A Pretty (Hot) Package

I'm not going to lie to you, the first time I saw Stonewall in his Army uniform, my knees went weak, my heart started beating faster, and...well, I don't think I need to tell you what happened next. (If you're a military spouse, you know what happens next.)

There has always been a fascination with men (or women, if you're a man) in uniform. If you're a Cosmopolitan magazine reader than you know that 75% of men and 66% of women fantasize about the opposite sex in uniform. I'm sure for different people its different uniforms. I can't deny that I've been known to salivate (just a little) over Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon in A Few Good Men, Jake Gallenhaal in Jarhead, and ALL the guys in Blackhawk Down.

So when Stonewall first told me he was in the Army, I got all giggly. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a man who puts his life on the line, has a sense of honor very few have and can do it all looking mighty fine in his uniform. Stonewall is a good looking man all on his own. You add the uniform and I'm a puddle. Granted, I never actually saw Stonewall in his uniform until he stepped off the plane when he came home for leave (OK, so maybe the whole "you know what happened next..." part wasn't entirely based on the uniform, but it certainly played a part), but that did not stop my imagination from running.

Now I get to see him in his uniform everyday! Every morning he puts on his uniform and I can't help but kiss him goodbye like he is leaving for a deployment again. I would rip his uniform off right then and there, but that damn belt makes that pretty much impossible. (They did NOT take this kind of thing into account when they designed the belt. Or else they did take it into account and were trying to protect the soldiers from hot-blooded women like myself by creating a military-style chastity belt.)

While I married Stonewall because of who he is inside and the kind of person he is and strives to be, the uniform is certainly a lovely way to package it all up.