My friend Hartley is an upcoming artist and she painted some pictures that depicted her feelings while our husbands were deployed last year. She had them displayed at The Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene. It was a great show and helped to educate non-military people on our lives as military spouses.
The two prints that I chose to purchase are titled "I'm Blue because the Green is Gone" and "I will not Fall Apart Today". These seemed to really remind me how I felt while Chris was gone.
The blue painting is about the day that the guys left. We come home and put up their green flight suits and hope to pull them back out in 4 or 5 months. You would think that we would not miss washing and hanging up those silly suits that take up the whole laundry basket. Amazingly you miss the green.
The next painting has "I will not fall apart today" written on a chalkboard. Man is that not the theme while they are gone. Especially since everything goes wrong the second they leave. There were many days that I told myself , "I will not fall apart".
I have not decided where I will hang them in my home and am sure I will be doing a lot of explaining what they mean but that is okay because it just helps me to remember to encourage my other friends whose husbands are gone right now while Chris is home.
