OPERATION HOMELIFE
Welcome Home! Yes, You Live Here Now by Krysta Murray I have actually said those words to my husband more than once. Maybe more. Truly, he shows up from deployment and I have moved all of our belongings to a new house, a new state, a new country. He has been paying rent on a place he never actually stepped foot in yet. Our first deployment was two years into our marriage. Even though he had been away many times for schools or training or underways, it was the first time he would be gone for months on end rather than weeks at a time. How many months was actually not determined by the time he left, and could change anyway. He was also deploying to an active war zone at the time and I’d say we were both pretty stressed about it so I opted to take a semester off from college and move back home for awhile to be near family. I moved back roughly two months before he returned to start my next semester and get us a place to live. I specifically remember needing a new bedroom set and ordering a fairly inexpensive one that was mailed there in about 10 boxes and 200 pieces I had to put together myself. Two nightstands, a chest and dresser with so many drawers to be assembled. A friend and I spent hours surrounded by pieces with the little letter Coronado Magazine
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