Fellow military spouse here. I feel you're pain, and promise it will get better. We spent 3 years in Italy, and I had my first child there, while we were there I missed the states too but it certainly was a great adventure while we were there. And the language barrier..that brings back some funny memories! Good luck with the olive oil! ;)
It doesn't happen to me very often, but your blog post made my heart swell. I, too, am living in Japan. Okinawa. It is such a beautiful place and you are so right about the people. I will miss the "safety" of this island... seeing kids ~age 5-6 walking home from school and not a care in the world... it's just so SAFE compared to the states. But I do miss Target. Oh Lord, how I miss Target. I had to buy my son shoes at the BX yesterday and we had about 4 choices of tennis shoes. (2 he has already had since being here). *sigh*
We lived in Coronado for 3 months in 2003-2004. It was gorgeous. We had no kids then so we lived in a small (200 sq ft) add-on to someone's garage. Paid $800 but we LOVED it. We actually discussed, before this last deployment, what we would do after this... and I said I wanted to go to Coronado. I always thought it was so neat to see kids riding their bikes to school with their surfboards on the side ;)
My husband is out on the Essex too btw... Thanks for letting me ramble... it really does feel good to "release". (((hugs))) to you!
Fellow military spouse here. I feel you're pain, and promise it will get better. We spent 3 years in Italy, and I had my first child there, while we were there I missed the states too but it certainly was a great adventure while we were there. And the language barrier..that brings back some funny memories! Good luck with the olive oil! ;)
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ReplyDeleteIt doesn't happen to me very often, but your blog post made my heart swell. I, too, am living in Japan. Okinawa. It is such a beautiful place and you are so right about the people. I will miss the "safety" of this island... seeing kids ~age 5-6 walking home from school and not a care in the world... it's just so SAFE compared to the states. But I do miss Target. Oh Lord, how I miss Target. I had to buy my son shoes at the BX yesterday and we had about 4 choices of tennis shoes. (2 he has already had since being here). *sigh*
ReplyDeleteWe lived in Coronado for 3 months in 2003-2004. It was gorgeous. We had no kids then so we lived in a small (200 sq ft) add-on to someone's garage. Paid $800 but we LOVED it. We actually discussed, before this last deployment, what we would do after this... and I said I wanted to go to Coronado. I always thought it was so neat to see kids riding their bikes to school with their surfboards on the side ;)
My husband is out on the Essex too btw... Thanks for letting me ramble... it really does feel good to "release". (((hugs))) to you!