Phone Calls

I got to talk to my husband for almost an hour tonight. It was great.

I had just popped a DVD in the player for my mother and me to watch when my phone rang. As my mother recently noted, my phone rings day and night, so I was taken by surprise when his contact info popped up.

In the morning he is headed off to a very hot place.

But tonight we got to laugh together. He always says how much he loves to hear me laugh. Luckily I live a great life so I laugh a lot. See. We're a perfect match.

Actually, I feel closer to my husband now than I ever have before. We've known each other for eighteen years and been happily married for almost twelve, so that's saying a lot. Lately, I've seen him in a new light. A beautiful new light.

I think that every marriage moves through its good times and its bad. But even when we were going through our hardest times I always believed that we would come out the other side with an even stronger marriage than before. I was right.

I feel tremendously supported and understood by the man I love right now. I hope he feels the same.

Phone calls like the one we shared tonight are a gift. I can't imagine how the military wives who came before me made it through with just written letters. Now I carry my cell phone with me everywhere I go so that I'll never miss a chance to hear his voice.