I swear every year that I can going to keep up with a personal blog and then life happens and yeah I forget, but with the change in the winds of life recently I figured it might be a good idea to get my thoughts out instead of having them swirl around like a tilt a whirl.
I will start with a little back story. Our precious daughter will be starting Kindergarten soon. As a parent, her education to me is one of the most important things I worry about. She has always excelled beyond my imagination. This is why since we moved down to Gulfport, we have paid for private Montessori preschool for her. I have never once felt bad for working hard to pay for it. While not everybody can do this, I consider myself blessed that I have been able to. There have been many sleepless nights lying in bed worrying about what to do for the fall as from my personal opinion, the public school system down here is inadequate and antiquated. Her daddy and I decided private school would have to continue for her but with a larger price tag and with him retiring next year, wondering where she would be when we return home. There were way too many concerns with transferring from one state to another education wise.
Anybody who knows me, knows Texas is the final destination. We threw around the idea that it maybe we should buy a house and enroll our little girl in school in Texas before his official retirement. While I wasn't thrilled Geobaching as we avoided this forever, our only daughter was worth the sacrifice. Now while we knew that Texas would be home, the city was a heated discussion for us. We needed a place that provides good education, places for employment for the hubby, and not the middle of a major metropolis. Returning to my hometown was dismissed, Corpus Christi where the hubby and I met is too far away from everybody, and anywhere near a military installation was a no go for the hubby. While a lot of military personal retire near one, he decided he is done with that chapter and doesn't want to see it everyday. I honestly didn't care either way, I just want him happy.
So over the Christmas holidays, our little girl came down with hand, foot, and mouth. That virus is the worse thing for a child to go through and I truly would not wish that on my worst enemy. As I was couch bound with my little girl trying to comfort her, the hubby showed me a picture of a house for sale around the Montgomery area. We had discussed that putting lily in school around there might be the best and we are lucky enough to have friends in the school district who highly recommend it for excelled kiddos.
My random request for information on homes in Montgomery Texas from a realtor on Zillow ended up turning in two weekends of house hunting followed by finding our forever home. The VA loan process is stressful, tedious, and long, but its doable and worth it (again my opinion). We are currently about to close on the house next Tuesday which seems so surreal to me that this part of our lives is about to end. When I married the hubby almost 12 years ago, retirement seemed like a distant dream. In 12 years, I got my bachelors degree, moved to three different cities, lived in six different houses, got a job, and had a baby. The thought of being a normal family doesn't seem real to me. All I know are PCSing, orders, deployments, good byes, long hours, living away from our families, ship schedules, 3:00am phone calls from overseas, and many sleepless nights wondering how the hell I would get through another day. How we will as a family handle the transition? That question will be addressed in my blogs over the course of the next few years. While he is still a year and half away from the big day, there is so much that happens in the months before and after.
This blog is for my sanity and for others who like me with ride these crazy waves. Hopefully this will help me as well as others since time truly does fly.
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