reputation........

Last night was our first Girl Scout meeting....I am now the new leader of the Kindergarten troop (this should be interesting!) Seeing how I have not a crafty bone in my body! It looks like I will have great assistants. The mommies are conversing amongst ourselves and I happened to make a comment about being busier than I needed to be. Since my husband is deployed and I have three small children and I am trying to get my Avon business up and running. Well another mother makes the comment, "well now that you are busier, your husband can be reassured that you won't have time to be out there messing around." REALLY??? So that is the reputation us Army wives have....sadly there is so much truth to that. How sad is that? When I tell people that my husband is deployed people don't wonder if I am sad that my husband is gone, they assume that I am probably having an affair while he is off fighting in a foreign country. While I know it happens, I have seen it happen to both Soldiers deployed and in Garrison, it is still sad that that is the conclusion strangers come to. It is offending to say the least.
(sn: would anyone like to adopt my dogs??? LOL)
I want to interview the next woman that finds herself in a torrid affair.....The main question is: How do you have time to have an affair, while your spouse is deployed?? There are days that I brush my teeth at 11 am because I can't remember if I brushed them when I got out of bed!!!!! My day starts at 6 am. Kids have to be woken up, breakfast served, lunches made, hair to be combed, then it is everyone in the car, a drive to school, back home to clean up the kitchen, fix lunch, laundry, vacuuming, scrub bathrooms, more laundry, toys to be picked up, Avon to be delivered, fold some laundry, iron, and in all that mess there is a small boy to tend to. That is not counting volunteer hours spent out of the home or outings with friends or the yard work that has to be done. Do people that have affairs have better time management or do they just have skewed priorities??
Unfortunately this reputation will continue until Army Wives themselves step up and show the world that they are better than that!! Alas....guess I will chalk it up to getting to know the mommies in my Girl Scout troop!!!