I'm sitting here with my husband as he watches tv and feeds our son. The show he's watching featured a child walking up a mountain who had reached his "turn around point." When I heard that phrase, it made me think about everything we've been through. This process and experience has not been easy for him. He got a phone call in Hawai'i when he first started his deployment and learned he would be a father. A phone call for that news! a phone call! And after recieving that news, he couldn't come back to Alabama and go to the first ultrasound and "get use" to a growing child. He missed ultrasound after ultrasound and he missed feeling Ryder move so many times. When he finally did come back to Alabama it was because I was admitted into the hospital, for a second time, and we got married. One month later, he had a son. These are 2 HUGE things in life that men (and women) usually have time to adjust to. Heck, I had time to adjust to it, but Pat never got that. I know he's happy now but I can't help but wonder if there was ever a moment where he thought he had hit his turn around point. I don't know if he did or not, but regardless, he never turned around, he never ran away, and he stayed faithful when it would have been so easy to just leave or not come back. I am forever thankful to my loving husband. He has been so helpful through it all...even when he was all the way on the other side of the world. He is the best husband and is such a loving father, God has blessed me so much that I can't even begin to explain it all.
Anyway...this is the start of our ever after and we're loving every single minute of it...
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