I was getting impatient as I watched the last guy from Dave's team walk through the doors. Yet undressing for that first time was always cautious and exciting at the same time.Īs I watched the men file off the plane I couldn't figure out why Dave wasn't the first one off. Yet all we craved was to be in each others arms and lay in bed for days on end catching up and not wanting to go anywhere. Dave had to decompress from a lifestyle that he had lived that wasn't anything close to normal and with each deployment I became more independent and good at being alone. A nervousness about undressing and laying together because with each deployment we changed a little. There was a nervousness about being together again. It was more like the movie portrayed and I loved that. You would think you would just strip and jump into bed, but it wasn't like that. It was always a little awkward when he would return from deployments. I waited patiently and nervously for Dave to walk through the doors. One by one men in uniform filed off the plane. The teams' wives and children waited patiently in the receiving area where the guys would get off the military plane they returned home on.
It was stretchy and form fitting and thought it would bring the most shock from my 8 month belly when he walked off the plane. I remember buying a tight long dress from A Pea in the Pod. The 4 months finally passed and it was time for his homecoming. I took pictures each week of the 'bump'…documenting it and keeping Dave updated through snail mail and phone calls that he would sneak from the 'comm' closet that he had been given a key to since I was pregnant.
A belly the shape of a basketball with a growing baby in there waiting to hear the voice of her daddy. He would come home to a body he wouldn't recognize. I wanted him to watch my growing belly but instead he was deploying to Kuwait. I didn't want him to miss all the firsts that were yet to come. I didn't want to be alone for my first pregnancy. His team was leaving on a commercial plane instead of a military plane so we went and stayed the night in a hotel before he left in Philadelphia. Dave was finalizing packing his gear for his 4 month deployment to Kuwait. I was hanging my head in the hotel bathroom toilet. I was 4 months pregnant with our first child.
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