Long Over Due Update

I have moved away from blogging, I am definitely going to start blogging again.

So here it is, we moved, bought a house, and now we are settling in. My dearest husband is headed out for Iraq shortly. I can hardly believe we are in this place again.

I have set some goals for this next year. Weight loss is the most important, time to shed all this baby weight. I am also going to sit for the Georgia bar exam.

I contemplated buying an rv and traveling all over the country for the deployment, but I figured that was probably not such a good idea.

So we've decided to enroll H in private school, which was a huge decision for us, both of us being products of public education. I really think it is important with this deployment that H have a small class and a small school. I am hoping for lots of attention and love for him.

I am back, stay tuned!

We Bought a House

We took two trips down to our new duty station to house hunt, and last week we put an offer in. Our builder countered our offer by going down a thousand, so we countered his counter by going up a thousand. Apparently he was stunned, his words, that we'd countered. So stunned that he accepted our counter.

So now we are jumping through all the hoops to get the paperwork filled out. It is very exciting, a little nerve wracking, but exciting. On post housing was pretty bad, just like Fort Sill, but closer together and the houses were really run down and people's things were spilling out of the houses.

Off post living here we come!!

Huge Smell

C was running around very stinky, you would have thought that he had a massive load, but instead it was this teeny tiny turd. Huge smell, small poop, that seems to be his calling card. Stinky Stinky Stinky.

The Bar

I am going insane waiting for the results from the Virginia Bar Exam. I don't know what I will do if I don't pass. At least I can drink something this time if I didn't pass.

Cleaning

I am trying to clean and organize before this next move. I want to invite people over and not freak out when people knock on the door!!! I will tackle this disaster. I spent hours cleaning up the play room today. I threw four bags of trash out and I have a huge pile of things for either a yard sale or the thrift shop.

We will maintain this, I am going to label the drawers and bins so the kids can put things back where they belong!!!

There is so much to do!!!

I'm Back

So last week was an insane week. I drove to Norfolk to sit for the bar exam. My Mom met me there so she could watch P. I ran upstairs to our hotel room so I could feed P and cram a little before the next session. As soon as the exam was over I jumped in the car and drove down to Fort Stewart to house hunt. I stayed in six different hotels and looked at close to 2 dozen houses. I also drove around on post trying to decide if we could live in a cramped dark house again. The housing on Stewart is just like the housing on Fort Sill. I met with a builder who can build us a lovely 5 bedroom 3 bathroom house. I just can't decide if we are ready or if the market is ready for us to take the plunge.

It will be a little hard to go live on post after seeing a beautiful house with a laundry room with space for a second refrigerator. Large and lovely or small and dark, why are we even thinking twice??

Merry Christmas