In the spirit of Lifetime's Army Wives season premiere...

I recently found a blog for Christian Military Wives and I am SO loving the encouragement from these ladies. I feel as a military wife it is CRUCIAL for me to stay encouraged especially by wives who actually understand what I (as a wife to a soldier) go through...Deployments (not yet, but soon), field training, knowing that my husband will be jumping out of an airplane today/tonight...etc. It can be draining worrying about your husband day after day when he leaves in the morning just to go to work. As an Army Wife I know that I play a very important role. I am the one left behind when my husband goes to the battlefield to take care of EVERYTHING...kids, dishes, cleaning, shopping, getting the oil changed in our cars, reaching for stuff on the top shelf, taking the trash out...It's the little things that I have taken for granted when he is home because he does most of these or at least helps me with them...except for maybe the cleaning part. :o) When I feel that my husband and I are about to engage in a knock-down drag-out "discussion" sometimes it takes all I have to sit back and think "I do not need to be wasting these moments with him by arguing..." It's a sad reality, but it's my reality.

I am SO proud of my husband and how far he has come since we got married! As cliche as it sounds..he really is my hero! I cry over silly country songs about soldiers that I never cried over before, I got chill bumps at his infantry graduation when the guys in his platoon yelled the infantryman's creed, and I was so excited for him the first time I saw him jump out of a C-130 and gently float back down to earth that I wanted to run back and forth in front of the bleachers, as the other spouses and family members watched their own loved ones, and scream to the top of my lungs, "THAT'S MY HUSBAND!!!!!!!" The pride & excitement you feel is so incredibly overwhelming!

I am proud to be the wife of an American Soldier!

Army Wife Creed

I am the wife of an American Soldier.
I am a supporter of the United States Army -
an encouragement for the protectors of the greatest nation on earth.
Because I am proud of my husband and the  uniform that he wears,
I will always act in ways creditable to him, the military service
and the nation he is sworn to gaurd.
I am proud of my husband. I will do all that I can to protect
and provide for my family in his absence. I will be loyal to my
husband and to the vows that we made as we entered the
covenant of marriage.
I will do my full part to carry on the values
and goals we have set apart for our family
and I will continue to instruct our children in the same manner.
As a soldier's wife, I realize that I play a vital role
in my husband's decision to become a member of a time-honored profession -
that I am doing my share to keep alive the principles of freedom
for which my country stands.
No matter what situation I am in, I will never do anything,
for pleasure, profit, or personal safety,
which will disgrace my husband, his uniform or our country.
I will use every means I have to encourage my husband to be
the best soldier that he can be.
I am proud of my husband, my country and its flag.
I will fly the flag and will always remember the sacrafices
made by my husband and by generations of men and women
that have served our beloved country.
I will try to make my husband proud of the
manner in which I accept his decision to defend my freedom and
the freedom of all American citizens -
for I am the wife of an American soldier.