Not one that I am proud of in any way, but I do believe this is the longest I have ever gone without updating Breezy. This has been quite a month though and when I have had down time I have been self indulgent. It's either that or lose my sanity.
To start with, Mike called me a few weeks ago as Sawyer and I were gathering items off the shelves of Target (it doesn't matter what you go in for- Natural Peanut Butter in our case- the lure of Target is very strong). Without warning he explained to me that the Army was not letting us move Ellyn to Kansas. We had a very good possibility of getting Ft. Lewis in Washington but that I would probably be making that move alone while he stayed here for several months and finished his schooling here, and then, instead of school in Kansas for 10 mos. he would be going to a school in Georgia for four. This would mean 7 mos. apart, with a few breaks, since the house we are in now is being sold and we need to be out mid June at the latest. Plus, we need to find a house and get the girls set up in school before the 2011/2012 school year begins. Follow all that? I know it isn't the smoothest. I'm not making any more effort to make it clear. Well, I'm pretty sure my cashier at Target was about to call an ambulance as I stood in line trying to take deep breaths and not completely freak out in the middle of the second greatest store on Earth.
I have mixed feelings about our upcoming move. Am I excited to be near family and old friends, go back to my roots, stay stabilized for several years in an area I absolutely love? Yes. I am not anxious to be by myself again. Mike and I had debated me staying with the kids in Carmel while he went on to Kansas and we had both determined that we were not going to voluntarily separate ourselves. The Army does that enough for us. I also know that even on my worst days I can rely on evenings with my sweetheart. Not to mention another driver, babysitter, cook, disciplinarian, shopper, etc... in our very hectic lives. So I'm a little scared and exhausted just thinking about it. Jane will be an early morning seminary student and in high school and I know how worthless I became at that point in my life (Jane, not because you are worthless, just too busy to be of much help). I am also not a fan of being cold and rain for days and days on end. I also don't know that I am have the moving bug out of me and my gut feeling is that once we get up there we will somehow be there for good. I don't know. But... I'm cautiously excited.
Jane is thrilled, Shyah, her best friend from Germany, will be up there and goes to school in the school district we want to move into. The two girls text every day and Shyah's best friend up there is moving and so I think the girls will have no problem picking up where they left off.
I know there is other news. That is the biggest though. A few other notable mentions- after listening to Jane practice her song to try out for the school musical her new music teacher asked why she wasn't in the chamber choir (group of about 12 girls), Jane explained this was her first year singing and she wasn't really even supposed to be in the advanced choir but because she did band and read music her old music teacher (retired at Christmas and moved to Boise) had let her in. The new music teacher talked to the rest of Chamber Choir, got the okay, and asked if Jane would please join. As you may imagine, Jane is thrilled. She is now doing Chamber Choir and she is one of five singing narrators for Aladdin. Between that and her now very busy friend social life the girl is a regular teenager (on Sunday she gets only herself ready and is still the last one to the van, I believe that is what makes it official). We are pretty excited for her!
Mike is doing major work on his Thesis. This last week we saw him a bit because it was the start of a new quarter and things hadn't piled on yet, but the weeks before that we barely caught a glimpse of him. It was kind of sad.
Okay, I have to go wake up Sawyer for preschool, but I had to get at least part of this posted. I still have Adam and Mindi's trip to cover and Ellie's sassy new pixie cut that I gave her last night and Sadie's parent teacher conference to cover, etc... Yeah, those are reminders for me!
To start with, Mike called me a few weeks ago as Sawyer and I were gathering items off the shelves of Target (it doesn't matter what you go in for- Natural Peanut Butter in our case- the lure of Target is very strong). Without warning he explained to me that the Army was not letting us move Ellyn to Kansas. We had a very good possibility of getting Ft. Lewis in Washington but that I would probably be making that move alone while he stayed here for several months and finished his schooling here, and then, instead of school in Kansas for 10 mos. he would be going to a school in Georgia for four. This would mean 7 mos. apart, with a few breaks, since the house we are in now is being sold and we need to be out mid June at the latest. Plus, we need to find a house and get the girls set up in school before the 2011/2012 school year begins. Follow all that? I know it isn't the smoothest. I'm not making any more effort to make it clear. Well, I'm pretty sure my cashier at Target was about to call an ambulance as I stood in line trying to take deep breaths and not completely freak out in the middle of the second greatest store on Earth.
I have mixed feelings about our upcoming move. Am I excited to be near family and old friends, go back to my roots, stay stabilized for several years in an area I absolutely love? Yes. I am not anxious to be by myself again. Mike and I had debated me staying with the kids in Carmel while he went on to Kansas and we had both determined that we were not going to voluntarily separate ourselves. The Army does that enough for us. I also know that even on my worst days I can rely on evenings with my sweetheart. Not to mention another driver, babysitter, cook, disciplinarian, shopper, etc... in our very hectic lives. So I'm a little scared and exhausted just thinking about it. Jane will be an early morning seminary student and in high school and I know how worthless I became at that point in my life (Jane, not because you are worthless, just too busy to be of much help). I am also not a fan of being cold and rain for days and days on end. I also don't know that I am have the moving bug out of me and my gut feeling is that once we get up there we will somehow be there for good. I don't know. But... I'm cautiously excited.
Jane is thrilled, Shyah, her best friend from Germany, will be up there and goes to school in the school district we want to move into. The two girls text every day and Shyah's best friend up there is moving and so I think the girls will have no problem picking up where they left off.
I know there is other news. That is the biggest though. A few other notable mentions- after listening to Jane practice her song to try out for the school musical her new music teacher asked why she wasn't in the chamber choir (group of about 12 girls), Jane explained this was her first year singing and she wasn't really even supposed to be in the advanced choir but because she did band and read music her old music teacher (retired at Christmas and moved to Boise) had let her in. The new music teacher talked to the rest of Chamber Choir, got the okay, and asked if Jane would please join. As you may imagine, Jane is thrilled. She is now doing Chamber Choir and she is one of five singing narrators for Aladdin. Between that and her now very busy friend social life the girl is a regular teenager (on Sunday she gets only herself ready and is still the last one to the van, I believe that is what makes it official). We are pretty excited for her!
Mike is doing major work on his Thesis. This last week we saw him a bit because it was the start of a new quarter and things hadn't piled on yet, but the weeks before that we barely caught a glimpse of him. It was kind of sad.
Okay, I have to go wake up Sawyer for preschool, but I had to get at least part of this posted. I still have Adam and Mindi's trip to cover and Ellie's sassy new pixie cut that I gave her last night and Sadie's parent teacher conference to cover, etc... Yeah, those are reminders for me!
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