I’m so proud of my husband for serving our country and passionately support him and the troops.  But being a military wife is very hard sometimes!  It gets very lonely and frustrating, and I really miss my husband when he is away.  A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine (also a military wife) told me about a site she’d found about tear bottles.  She raved about them, but I had never heard of them and decided to look into what they were.  Turns out tear bottles or tear catchers, are delicate little bottles designed for holding and celebrating the tears of your life!  This immediately appealed to me.  I’m an emotional creature and even more so since my husband joined the military.  And when I read that tear catchers were once used by women who watched their husbands sail away to battle or leave for wars back in the 1900s, it really hit home.  I simply had to have one!

I browsed through the Enchanted Tear Catchers website and found a beautiful, turquoise ceramic bottle that seemed to call to me.  The color reminded me of the color Mike and I painted the kitchen in our first apartment and the sparkling amethysts were my birthstone.  So naturally, I snatched it up.  When I received it in the mail a few days later, I opened the gift wrapped box and immediately started crying!  It was so beautiful!  But I wasn’t just crying because of that.  I was crying, because I just missed my husband so much!  And I wanted him to know it.  I finally had a way to express how much he is loved in addition to the letters and care packages I send him.  

When Mike comes home from Afghanistan next month, he’ll truly be able to see how much I love, treasure, miss, and support him when he sees this beautiful tear vial filled with my tears; tears of love, longing, joy, memories, and happiness upon his return.  This tear catcher expresses so much more than my words alone.

Also, when he comes home I’ll have another special surprise for him…Mike’s going to be a daddy!  Looks like I won’t be the only one cherishing my tear catcher.  (He’s an emotional soul too!)

Thank you!