Resources for Soldier's spouses

I'm working on a blog for being a soldier's spouse. I'm trying to put up helpful information and resources in one location...it's barely started, but you can find it at http://learningtobeasoldierswife.wordpress.com/

The time is flying by....

I can NOT believe it is already the middle of February, 2012! We only have a little more than 3 months before our oldest graduates from high school! She has received her college acceptances, and some wonderful scholarship offers from most of the schools, but has now made up her mind...our little girl is going to be attending university in New York City! She was accepted at Fordham University and St John's University, and will be hearing from New York University on April 1. A change from the last few years when she was positive that she wanted to go to Catholic University in DC. She was accepted there and offered a great scholarship, but after a lot of thinking  and research, she has decided on St Johns or NYU. I'm so proud of her, but a touch sad that she is growing up so fast...and growing away! We've found out we are on definite orders to South Carolina this summer, so we'll be moving farther away from NYC, but we have confidence in her! And I'll enjoy visiting her in the city :)

Having a high school senior stress!!

Thanks goodness she's a great daughter! We are living, breathing, continuously talking SAT, GPA, transcripts, and college applications! She has applied to 5 so far, and has about 5 more on her list...received an acceptance and a very generous scholarship offer (Pretty awesome in about 2 weeks of time...thank goodness for priority apps), that I'm not able to talk about yet on facebook because she hasn't told her friends...Of course she did just receive it on Friday, so hopefully I can share the news soon :)

Working on graduation announcement ordering...so early in the year, but I guess time flies, and guest list for graduation party. We are combining our daughter's party with her best friends, so the two families are working together. 

I really hope to start blogging again. It helps to just get my thoughts out, but right now I can't even find the time to have thoughts!!

Hello from....Germany...oh wait, nope....hello from Virginia!

By now, I thought we would be in Germany. The kids would be attending an American school, and I would happily be shopping through all the fresh markets in our little village.

Well, that didn't happen, but not until after we had packed up our house, put our second car in storage, dis enrolled the kids from school, said all of our goodbyes, and set up to see family and friends before flying across the Atlantic.
I'm not sure of the details, and I probably never will be, but in the end after everything, the decision was made that there was not adequate medical support for my son. I really do not think he would have been the only diabetic in the military population of approx. 100,000, but oh what do I know???

To make a long story short, we had to come back to Virginia, and wait to get the Germany orders deleted completely so that my husband didn't have to go without us and wait for our new assignment....2 weeks later, they let us know that we can stay in Virginia, right in our same area until next summer!

By God's mercy, we were able to get a spot back for both children in their school and now my daughter gets to graduate with her class, and my son gets to attend high school where he has planned for the last 3 years, and we were able to get housing on the Air Force Base. Tuesday our house hold goods come back to us, with the exception of our Unaccompanied Baggage which is still in Germany for the time being!



Anyhow...wanted to do a quick update, and I look forward to catching up!

Final Pack-out Day

This is the 4th and final pack out day at our house. This afternoon, the rest of our household goods will be leaving in crates on a big 18 wheeler. I'm not expecting to see them again for a few months. We are moving in peak PCS season. We'll be staying at the base Inn for a few days, and then as we make our way south, we'll stop on the way for a few college tours, just to make sure that CUA is the right fit for my daughter. Hopefully all will go well and we will be flying out to Germany the first week of August.
I'll work better on updating and sharing pictures as we start our new adventure!

For all those going to the midnight premiere of Harry Potter 7-2, have a wonderful and safe time! The kids are going, while we use that time to finish cleaning after the movers have left!

heading out for a long weekend!

The kids and I are going to start driving today up to my sister's so that we can bring my Dad. We have found him what looks like it's going to be a great place for him. My husband will be following tomorrow with our pet, Lizzie. I know my sister is going to take care of her while we are gone...but it feels like we are leaving a member of the family :( It's the best for her though, she is so old that the overseas trip and the indefinite kennel would not be the best course for her.


On our way back, we are stopping for a night in DC and have an appointment to tour Catholic University of America and my daughter has an appointment with an admissions counselor. I can't believe we only have a few weeks left to get everything done!


Happy 4th of July!

Progress has been made! (sort of)

Well, we now have OFFICIAL orders, that show with dependents. It does not yet say concurrent travel, but we are hoping that changes next week. Since my husband does have orders, he has a transportation appointment this morning...which means we will know today when our household goods are getting packed up. I'm not sure yet if they will let us know about shipping our vehicle, or if that is a different department. I guess we'll know today!

In the meantime, I think I've gotten a pretty good list of what we'll be storing here during our time in Europe. All of our appliances, all boxes in storage shed, dining room furniture, extra car (with sister), extra sofa, computer desks (get rid of desktop computers).

I can't decide if I should take my stand mixer and plug into a transformer, or to purchase one over there so that it can be plugged in wherever....hmmm....decisions!

As things get into high gear, I hope to blog more about how things are going.