THE CRISIS

                                                                                My name is Erin, and I am a military spouse                                                                                 mother of 3 with years of adulting under me                                                                                 so that....okay, no. That's not true. But it                                                                                         seems like all the military spouse blogs are                                                                                   of mothers with small children or champion                                                                                   women who have conquered the life for so                                                                                     long they just DIY everything with the spare                                                                                 time they don't have because they have                                                                                         attained supermom, superwoman status.

 

                                                                                As for me, I'm just a newly married person                                                                                   trudging through a 3 1/2 year clinical mental                                                                                 health counseling graduate program (you                                                                                       mean you're getting a master's and it's not just 2 years? Why yes, yes that is the case...) that WILL BE WORTH IT. I love it, but it sometimes seems awfully long. I don't have kids, and I don't have pets, and though I love DIY hypothetically, there's only so much a girl can do. My man is lucky I've learned to cook things since we've been married! And I'm actually quite proud of my culinary accomplishments, even if the sides generally come in a can.

 

My husband has been to Iraq, but the deployment coming up this summer 2016 will be the first one we will conquer as a couple. I'm nervous, scared, excited, and looking forward to a new outlet. This is particularly important since I am very much a verbal processor and am anticipating times during deployment and leading up to it when I may want to spill what I'm thinking and feeling when I'm sitting at home with a pile of papers to grade or a list of assignments to do or just a late-night, no-friend-readily-available-at-my-beck-and-call sort of night. Check out the intro post to learn about the name if you're curious, and welcome to the Crisis. :)