An Extra Year

Today, April 23, is kind of a surreal day for us. If we had chosen to stay at Ft. Campbell, finish Eric's last 2 years in the Army, and not come to Germany, this day would be the day that Eric would deploy to Afghanistan for one full year. Clearly we made the right choice. No question about it.

I feel a little guilty from time to time, posting photos of our adventures in Europe, while our friends back in Tennessee & Kentucky are preparing for something unimaginably hard. We know we are so lucky. I am so happy that Eric never has to step one precious toe back in the Middle East. He served in Iraq for 6 months a couple years ago, and as far as I'm concerned that was 6 months too many.

So for the next year I plan on continuing our blog as per usual, but especially focusing on all the little things we would've missed out on if Eric had to deploy. I want to post a photo every couple days documenting a moment we wouldn't have had otherwise.

Here's what we would've missed today:

An impromptu cuddle-session when Eric was home on his lunch break.

Our thoughts are with the 101st Airbourne, the ARF (Eric's old platoon), and all other troops over there. Hope they all come safely home very soon.

Us Clarks plan on partying it up in a big way tonight.