Okay, okay, so it’s really called Operation: Love Reunited or OpLove for short.
I came across this website my doing what I do best – Googleing!
If something on a website can make me cry, it’s gotta be worth doing or buying whatever they tell me to. then again I have been quite the softy lately. But I sat next to my husband, laptop on my well, lap. As I was showing him the photos, awaiting his approval, tears streamed from my eyes as I choked back sniffles and sobs. This was big. This was important. This was helping someone love, helping someone connect, and most importantly helping someone remember. I HAD to do this!
I applied on, coincidentally, Independence Day and I just got an email back informing me of my acceptance into the program.
— What is it? What is it?! I hear ya!!
It is a very very cool program that honors our service members who deploy and leave their husbands, wives, sons, daughters, unborn children, everything they know – behind. I could not even begin to imagine how hard it would be to not see my children’s faces every morning. Let alone be half way around the world in a hot & sandy war zone. Not even knowing if I’ll ever kiss my babies to sleep again.
—But, What is it??!!
I will donate my services to a family who’s parent or child or fiance or spouse who is preparing for deployment. I will document this time for the family, at the home, at the airport, the hugs, the tears, the sadness, the fear.
Or if they have already been deployed I will document home life of the family waiting for their loved one to return home. I will have an album made and send it to the solider.
Included in this they will also receive a Returning Home session. This will document all the excitement, tears, hugs, kisses, the exhaustion, and the relief. Kids running to hug Mommy. Daddy holding his new baby for the very first time.
I am so honored to be a part of this & cannot wait to get my first call from a Ft.Knox or Ft.Campbell family! I feel truly privileged to be asked to capture this intimate, private, and RAW moments. Please, forgive if I cry along with you.
The entire time I am typing this post an image keeps flashing in my head. I pray that I am fortunate enough to capture an image half as stunning as this American classic:
Okay – so she was a random nurse and he was a random sailor and it was a parade in NYC and she had no idea who this dude was. Just pretend, okay? CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY
