp...we hate it!!! For those of you who are not familiar with it pretty much our men in uniform leave us for 24 hours. Of course it is no deployment...but it is one of those things that happens at least twice a month where you can't sleep next to your hubby. They spend those 24 hours making sure that the single marines who stay in the barracks are not raising havoc. They walk around, inspect, look for any suspicious things, hang out in the office and get to nap for 4 hours. That is pretty much of what it consists of, and some of us are not so lucky that our husbands get called to duty at the last minute. I have yet to experience that since we've tied the knot, but it did happen once when I came down from school to spend time with Moses and he had to leave me in the middle of a movie because "the few, the proud" were ordering him to come back. So pretty much I am up late because I cannot sleep. My pup is passed out on the couch with me while I type away. It is so hard for me to shut the lights off and call it a good night sleep when I don't have my hubby next to me...really makes me wonder how I'll do when he starts deploying again... ugh! I know I should rest, I have a LONG day tomorrow... work from 8:30am-5:30pm then school from 6pm-9:15pm... gees... I gotta go to sleep...but I had to write a little blurb on how much I despise duty! I love my husband, he's my hero, I am so proud of what he does and all that he has already done for this country, but I just want him home...I guess it'll just have to wait 'til tomorrow. Peace!