So we survived our first Christmas, our first New Years and we've had three whole weeks off work together - has been amazing. Now it all becomes very real all of a sudden that Tim leaves - soon, and for what feels like forever.

It now feels like it was months and months ago when Tim told me he was being deployed - so I have almost gotten to the stage where I wish he would just leave already as I figure the sooner he leaves, the sooner he will be home. I know the day he leaves all I will be wishing for is just one more hour with him - so perhaps I would be best to just enjoy each day we have now!!

One other thing that has changed since my last efforts on here is that Tim's brother Shane, who is in the Australian Navy, is also being deployed on the same trip as him. They won't be in the exact same place, but they'll both be on the other side of the world from the people that love them. Shane has a beautiful wife, Bianca - and a gorgeous little baby boy Cullen - so in the very least, we will have each other.

And now am sitting here, in our hammock out the front of our little oceanfront flat. . . . . talking to our friends and thinking how rubbish it is going to be with him gone. . . . . Boooooooo!!!!