With only seven weeks left to live here in Europe, we have planned to go on one more trip. Drew was just able to find a really good deal on tickets that he just couldn't refuse. So we will be able to spend two nights and three days in Dublin, Ireland! I am so excited that we will be able to go. It is like one of those places that I've wanted to go since being here but didn't really know how possible it'd be.
We still have no idea on where we are going next. Drew feels that they are leaning towards (again) giving him Minot, ND for the next base. Now it has changed on how we will go thru with it, if Minot is the base. They don't even have room to house singles hardly and the group he will work with says that they don't even need him there. So if Minot is for him then this is how we will go about it. Of corse when we get to the States we are going to visit family for a few weeks.. Then Drew will head out to ND and Andrew and I will be staying with his mom. Just because there will be no where for Andrew and I to stay. Then maybe 6 months from then, or when it gets warmer there, Andrew and I will be able to go and join him there. But only if the housing situation is any better. Right now they just do not have to room for anyone.
We've talked and we have made this decission as a family. But after our 6 yrs in the Air Force is up we are getting out. And it is a scarey thing to even think about with how bad jobs are out there right now. But when we joined we were originally only going to do a few years anyway, just for the experience I guess. But this road that we have traveled down has been an amazing one and I would not change one single thing about it! We have met some of the best people and we have seen some of the places that people only dream of being able to see in their lifetime. I mean when you think about it, some people save up their whole life just to go to one of these places that we have been so blessed to go and see.
So with leaving the military in mind, I have been thinking about different things I could do to help out on saving and making money. After alot of thought and searching I have come up with a pretty good list of different things that I could look into doing while still being a stay at home mom.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Bad Editing... :D
Andrew has fallen asleep on his own like 3 days in a row for nap time! Now if I could just get him to do this for bed. haha. I will start on that when we move. But so far he sleeps in his own room now. And he will go to his room when he is ready for bed. This is a BIG change from where he was a month ago.
Yesterday during the evening prayer that we had, I could hear Andrew getting into something... Well when the prayer was over I had noticed the "beautiful" master piece in which he drew all over my living room, hallway, and kitchen walls in a broken red crayon. Obviously he had been working on this throughout the evening without me knowing. Well today I googled how to clean crayon drawings off of the walls and found it under a yahoo answers page. There was stuff listed like, "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser" (but I didn't want to have to go out and spend money that we don't have..) "baking soda and vinager".... But I saw one that said "babywipes" Seriously, could something that simple work?? Well, I gave it a try. And it came off soo easily! I could not believe it!! So I got busy and had all of the walls and cabinets cleaned in like 30 minutes. It was such a blessing! :)
I have just been having a hard time the past couple of days. Like today I feel like if I could have just a good cry that it'd help out, but I can't cry.. Oh well. I'm just really stressed with the move which is in November. They will come and pack our stuff up sometime in October I think. We have had the weirdest stuff happen to us since the first told us where we were going. First we were told that we were going to Minot, ND. Then a couple of weeks later they told us we got devirted. (Meaning not going there anymore) So we wait three weeks and Drew going into the office to check on it. They told him we are getting Minot. And he explained that we just got devirted from there. And they said we understand but thats what they gave you. So the people said they would call the people in Texas who make these arrangements for everyone. So we got devirted twice from Minot, ND! Now we are just waiting to find out where in the heck we will be going. I mean, we'd be fine with Minot and all but Drew will have to live in a dorm until we are able to get into housing, which has a 12 month waiting list. And it'd be fine and all but there is no where for Andrew and I, oh and our dog, to stay until we are able to join him in Minot. Both of our parents are already housing family and there is no room for us there, we can't rent a place not knowing how long we will need it for.... BLAH! Thats just how I feel. But like everything else, Drew and I will make it through this together as a family.
Yesterday during the evening prayer that we had, I could hear Andrew getting into something... Well when the prayer was over I had noticed the "beautiful" master piece in which he drew all over my living room, hallway, and kitchen walls in a broken red crayon. Obviously he had been working on this throughout the evening without me knowing. Well today I googled how to clean crayon drawings off of the walls and found it under a yahoo answers page. There was stuff listed like, "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser" (but I didn't want to have to go out and spend money that we don't have..) "baking soda and vinager".... But I saw one that said "babywipes" Seriously, could something that simple work?? Well, I gave it a try. And it came off soo easily! I could not believe it!! So I got busy and had all of the walls and cabinets cleaned in like 30 minutes. It was such a blessing! :)
I have just been having a hard time the past couple of days. Like today I feel like if I could have just a good cry that it'd help out, but I can't cry.. Oh well. I'm just really stressed with the move which is in November. They will come and pack our stuff up sometime in October I think. We have had the weirdest stuff happen to us since the first told us where we were going. First we were told that we were going to Minot, ND. Then a couple of weeks later they told us we got devirted. (Meaning not going there anymore) So we wait three weeks and Drew going into the office to check on it. They told him we are getting Minot. And he explained that we just got devirted from there. And they said we understand but thats what they gave you. So the people said they would call the people in Texas who make these arrangements for everyone. So we got devirted twice from Minot, ND! Now we are just waiting to find out where in the heck we will be going. I mean, we'd be fine with Minot and all but Drew will have to live in a dorm until we are able to get into housing, which has a 12 month waiting list. And it'd be fine and all but there is no where for Andrew and I, oh and our dog, to stay until we are able to join him in Minot. Both of our parents are already housing family and there is no room for us there, we can't rent a place not knowing how long we will need it for.... BLAH! Thats just how I feel. But like everything else, Drew and I will make it through this together as a family.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Update On Next Station Area
Well as I posted before we were supposed to be going to Minot in November, but we have been diverted. Apparently they do not want anymore families due to the housing situation. So now we are just waiting, like in the beginning. It has started all over again. And we heard that we could be going anywhere overseas or in the States, just waiting on an answer. That was about a week ago when we got diverted and they told us we should know where we will be going within a couple of days... well it has been a couple of days and still no answer. Any guesses? haha. I will just go out there and pick a random place... How about Moody AFB. We'll see.
This evening we are going to the movies as a family and seeing Cars 2. And then Saturday morning we will be leaving and heading out to Switzerland. This a chance that we may not get again. We are going to see another area in my husband's mission that he served before we met. And it will be Andrew's first time in Switzerland. Then on the way home we are stopping by his sister's base and seeing them. And from there we will go to Wharton Barracks in Heilbronn Germany. We will go there to take pictures for my Dad. He served in the army there from 67-70. And from there we will be returning home.
Yesterday we went to a kids' program that they had on the Spangdahlem Base. It was Sesame Street Live the show was brought to us by the USO. It was pretty awesome! Andrew really enjoyed it alot.
This evening we are going to the movies as a family and seeing Cars 2. And then Saturday morning we will be leaving and heading out to Switzerland. This a chance that we may not get again. We are going to see another area in my husband's mission that he served before we met. And it will be Andrew's first time in Switzerland. Then on the way home we are stopping by his sister's base and seeing them. And from there we will go to Wharton Barracks in Heilbronn Germany. We will go there to take pictures for my Dad. He served in the army there from 67-70. And from there we will be returning home.
Yesterday we went to a kids' program that they had on the Spangdahlem Base. It was Sesame Street Live the show was brought to us by the USO. It was pretty awesome! Andrew really enjoyed it alot.
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