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A photo catches your eye while mindlessly scrolling through your social media account. It is a pair of military boots nestled near a doorway with the caption ‘boots in the house’. You most likely saw several during the holiday season. Or could it be that you were the one making the post?
What is the significance of these posts?
I can tell you from personal experience when those boots are in my house, there isn’t much that can bother me.
The phrase ‘boots in the house’ can be used in celebration of an active-duty soldier’s return home after an extended period of being either deployed or at their duty station. Parents take pictures of those military boots near the doorway as a sigh of relief, a cheer of joy, a whoop whoop!
Our child is home again.
It means their parent’s heart is full and bursting at the seams. We can sleep soundly knowing our child is under our roof, if only temporarily. These boots stand for tears shed, hugs missed, and time lost without them as they fulfill their career in the most amazing military in the world.
The first Christmas my son came home after his stint in basic training for the Air Force, I could NOT take enough photos of his boots under my tree. Every angle was shot, every filter was used, and these photos will remain on my phone (and in the elusive cloud) in perpetuity. I realize it seems overboard, but those are the memories that propel me forward on those days I miss him so much that only a good cry, an alcoholic drink, and pictures of his boots in our house will suffice.
So, if on those nights when there is no one in the extra bedroom to peek in on, there is no wet towel on the bathroom floor and no one to wake for school, I encourage you (just as I have) to look forward to the next time those boots are in this house.
