all the time.
We are a deployable force and we know that
and it's really, really difficult psychologically
to sort of adjust to that
and I find it's not just me,
there's a lot of mums around me
who are fellow serving women.
It's the one biggest thing that I think
is hardest for us
is being away from your children for four months,
six months, and with them,
depending on what age they are,
'cause if they're older sometimes,
it's easier to understand,
you can FaceTime, you can Skype
but when you have a two, three year old,
sometimes they don't why they can only see their mom
through a screen
and that's really hard
but otherwise I think we face
the same challenges any other working mother does
because it feels like you have two full-time jobs
because most days I'll come from,
my husband does very long days
'cause he's an engineer, he does shift work,
so most days actually I drop my kids to school
and I'll pick them up
and your life just never stops.
You drop them off and it's hard work
getting out the house with two children on time
and get them away and get to work
and then you come back and you pick them up
and they're tired and they need their baths
and they need their dinner
and it's just exhausting
but I wouldn't change it for the world.
