As for your questions in PM, will try to remember them well enough to answer...
DH is stationed at Langley, in VA. He's a Major in the Air Force, has 6 years left. But meanwhile, we were hoping for a station that would put him in Texas again. Just found out that's not going to happen and he will pretty surely be in VA for at least another year and a half.
I'd pretty much decided I'd petition the custody court to move me and James out there with him, but after discussing it last night, we are back to uncertainty on that. His deployment window is coming up and we're nervous that we'll get us out there only to have him deploy and then I'll be stranded in VA, days away from the solid infrastructure I have here.
Basically, it's a dang mess, but it's life in the military and how it goes. This is why people thank him for his service on Veteran's Day. It isn't ideal, but it isn't impossible either...
As to how often we see each other, pretty much every chance we get which is about once a month.
Used to be two weekends a month until James started school and it got too hard to fly out Friday after 6 when he goes to his Dad's and be back before 6 on Sunday when he comes home. Too expensive to only get one day together.
And how we make it work? Honestly, I have no idea. I am as surprised as the next person that it's held up so well. We wanted to marry before he moved to VA, but knew he would have to go and I couldn't go along. So, we didn't get engaged. We both assumed it would die out over the distance. But it didn't. After we realized it was still going plenty strong after a year, we got engaged. Then he deployed and we were fearful that losing the long talks and constant communication would kill it. But it didn't. He came back and we set in earnest to planning the wedding.
After the wedding was over, we finally both agreed that it was just going to last and we should finally just accept that we were among the lucky ones who had something strong enough for the distance. Here we are, two and a half years later, hanging tough.
We talk, text, facetime and skype like it's each of our 2nd jobs and generally spend 2-3 hours together rehashing every detail of our days so it seems a little less like the other is missing anything.
We love AT&T for letting us talk & text unlimited, obviously.
Not sure how we'd make it in the days of 15 cent a minute, long-distance, land lines being our only choice... Now the running joke is, "I wonder if we'd be able to make it last if we were actually in the same house?!?"
Funny how we were once so terrified of being apart and now our biggest fear is whether or not we can share the same house!
) DH is great a what he does and we are a great team. I am very proud of him/us. Its not always easy, but we are very blessed to be doing well in this economy. Tonight we are taking our employees and spouses out to dinner to celebrate our 2 years in business anniversary and an early holiday party. It awesome that we hit the million dollar mark so we can celebrate that too. 
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