OK, so it's been forever since I have been on here and I know that my blog has been totally neglected. In my defense, the last few months have been pretty crazy. Hubby came home from Korea at then end of June just in time for our anniversary. I was very excited to have him home again but then things started to get very busy. We spent the 4th of July visiting my family and then the rest of July and August were spent frantically trying to figure out what we would do come the end of August when Hubby ETSed from the active duty army.
We were hoping that that Hubby would be offered a job outside of the military before the end of August but this was not to be so, we went for plan B - move in with my parents for a few months while Hubby continues the job search. We had to be out of our house on post on Hubby's exact ETS date and housing was less than flexible in helping us coordinate the move so it was a bit of a frantic month trying to make all of the arrangements.
Two days before Hubby's ETS, the Jonas Brothers came to pack up our house and prepare all of our things for storage. No, I am not kidding, that was the name of the moving company. The Irony was not lost on me and May agreed that it was a bit humorous. Thank God for little moments like that or I might have lost my mind. On a side note in case you were wondering, the army provides us 6 months of storage while we are "in transition." We continue to pray that Hubby finds a job before then. So anyway.... it took two days for the movers to pack up and then empty our house. It was quite the experience since half of the information that we had been told prior to moving day turned out to be wrong. For example. the moving company had told us that we needed to purchase our own washer bolts which we frantically ordered online with rush delivery to get them in time only to discover that the army had paid the moving company to provide them for us. AWESOME... NOT. This was just one of a laundry list of things that we were misinformed about. The movers made a complete mess of the house and one of the female packers even left used feminine products on my bathroom sink... yeah thanks for that. Can you say gross? I mean yeah I understand that she needed to use the bathroom but she could have picked up after herself. Whatever happened to common courtesy?
Needless to say we survived and after the truck left we packed all of the remaining items into our already pretty loaded down car. Choosing what to take with us for an indefinite amount of time and what to send to storage was not an easy task and we could only hope that we had chosen well. After living out of our suitcases for the last couple months I can say that we did OK but its hard not being able to have all of our things. After packing up the car we spent the night scrubbing the house down from the movers mess. I had cleaned the whole house prior to their arrival but after they left you could barely tell. Thank goodness for May who let me borrow her vacuum.
So that pretty much brings us up to the present. We have been living at my parents while Hubby job searches and I have been working as a substitute again. Hubby has become a "weekend warrior" with the reserves so he won't be completely done with the army for another few years. We are crossing our fingers and praying that a job comes along for him soon but we are trying very hard to be patient.... not always an easy feat. I am taking things week by week and at times day by day. I will try to update here more often but no promises. I miss all of you (friends who are reading this) so drop me a line and let me know how you are!