(This is a blog I started a while back and wanted to share with everyone. Coming Home actually contacted Kelli and I about my sister's story! It was awesome!!!)
My transition from California to Georgia put a toll on me. Dane was going to stay in California to see if he could continue to act and with our flight privlages we would be able to see each other anytime. Sounds easy, right? Not so much. Just that short time apart pushed me into having anxiety attacks and the strange thing about it was that I even got to see him a few days a month. He ended up moving back to Georgia (a good thing for his acting) and the attacks stopped (well slowed down until I figured out how to control them). I thought him wanting to be an actor was hard, what on earth would I do if he decided to join the military!!!!!
My sister may be the strongest person I have ever known!!! She is halfway through my brother-n-law's forth deployment, yes I said FORTH deployment, and she has not be admitted to the crazy farm (yet). I could not imagine having to be in a new location, with 3 kids, and a husband half a world away! And for an entire year!!! No thanks!!! So my younger sister and I got the great idea after watching a T.V. show on lifetime, Coming Home, to write to them about my sister. This is how much we love and admire our older sister!!! Enjoy and we love you, Kimmy!!!
Dear Coming Home Casting,
Our brother-n-law, 1st SGT Daniel Homan, is currently on a year
deployment to Afghanistan. He has been gone since September 2010. We
really want to surprise our sister who is one of the strongest women
we know. My sister and brother-n-law were high school sweethearts.
During their 17 years of marriage they have seen 3 children born, 6
states, and 4 deployments (3 to Iraq and this recent one to
Afghanistan).
Our sister is an incredibly amazing wife and mother. During his first
and second deployment to Iraq she cared for two children, she went
back to school and finished college, she held down a full-time job,
and had to mend to one of her children that had a partial leg
amputation a year after he was born. She never missed a beat. Life
continued to stay as normal as possible for her children even though
deep inside she was missing her soldier. One week before his 3rd
deployment she gave birth to their last child and then he was off to
Iraq for another nine months defending his country.
We are currently halfway through his 4th deployment. It has been 4
years since he was last deployed and their kids are now at the age
where having dad gone is difficult on them all. A new base, a new
state, a new community, and a new school. The oldest is missing his
dad and the youngest does not understand where daddy is. Yet our
sister remains to keep everyday life as normal as possible for their
children yet deep down she is missing her love, her soldier.
We are the sister-n-laws of the soldier. We think it would be a great
surprise to our sister and our nephews and niece if our brother-n-law
came home unexpectedly. After the year that she has endured being a
single mother of three, where days can be chaotic with school,
homework, and swim/baseball practice, we think nothing would be more
perfect than to give her a surprise of a lifetime. She is always
having to be the rock for us all and it would be great for us to give
something back to her.
Our brother-n-law, 1st SGT Daniel Homan, is currently on a year
deployment to Afghanistan. He has been gone since September 2010. We
really want to surprise our sister who is one of the strongest women
we know. My sister and brother-n-law were high school sweethearts.
During their 17 years of marriage they have seen 3 children born, 6
states, and 4 deployments (3 to Iraq and this recent one to
Afghanistan).
Our sister is an incredibly amazing wife and mother. During his first
and second deployment to Iraq she cared for two children, she went
back to school and finished college, she held down a full-time job,
and had to mend to one of her children that had a partial leg
amputation a year after he was born. She never missed a beat. Life
continued to stay as normal as possible for her children even though
deep inside she was missing her soldier. One week before his 3rd
deployment she gave birth to their last child and then he was off to
Iraq for another nine months defending his country.
We are currently halfway through his 4th deployment. It has been 4
years since he was last deployed and their kids are now at the age
where having dad gone is difficult on them all. A new base, a new
state, a new community, and a new school. The oldest is missing his
dad and the youngest does not understand where daddy is. Yet our
sister remains to keep everyday life as normal as possible for their
children yet deep down she is missing her love, her soldier.
We are the sister-n-laws of the soldier. We think it would be a great
surprise to our sister and our nephews and niece if our brother-n-law
came home unexpectedly. After the year that she has endured being a
single mother of three, where days can be chaotic with school,
homework, and swim/baseball practice, we think nothing would be more
perfect than to give her a surprise of a lifetime. She is always
having to be the rock for us all and it would be great for us to give
something back to her.
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