Army mum’s sacrifice I MAKE MY KIDS PROUD
Megan Elmiger still gets teary-eyed thinking about her surprise reunion with her children in April this year.
As a Lieutenant Colonel in the New Zealand Army, the mother-of-five had been away in Juba, South Sudan, facing danger and violence – and fighting her own personal battle against Covid-19 – for five long months.
During her deployment, Megan had missed her brood every day and now that she was home for a well-deserved break, she couldn’t wait to give them the surprise of their lives.
“Look! There’s the nanny,” her husband Lieutenant Colonel Bevan Elmiger exclaimed as he and the kids went for an autumn walk at Auckland’s Panmure Basin.
But instead of the new babysitter the children had been told they were going to meet, there was Megan, crying tears of joy.
Not many mothers would volunteer for a job involving months away from their children. But it’s those precious moments, reuniting
