Introduction

As the wife a US Marine and the mother of three, two who have the diagnosis of autism, my life is far from normal or easy. In the eight years I have been married to my husband this is our second deployment, but the first since having any of our children. I knew this was going to be different then our last deployment with the fact that now I have my three little blessings to take care of instead of just myself. Throw in the fact that two of them are autistic and that makes things even more difficult. It is hard enough telling a child that their daddy has to leave and you don't really know when they will be back and you won't be able to see them or even talk to them every day, but with an autistic child it takes it to a whole other level. My boys may be 6 and 4 but developmentally they are younger then that. They don't comprehend or even process things the same as their "normal" counter parts do. This blog is my way of getting out my frustrations, away to vent and relieve some of the day to day stress that my family is dealing with during this deployment. In the end my husband will make it home and we will be a whole family again.