Overdue

Its been almost a year since my last post on this blog. I almost deleted it and then I read my past entries and I decided it would just be wrong to delete them. They reminded me of where I have been in the last year. The trials and tribulations. The uphill journey to get here, where I am today. I started writing this 8 weeks into Jeremiah's deployment and thank god its over. It ended on March 13. 13 days later we got married. It was the happiest day of my life, still doesn't really feel like it was a little over 2 months ago. It feels forever ago. My life has just been one big blur in the last year. I did my student teaching for history last fall, one of the best experiences I have ever had. I loved my students and they taught me so much about life. Life was coming at them fast and they took it head on and still walked around with a smile on. I thought going through a deployment was hard but what these kids were going through was a million times worse. I attempted a marathon, and failed miserably. I made it to mile 19 and then sat down on a curb. I got taken to a hospital and then spent the next few months fighting with the insurance company and the hospital to get my bill paid. Never fear I got it accomplished. On December 28th Jeremiah finally came home for his r&r. :) They were two of the best weeks of my life. I spent every second I could with him, and then towards the end of our 2 weeks together we decided to get married on April 2nd. Which later changed to March 26th instead. So as soon as he left I began frantically planning this crazy thing called a wedding. It was January 14th and I had an entire wedding to plan in just over 2 months. We had a tight budget but we made it work. Being so busy with all the wedding planning helped to distract me from how much I was missing my soon-to-be husband. What also helped was that I got to talk to him almost everyday. Many days I would get up around 6 just to talk to him for a few minutes before I had to get ready for class. The day he came home was the best day of my life (well besides the wedding day!)! I had dinner with a couple of the other gfs/wives and then spent the rest of the evening with another wife. I got no sleep that night, so when he came marching in at 6 AM, I had been up for almost 24 hours. I was more tired than he was. I actually had to ask to take a nap after we got settled into his barracks room. We spent a few nights at my house with no heat and no running water. We tied up the last few loose ends for our wedding. That weekend was his bachelor party, and yes I attended... well I attended the prebachelor party, the real one came a few days later when the man in charge of the party finally got home from Afghanistan. Yeah we weren't cutting that close or anything... literally 13 days from the time Jeremiah got home to the time we tied the knot. Our wedding was wonderful. I couldn't have asked for a more special day. I really couldn't have done it without Karley, Caitlin, Lauren, Jessica, Evan, Gina, Liz, and the entire sorority for helping to pull off such an amazing event. It was definitely a day to remember. I will go into more detail about the wedding in another post. We honeymooned at Disney World which really was the perfect choice for us. It was carefree and soooo much fun! And then we returned to our regular lives... if you want to call them regular. He was still on leave so he just bummed around and enjoyed his vacation. I had to figure out how to catch up on all the classes I had missed, especially Calculus which was now extremely confusing to me. I was behind on all my research projects and I was struggling to keep my head above water. I really couldn't have done it without Jeremiah. And now here we are. I am now a college graduate, working at Walmart, and absolutely loving being a wife to Jeremiah. He just makes life fun and interesting.
Speaking of interesting... We are going for a hike to Ampersand tomorrow which is a mountain in the Adirondacks, should be fun! Well off to bed and waiting for the hubby to come home from his guard shift.