Drum roll please...

and we're not moving. How anticlimactic!


All this wondering and stressing for nothing; we're staying where we are until next year.  It's very bittersweet; at first a little more bitter than sweet. We were definitely ready to move on and hoping to be a little closer to home; so it's a bit of a letdown.  However, the good news is I won't have the stress of PCS on my own and can just focus on a homecoming! We also might have a better chance to do a cross-country trip when we do move.

As a side note, has anyone ever driven as an option when moving? What was your experience? I'm wondering how that would work out for us. We would be driving literally cross-country.

Anyway, of course I made a list of some other benefits to staying around an extra year and it made me feel better. It’s certainly better than being sent somewhere we really didn’t want. We will have a chance to vacation more in the area and I can finish out my certification program I’m working on, among other things.
All things happen for a reason- a good motto for us in this aspect of military life.

Anxiously awaiting...

..our PCS orders!

We were originally scheduled to move in June of this year, but then came this deployment. Now we are moving as soon as my husband gets home. Although we are moving off cycle, my husband’s orders were supposed to be decided in February.

February came & went.
Then March 1st became the new cutoff date...nothing.
Now we hear all orders would be completed April 1st, so....?

I know I should be accustomed to this uncertainty by now. It's just that I will be responsible for the arrangements with my husband gone and would like to prepare myself (this is my 1st PCS & I'm a little nervous). Not to mention I just really want to know where we are going, because at this point it could be anywhere. Hopefully we'll have something by the end of this week.
I'm not holding my breath.