Hello friends and family from Afghanistan. I figured that although I can't physically be with L and the kids this Mother's Day I can at least give her the very public praise she greatly deserves. I am hoping that this post turns out OK, and I that I don't mess up some part of the Blog that L maintains.
So as most of you know L and I have been married for five years, going on 6 this fall, and I am the luckiest man alive. For those great five years have been the best of my life. However, they have not been the easiest. I have been gone for a total of two years for combat deployments, numerous months of field exercises, and in the last eight years I have only been home for one of her birthdays. Although L did not choose the military directly she has stood by me through the last eight years of service as my cornerstone and sounding board. During these past five years of marriage she has also given me the ultimate gift in the form of the ever growing and curious Greyson, and our beautiful daughter Peyton. In my kids lives I was lucky enough to be home for most of Greyson's first two years, but as you all know I will have missed 90 percent of Peyton's first year of life. So it should come with no surprise that I will be leaving the military after 8 years of service to find a job in the civilian sector, and frankly L deserves to have a husband who is actually home. We joke that we don't know how we are going to handle a three day business trip to New York...(how hard is that really!)
L you are the most amazing and strongest woman I have ever met. You were my college crush, and you still are today. I love more with each passing day, and I look forward to growing old with you! Our lives have been interesting over the last few years with multiple moves, and changing jobs for me, but you have always been one thing my perfect partner. I am the luckiest man alive.
When it comes to parenting I can take very little credit for our how wonderful, smart, and perfect our children our. You are the most caring, compassionate, and loving mother any child could ever have. Over the last year you have helped Greyson become potty trained, and when Peyton takes her first steps it will be solely your doing! For the last year you have been a single parent who has successfully juggled two kids under the age of 5 while still putting yourself through your Masters Degree. I have no idea how you do it, I doubt I could, but it is just another thing about you that amazes me.
L I know that I can't put fully into words how much you mean to me. I look forward to being a complete family soon, and taking some of the burden that this deployment has placed on you off your shoulders. I love you, I miss you, and I can't wait to be a parent to our children with you!
Your K
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