Today's Quote: "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Lesson Learned: The body remembers.
Woke up this morning curled up and wrapped around my cell phone. The fact that I sleep with my cell phone is not unusual - I am on call and first line of escalation at work - but I don't normally sleep wrapped around it, with it held tight against my heart. But I recognize this symptom - and I'm sure every wife of a deployed military man does, too - the phone becomes your connection to your man - and for the length of the deployment, you it will go everywhere with you. And it will not just go to the store with you, or sit on your night stand. It will sit on the sink while you wash dishes, follow you into the ladies' room, watch you bathe, and pull weeds in the garden with you (pulling weeds is good therapy, by the way)... So, I guess, my body decided in the night some time, that This Is The Beginning. I had forgotten this feeling of waking up wrapped around my cell phone - but when I woke this morning, it was all too familiar. It's been 5 years since DH was in Iraq - but my body remembered what to do, even though I had forgotten.
If nothing else gets paid on time, the cell phone will.
the cell phone was permanently attached to my ear during deployment. i totally know what you mean!
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