Jonny Goes Organic: Welcome Home Lieutenant!

He's Home!!!

So, I've been a little M.I.A. this week, but for really great reason. I am thrilled to finally announce that the love of my life, Lieutenant Jonathan Roberts is finally home from nearly 11 months of military deployment. (YAY!!!) I've been busy cleaning and reorganizing our home, preparing welcome home signs and outfits, working full-time through the distraction and excitement (or at least trying to), and finally meeting him at the Armory, brining him home and spending lots of time catching up! It has been an emotional week, or weeks if you count those leading up to it, or even months if you count the 11 for which we've been separated. I wanted to share this experience with you though, because its a great example of life needing to go on despite of, or maybe better put, amidst, your new lifestyle. 

Change throws us all off - it can be extremely positive and rewarding but it can also be very difficult, especially at first. Whether it's losing a job or starting a new one, having house-guests, experiencing an injury or diagnosis, relocating - it will toss a monkey wrench into your path and it is up to you to navigate around it (the monkey wrench - not the change itself!). As the weeks and days inched closer to his return, I was [warmly] bombarded with texts, calls and emails all pretty much saying the same thing "How exciting!!". You know, in a perfect world or episode of "I'm Coming Home", yeah, it would be pure joy and anticipation. That's what we'd all like to imagine, hell, that's what I imagined every day leading up to it. But, I have to tell you - it was more like a ride on a really rocky wooden roller coaster.

Jonny Goes Organic

There is something more personal I would like to share with you. The love of my life, 1LT Jonathan Oliver Roberts, has been deployed to the Middle East since last Fall. He is my biggest supporter and my hero and I am both incredibly grateful for his love and support and proud of his commitment and accomplishments. AND I am elated to announce that he coming home very soon! 

Thanks to technology, Jon has been able to follow along with my journey and my progress from across the globe. After hearing me talk endlessly about the dangers hiding in our food system and witnessing the results of my lifestyle change, he is eager to educate himself and begin his own journey to set us both up for the fullest, healthiest life we can have together. This makes me very, VERY happy! This is a man who, when I first met him, nearly needed to be be force-fed vegetables. So, for my research, experience and blabbering to open his eyes and have him want to make such a change is really a testament to the power of spreading awareness!