Three words you never want to hear from you spouse, I am deploying.When I heard these words from my husband, I was in total denial; something will happen, and he won’t have to go.But something didn’t happen, and he did go.I had three children three and under when he left for a year.It was the hardest thing I have ever done.There are somethings that I did to prepare for the deployment that made things a little better.



Photos Everywhere – my kids were too young to understand that their daddy was going to be leaving and they wouldn’t see him for a year.Time doesn’t really mean anything to kids when they are that young.So, what could I do to help them understand that their daddy loved them even though he couldn’t be with them?I made prints of pictures of them with their daddy.I put them up all over the house, so they would see him. My youngest was only 5 months old when my husband deployed.I especially wanted him to see pictures of his daddy so he would recognize him because he had seen h…