My husband is our hero. In many more ways than the obvious.
There is no doubt, I’m blessed beyond belief to be married to a kick-butt guy who rocks my world on a daily basis, bakes ridiculously good bread and provides a near-constant flow of delicious hot beverages…but his profession most certainly complicates life a little.
My hubby has never worked a 9 to 5 job in the almost 10 years we’ve been married. And as odd as that may be, I kinda like it. Or at least I’ve grown to.
But let me be frank with you…being the wife of a State Trooper stinks sometimes. Really stinks.
And he’ll be the first to tell you…it takes a trooper to be married to a Trooper.
There are days I just have to breathe in, and breathe out, have the “at least he’s doing something he loves” conversation with myself, and push through.
Single mothers, I tip my hat. I have no idea how you do it. None what-so-ever.
I knew coming into this marriage, a decade ago, that the dream of this guy’s heart – since he was just 4 years old – was to be a Trooper with the Michigan State Police. And I knew, in theory, that our lives would never be the same if he pursued this dream. But what I didn’t know was just how long and lonely certain days (and nights) would be.
The divorce statistics within law enforcement marriages are startling. But sadly, not surprising.
This life can be downright brutal. It isn’t easy.
As Glennon so profoundly puts it…life is BRUTIFUL : brutal…and beautiful.
But…I love this life…our wild, crazy, unpredictable, nocturnal life. We truly do get spontaneity. We get unmet expectations. We get disappointments. All marriages and families deal with this stuff. But law enforcement families get to deal with it on a daily basis.
So we get to choose. Will we fight it and whine…or embrace it as our new normal?
We chose to embrace it. To celebrate it. And sure, sometimes we grit our teeth. And have intense fellowship. We talk it out and walk it out, and we try our darndest to squeeze every ounce of life out of this unusual life as possible. Because it’s glorious and messy and fun and hard, all wrapped into one.
At the end of the day, we are a family of heroes. Because this is the life we have chosen, this is a life we love, and this is a life we’re committed to living to the hilt…even on the tough, 7-hours-of-overtime, no-sleep-in-36-hours, missed the birthday party kind of days.
And because we’re in it for the long haul, so why not celebrate this unorthodox, unpredictable way of life?
This is a rare, “brutiful” life we live.
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